Paris Olympic Build: Halfway There (Episode 8)

[@LinkletterRory]

The Math just ain’t mathin’

[@AndrewStorerDP]

It does if you’re fast enough 💪🏼

[@therealroach1112]

8 x 8 got me cracking

[@kjerstenkipp1154]

It’s that running math- running math is hard.

[@markolim8938]

"World class athletes but worst communicators"... That's why people love this series, they dont try to be anything too fancy, just authentic pure hard work. Hard to find these days

[@leRollingBacon]

But the Mantz sure is Mantzin 🔥😮‍💨

[@srikalyanp]

What hits me with this episode is that despite you and Mantz being legendary athletes, from what you wear to the doc visits and everything else is so identifiable and relatable to even ordinary marathoners like me. This relatability and connection is something I miss with any other sport, which is what makes the sport of Marathon so unique. You are awesome Clayton, good luck to both of you rest of the way for buildup

[@_Clayton_Young_]

We're just normal dudes. Thanks for cheering us on!

[@AndreasKriswanto1989]

Spot on! Go watch the Gala diner on the previous episode before this, you’ll see Mantz wearing suit with his GPS watch on his wrist, that’s so me! 😂

[@AndrewStorerDP]

Longest episode yet, enjoy !

[@_Clayton_Young_]

This one is for the true fans.

[@chinpoeykhoo6261]

The most exhilarating part is the loud and pure sound of breathing; it truly makes me feel alive, as if I'm running alongside elite marathoners. As the weather heats up, so do the runners' engines!

[@therealroach1112]

These are like waiting for your favorite tv show to come out!!!

[@PumpernicklePaul]

This is what I love most about sports. Getting to know an athlete, becoming invested in their training, then feeling their joy/pain, success/failure on race day. We are rooting for you!

[@_Clayton_Young_]

Thank you for being here!!

[@jonathandowning1828]

Hopefully their joy ;)

[@grizzlygabe7885]

This really is the best running series on KZbin! I love the workouts, splits, etc., but far more importantly, you're "letting us in" to what's going on with you. That's what good content is all about. Selfishly, I'd love to hear your thoughts throughout the workout, narrated later of course.

[@_Clayton_Young_]

Thanks for your kind words! And that idea is definitely worth considering.

[@jameschaves5723]

I couldn’t agree more!! The times are faster but the struggle is the same

[@kjerstenkipp1154]

I cannot tell you how much this series is helping me. Seeing that it’s hard for you too- that the workouts are hard and sometimes don’t go to plan, sometimes the workouts are amazing. It lets me know that it isn’t just me…that it’s ok to struggle. It doesn’t mean you aren’t doing well. It means you’re working hard. This series is so amazing. I don’t want it to end.

[@_Clayton_Young_]

Love to hear it. Thanks for watching!!

[@jameswisniewski4741]

This has to be some of the best cinematography for any form of running content. Absolutely incredible. Thank you.

[@_Clayton_Young_]

Andrew Storer makes the magic happen!

[@tomcowan8228]

Just over a year ago I had a blood clot go through my heart after catching strep from my kids. After months of cardiac rehab I started running, something I haven't done in decades. I'll never be at this level but I love watching them. They really motivate me to continue pushing myself. Thank you!

[@_Clayton_Young_]

Hope your recovery continues to go well! It's all the same sport, glad you're a part of it.

[@Graham_H.1]

I am so invested in you and Connor’s journey

[@_Clayton_Young_]

Thanks for following!

[@jonathandowning1828]

Has anyone subsequently informed Mantz that 8 8s are not, in fact, 56, or are we just gonna let the man go the rest of his life believing it to be so?

[@icrlp0570]

think it was linkletter but i noticed that too lol

[@Yellow_Afryca]

U can only challenge it if ur faster

[@_Clayton_Young_]

^^community rules

[@brianway4240]

​@@Yellow_Afryca Have to disagree here. TV football commentators are allowed to criticize NFL players. A middle-aged out-of-shape never-played-ball-in-his-life guy is breaking no rules by saying a starting QB is lowsy. Only in running is this notion that you can only talk about somebody if you ate better even a concept.

