 Alright guys, I hope you're all doing well today's video is coming to you because I just had a thought I Had a thought that I hadn't really touched on You know three Specific things that I've learned three things I learned from my very first marathon These are lessons. I will never forget these are lessons. I'm gonna take with me to my second marathon Which believe it or not. I've actually just signed up for so You could say I've I've caught the bug. I've certainly caught the bug and One of the reasons one of the main reasons why I booked another one is the third thing that I learned from my very first marathon So we're gonna touch the three things we're gonna touch on the three things Three things I took away the three things I learned my three biggest takeaways for my very first marathon It's not gonna take long I'm gonna pull over and I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you guys I Okay, so I ran my very first marathon it was the Queen's Town marathon It was three days ago exactly and I did it in four hours 55 minutes and 44 seconds So I learned three things the first thing was that I Suffered cramps. I suffered major major cramps. So what I'm learning through that is the fact that I went out Into this race with nothing on me. I wanted to be the lightest on my feet that I'd ever felt and So, you know, I was definitely not gonna take a drink bottle. I was not gonna take any Food on me, although I probably could have and probably should have But what I've learned is the salt. Okay, so cramps come on through dehydration But also, you know, you're losing so much water because you don't have the salt in your system to retain that water right so What I'm gonna work on next time and my biggest takeaway my first lesson is for me to continue Salting my meals like hell the day before And have a breakfast that morning with salt Or even just a salted, you know a salted drink a salted drink with a lot of salt a lot of salt Continue to hydrate. I didn't take any water with me. I took no food with me I wanted to be the lightest on my feet possible Like I said All I took was my music and that is gonna be my second lesson So I stressed myself out big time the whole day before Because I couldn't work out whether I was gonna take my music or not I could not work out whether it was gonna be worth it or not to take my music with me I'd run with music every single one of my training runs, right? So was I really gonna go and try and run the longest distance? I've ever run before without using the music that I've used every single time I've gone out for a training run No, I wasn't gonna do that. So Luckily there were no rules to stop you from having headphones. I learnt Throughout the race that music helps me. I love listening to music whilst running. It is like therapy It's it's if an amazing song comes on that that emotionally touches me or it has in the past And I'm running halfway through a marathon with these incredible scenes with people around me I mean that feeling was incredible So the second lesson I learned the second biggest takeaway was the fact that if it is allowed And even if it's not I'm gonna take music the one thing I need to do is get an armband specifically for my phone because I had it tucked up in my sleeve I had a very tight thermal long sleeve top on whilst racing That probably contributed to the fact that I sweated a lot But it also gave me a place to put my phone that it would sit solidly throughout the race Which it did so my biggest takeaway my second biggest takeaway Is that I'm going to continue to use music throughout my races? I may only bring it in as a reward factor halfway through But it is important for me It is important there was one moment one moment that I actually got caught out my music was too loud I was in the middle of the road and an ambulance was coming behind me now This ambulance did not have a siren on But he was probably stuck behind me for a good five ten seconds without me really realizing So you do have to be on to it you do and that is my that is my second takeaway music's fantastic I'm so glad I brought it with me. You're gonna have to find somewhere to stash your phone The last thing you want guys in the last, you know, this is I'm gonna include this here This is a big takeaway and I thought fuck. Thank God. I did not wear one of those camel packs You know me nor or a beat or a bum bag or anything like that I don't know how these guys run with something sloshing around on their back or something on their waist That is going up and down up and down up and down or even running with a drink bottle You know, they have these drink bottles that are apart like they have a handle and it's it's easy for you To run with it, but it's still sloshing around. It's still sloshing around and it puts me off It puts me off. So I as I started the marathon. I sort of I saw a few people in front of me and I I thought You're gonna be running with that camel pack on the whole entire race. It's gonna be sloshing around I don't know if I don't know if that's a good idea But then come back to what my first lesson was my first takeaway was that at times throughout that race Where I had five kilometers to go to the next aid station and I was cramping up like crazy I probably needed that water They've probably got electrolytes through that water and in saying that if I can find a way that I can strap a camel pack To my body and not have it sloshing around everywhere. I may do it but for that race. I didn't oh my god Actually, no, you know what? I'm gonna fuck. Oh my god. There is a guy who bet me Okay, he bet me fair enough all good. You might have not had cramps, but he wore gumboots this guy wore gumboots, bro Okay, he ran the queen In a pair of gumboots, I mean what a fucking legend he is okay moving on third biggest takeaway my third lesson my third biggest lesson that I learned throughout that that marathon my first ever marathon and I mentioned it at the start and this is the reason why I've actually gone in and Registered for my second marathon two weeks after my first and that is because The biggest thing I learned guys the biggest thing you will learn By completing any challenge in life, but definitely by completing your very first marathon like I've just done you will learn That you can do it That it's possible That the mind is such a powerful thing you can do it You can do it if you're sitting on your couch right now if you're lying in bed right now You're sitting behind your computer. You may even be driving. Who knows what you're doing? You can do it I mean, I'm not gonna try and I'm not gonna try and say any specifics. I'm not gonna try and say any distances. I'm just gonna try and say That you can do it anything you see your mind to you can do and you can certainly do a marathon just like I did So guys this will now be the final clip of my first marathon video vlog series I will be bringing some more videos around my second marathon, which is up in a place called handma springs another absolutely stunning place to go running and Well, like I said at the start man, I think I'm hooked. I think I might be hooked, but I'm not gonna turn into one of those emaciated skinny Marathon running like looking like people. You know what I mean? Like people always You know compare people to a marathon runner if they're skinny and I certainly don't want to be that way I want to be you know, I want to have a little bit of muscle on my body I want to be able to run a marathon, but I also want to be able to sprint 100 meters I want to be able to run a marathon, but also go and play a game of rugby run a marathon But go and lift some weights in the gym run a marathon and just Keep kicking goals. That's all it's about That's all it's about. It's about inspiring. It's about motivating. I don't know who's gonna be watching this Where you're gonna be watching it or why you're gonna be watching it But for some reason you've watched this whole entire video and I want to say thank you Peace out guys. Have a great day