[@jp05598]

@@_Clayton_Young_?

[@MilesNicholsonJr]

I love coming here for this series. Really is great.

[@ianpierce8723]

I found this series a week ago and I am already on episode 8 😂. I don’t plan on stopping either. Such a great series.

[@salvadorboi]

23:09 music fading in at the end of the video gave me Succession vibes. So good

[@icrlp0570]

thanks so much for doing these. i hope you're enjoying this or making them is not adding too much stress to your build. hopefully you continue all the way through to paris at which point you'll have something to look back on forever.

[@_Clayton_Young_]

Thanks for your kind words! It's been a lot of work, but this series is going to be so special to rewatch with my girls in the years to come.

[@simonstebbings5070]

This series is just wonderful Clayton - thanks for sharing your journey with us! Rooting for you and Conner!

[@timjacobsen3141]

Rory “8*8? What is that? 56?” 😂

[@_Clayton_Young_]

He gets a free pass after running that fast. 😆

[@jameschaves5723]

Bloody hell I can’t remember my age half the time

[@jimduyck]

It’s Canadian math. 🤷‍♂️

[@philrolls3233]

Mantz is a monster up those hills

[@t.dasilva7491]

As a road racer, I really love this series so much its getting closer to Paris time!

[@mikes7654]

Noticed one of the comments stating this is the longest episode yet, and your reply: thus one’s for tru fans……. Well, I must be a true fan 🙂👍🏃‍♂️ !! Always, look forward to your episodes 👍. Loved this video…… especially at 3:54. The background ( Mountains) while on your run,,,,,, simply amazing and beautiful.

[@_Clayton_Young_]

Thanks for being here, true fan! 👊

[@TheFODRunner]

First 🎉 time to watch another masterpiece 🎥

[@_Clayton_Young_]

Congrats! 🥇 Thanks for being here.

[@TheFODRunner]

@@_Clayton_Young_I can confirm, now that I’ve watched it, that it was indeed a masterclass 👏 hope the hip : high hammy settles 🙏

[@jimoconnor8597]

Going through high hamstring (PHT) right now myself. Trying to keep that balance of not making it worse but still getting in the work is very tough! Dry needling has been so vital for me! Keep believing in YOU Clayton!!!!

[@_Clayton_Young_]

Yes, it's a balancing act! Good luck with your training!

[@MrSchwe001]

That PT has a sick Puka Shell necklace!

[@KenyanRunning]

Clayton Young is such an authentic guy. It’s inspiring even for us old guys still running.

[@artcmd262]

2mo ago, I did the acupuncture before I paced a marathon. At that time, my tibia injury was not fully recovered yet. The acupuncture really helped me. I hope the therapy helped you as well! Keep going, Clayton! This Olympic Build series are the best ones!

[@dalexander3136]

21:06 a smo’reo?! Ma’am you might be a genius!

[@distantlight4527]

Just say it is his card! Common. ;) Good to see the progress man. You folks are motivating a ton of folks with these. Thanks.

[@isaachedengren9152]

These are so good

[@GJuu-jd3vv]

Epic!

[@SpeedyBlueBiker1]

Just watched #8 & #9. Hey, I hope the hamstring and lower back are feeling better. Love your content. Keep it up!

[@terciosantana4697]

one of the best series i've come across lately. great job, guys!

[@AndreasKriswanto1989]

You touched on the importance of support system in the previous episode. Thanks for sharing us with more stuffs outside your training, that gathering with your niece looked so fun!!

[@_Clayton_Young_]

Family is everything! ❤️

[@eliputnamm]

these videos are unreal dude

[@peterw9721]

'That was WORK' - great stuff guys!!! Really rooting for you guys in Paris. USA!!!!

[@sleepless_armed_dad]

Definitely,a beautiful place to live!

[@JimG89887]

Watch half, go run. Finish run, watch the rest. Always look forward to a new episode.

[@icrlp0570]

somehow these videos inspire me to live better

[@in-reachrun7225]

Wow guys. From South Africa and every time I go on KZbin this is the first channel I check for a new episode. Thank you loving it

[@_Clayton_Young_]

Thanks for watching and cheering us on!

[@westongrilloruns]

Thanx for filming and creating videos of this journey!

[@marcomartin4241]

I’m enjoying this series so much! Thank you for sharing your journey with us!! I’ve been slowing down the video going frame by frame to look at run form to get some tips, even listening to the breathing patterns, you guys are great!! 🙌💪💪

[@_Clayton_Young_]

Love it! Good luck with your training.

[@dylanweinand-flannery3778]

This series is so good.

[@meangirlbecca]

Love hearing all the heavy breathing that makes the hard work so real. Great capture there! I follow you and Conner on Strava so these episodes always feel like a wonderful live recap of your workouts. Congrats on an amazing Boston 10k today!!

[@_Clayton_Young_]

Thanks for cheering us on!!

[@iambrent]

You guys are working so hard, it is both awesome and inspiring.

[@asecmimosas4536]

Watching them drop Rory like a hot potato was sweet haha

[@lucariva5184]

Conner, Rory and you: competition, resilience, hard work and true friendship above everything. What else? ❤

[@SpencerMahon]

Watched every single second. Loving this man!

[@jassaljs]

What I love is that the entire family is involved in his journey, especially the babies 🤗

[@_Clayton_Young_]

They are the best at cheering me on! 🧡🩷

[@gregux3169]

I’m positive someone on your team is super aware but just noticing as you’re working through this ham/glute issue that your R heel doesn’t get nearly as high as the L as is it swinging through, almost as if that R side is either guarding or is inhibited in some way, and seems more pronounced on the reps you’re working through more fatigue. It’s hard to say but the L knee may be driving differently as well (hard to say with the lack of a crisp picture slowed down to 0.25x speed). Just wanted to point out in case nobody had noticed and it helps! I say this dealing with a similar issue myself so I can relate to the feeling and wish you all the healing vibes. Looking forward to next episodes and continuing to watch you both grow and excel. Thank you for the amazing series.

[@_Clayton_Young_]

Thanks for the insight. It's something that I've been noticing as well and been trying to find the root of so it doesn't cause more problems in the future. Lots of little details here. I'm all ears though if you have any suggestions.

[@gregux3169]

@@_Clayton_Young_ I’m not expert enough to be able to say anything definitively via the internet 🙈 but perhaps a deep dive with your PT team (who seem unbelievable) or an in depth gait analysis will reveal some imbalances that contribute? For me, I had a brilliant massage therapist who helped identify my big toe was too inflexible to extend far enough during toe-off, which affected my gait and every joint up the chain until it finally manifested itself in my deep hamstring on longer/more intense runs. Not saying that’s the issue of course but just using for illustrative purposes. My hunch is that there’s a micro imbalance somewhere to be found, but whether that’s flexibility or strength or structural is too hard to assess visually! At the risk of rambling any further, thanks again for the incredible series, my wife and I look forward to watching each new episode together as we prep for Berlin!

[@ryanfuller8024]

Thank you for these videos - they are inspiring and amazing to watch. Cheering you on and looking forward to next week's video!

[@_Clayton_Young_]

Thanks for watching!

[@DSGCompositions]

This series is soooo good for the running community. Keep up the hard work. See you guys is Paris!!!!

[@norbertomontalvo]

I love this vids series. Thanks!

[@rubberboots2998]

I love watching these, videos are raw and engaging

[@DrProfX]

Made my day! The best running content by far!🏃🏻‍♂️👍

[@crazycasen6822]

Awesome video bro! The road to Paris is looking great!

[@ritaotoole197]

Great episode can’t wait for Paris 🎉

[@paucomaladacoll8222]

Keep it up🎉🎉🎉

[@jayantmalik5878]

Great videos! Thanks for sharing!

[@bobbroyles8771]

Thank you for sharing another insightful and transparent episode. This certainly helps me better understand my own training journey. Stay strong and take care of those nagging little bumps in the road. Yes, your brother in law is such an amazing chiropractor.

[@_Clayton_Young_]

Thanks for your kind words!

[@andreasjuhl2731]

great video as always!

[@zackmitarotonda]

needling is the best, saved me going into my last race

[@67kyoung]

Those needles!!!😮

[@kendy5747]

Love you bro❤❤❤

[@_Clayton_Young_]

Love you too!! We missed you around the campfire!

[@jacksonthompson6831]

Another amazing video, I love to have more content to watch with the longer videos! Keep up the good work!

[@jameschaves5723]

Good luck to you and Rory tomorrow in Boston.

[@tomcowan8228]

Love these videos!

[@rp2238]

I love these videos so much

[@brandonkolb9739]

Clayton, what's it gonna take to get you and Conner on my Hood to Coast team?

[@maxscriptguru]

You should run to the top of Timp. I bet you could get the KOM on strava. But from the north side. That would be a workout with nearly 5000 feet of vertical gain. But please do it after the Olympics.

[@emanuelsantos5585]

Running Twins 😂😂😂 💪💪

[@fritisseloic9377]

Loving it, very inspirational! If you could add paces /km in the montage, it would be much appreciated!

[@mthorburn]

The score from this series is fantastic. From 1:38, during the PMP workout, it sounds like a nostalgic dream. I hope production puts out the tracks when all is said and done.

[@lukemanning3937]

These r sweet

[@elliotendures]

This has been such an amazing series. Thank you for being willing to share. If I could make one ask, perhaps even for after the Olympics should you choose to continue with KZbin: I’d be interested in a more complete look at training, such as the easier and moderate efforts and how everything is organized around your life. This seems to be focused on the sessions, which is awesome, but a broader look would also be enjoyable.

[@_Clayton_Young_]

Thanks for the feedback! And thanks for being here!

[@niklasklei424]

Hey Clayton, I’ve been having the same hamstring issues and something that helped me a lot is the hip mobility routine from squat university on KZbin. I know it might not be the same but give it a try and it took me a week and a half to remove 1,5 years of pain. In the end for me it was a tight hip flexor.

[@_Clayton_Young_]

Thanks! Glad you found your answer!

[@notsarnotsar]

hi clayton! not sure if you will read this. long time follower of you and conner mantz and looking forward to watching you both on august 10th. i'm a huge training plan geek and love your content on yt and strava. i was wondering how you determine your paces for thresholds, tempos, etc. it seems like your marathon pace is so fast that the paces are really close together. thanks!

[@_Clayton_Young_]

Yeah, this is tricky. Sometimes it helps to have a good coach to help you dial in paces. Oftentimes we go off effort. Probably their best to run either a 5K or 10K to get a baseline and then make adjustments from there. My 5K pace right now is probably about 4:20 per mile, my Marathon pace is probably 4:50 per mile, but you're right, those paces are really close as you get faster.

[@notsarnotsar]

@@_Clayton_Young_ thanks for the response and the input!

[@MrSetsanto]

hi Clayton! I've been loving your KZbin series, and read Chambliss' "Mundanity of Excellence" thanks to the most recent episode. It was a really inspiring read! I was wondering what qualitative improvements you remember instituting and seeing benefits from, particularly given your mindset of a detail-focused athlete. As a middling runner, I am having difficulty identifying qualitative aspects to running -- I can see the relationship to swimming (the subject of Chambliss' essay), but somehow running feels less skill-based than running to me

[@_Clayton_Young_]

Great question, maybe when I'll have to think about for a while. I assumed you're referring to the quality over quantity that is talked about in Daniel Chambliss's study. Off the top of my head, quality of mileage, lifting sessions, fueling, and sleep come to mind. Of easy mileage and running, but you can make that 20% of hard running high quality and that's where the true gains are made. Make your easy days easier and your hard days even harder.

[@SkiSurfHikeIt]

Great video series Clayton! Is the basis of the fatigues mile repeats to run 20-30 seconds slower than marathon pace for 40 mins and then 3x1 Mile at threshold? How often do you do this type of workout in a marathon build?

[@_Clayton_Young_]

Yeah, you nailed it. I would say that the mile repeats are slightly faster than threshold pace though. For me, they're closer to 5K pace.

[@selfcoachedrunner]

World class training partners, but I'd take a pass on training on the public roads in Provo! 😄

[@harebear4935]

Never clicked a video so fast

[@asbjrnandersen4765]

Hey, I love this show! Could you please tell me the name of the soundtrack used in the very beginning?

[@AndrewStorerDP]

All of the music is from artlist,audiio and Musicbed ! Common licensing sites for filmmaking.

[@megcook2061]

"4:20 baby" 🤙

[@_Clayton_Young_]

🙌🙌🙌

[@BertoBatista]

Holy fuck you guys are animals!!! Great work

[@_Clayton_Young_]

🐅🐅🐅

[@DavidDeeble]

Clayton -Why does Conner run around certain surfaces, such as grates? In a previous video I recall him detouring around a speed bump or something similar.

[@_Clayton_Young_]

Conner always dodges the cattle guards in the canyons. You'll have to ask him!

[@jameschaves5723]

Maybe superstition

[@DavidDeeble]

@@jameschaves5723 That was my first thought, like pitchers jumping over the first base line when jogging to the dugout.

[@cristian-adrianfrasineanu9855]

This must be on Netflix

[@_Clayton_Young_]

🍿🍿🍿

[@theolneytwins2462]

Underdog nation 😎

[@justapedn1]

I got to mile 24 in the MCM in 1983 and it was like nobody taught me numbers. I couldn’t do math or arithmetic or numbers or language or nothin’.

[@nickalexander9169]

You mentioned on the most recent episode that you want to hit the sauna, increasingly, several times a week. You're already so busy with the running and lifting, can you elaborate on that? Is it coach's orders or what's your thinking there?

[@_Clayton_Young_]

The sauna is something that I've been using since 2019 for the NCAA 10,000 m championships in Austin, Texas. Ever since then I've kind of coached myself how to use it in training to help me prepare for the heat and humidity. Right now I'm in a phase where I only do it after my hard sessions twice a week. But within the last 4 to 6 weeks I'll start doing it five or six times a week after my runs. It's not something that coach has ever pushed, it's just something that I've found success with. It definitely makes workout days long when you go from the track to the weight room to the sauna.

[@Eli-vr1on]

Careful with that hip you gotta make it there in one piece

[@djjoaq8107]

do you use trail Shoes when you go on terrains like this 18 mile long run?

[@street.bluess]

11:52 PM and I wanna go run my long run right now

[@_Clayton_Young_]

🙌🙌🙌

[@abkonk]

6:44... Rory, 8*8 is 64, baby

[@Sagradon]

Was gonna say the same thing 😂

[@sschwen8050]

Canadian math?

[@geogo136]

6:39 what's 8 x 8, 56? 😂

[@Igor_savelev]

hi. Who knows what tracks are playing here?

[@NeillyVille]

Need at least 1hr for this great series 😅

[@_Clayton_Young_]

Maybe someday!

[@sschwen8050]

Was the OT Marathon the only time Mantz hasn’t felt good? Seems like he’s always “on”.

[@Fastrunnerpodcast]

Pretty much, he had a bad race OT. But he also has an unmatched mental toughness that pushes him in workouts

[@joeyzhao465]

Hi, will you make a video or talk about nutrition and food?😂 I saw you eating candy and ice cream 🍨, are those sugar part of you fuel/nutrition or just a reward after hard working?

[@tufornai]

the music score is so it

[@braydensundquist7296]

What’s the pace on your long runs?

[@_Clayton_Young_]

www.strava.com/activities/11659345605

[@shivamrai4370]

Connor’s left arm swing is certainly different from his right, would it improve his timing if he could consciously adjust it like the right one and improve running economy.