 Yeah that's what I was saying, we better start running. It's a bit wobbly actually if it's running. Morning and happy Mother's Day. By the way happy Mother's Day. Oh thank you I was wondering if you were actually going to say it to me. Bright marathon training, Sunday long run. Get out and do your Sunday long run and we're on ours although I have to admit Sunday long run for me today is nine miles but Victoria is going to hit 18 miles by the end of today's run. This block of marathon training as you know it has not gone to plan for me. So far my longest run has been nine miles. I've struggled physically and mentally with this. It's been difficult to motivate myself when I know I am so far off target. So I am doing two nine mile loops around Worthing. I've done 25 kilometers. Mr C has joined me for my second loop. He's not impressed with the route I've chosen. It's rubbish. Basically just most of it has been on roads with loads of traffic and smog from the exhaust from cars. So I've waited until we're on the seafront to do this live stream because it's much nicer on here and a little bit quieter because the cars are a little bit further away. Hang on. So this is where we are. This is Worthing and look we're just coming up to the turnaround park run. So if you do Worthing park run you run all the way up the seafront and you get to here. Hang on. You get to there and then you turn around and you head all the way back along the seafront down here. So that's where we're running but we have run all the way inland. So I'm on 11k now. Stephen doesn't like running along the A27 however I personally like this loop because it's undulating and quite a marathon will be undulating. Oh finger in the way of the camera. Hang on. Right so now we've got the sea or the beach huts and the sea in the background. So if you're struggling with motivation to get out for your long run don't worry we all are. We all have been and it's difficult in the morning when you're nice and cosy in bed to get yourself out and get yourself running and it was a struggle to push Victoria out of bed this morning and get her running but she did it. And it half greeted me with a lovely cup of tea. I also offered her a jam on toast which she flatly refused so I wasn't impressed with that. Before I left. I think you'd better explain what camp coffee is. In the 1970s that liquid chicory stuff. It's quite nice actually. Haven't had it for years so I had a mug of that and I've been having a jelly bean approximately every five kilometers looking forward to getting it done. Back to parkrun again. So we think parkrun is really good because you get these things as well look on the on the ground. So so you know where you are parkrun 2k you head up there and then you get to that turnaround that I showed you earlier. Let's catch up with Victoria. Morning you see a Canadian flag here as well as a war memorial to the Canadians that served here in Worthing during the war. So yeah we've got about 4k to go to the end of our run heading towards the pier. Seeing lots of running friends. You saw more on your first loop didn't you? Victoria was obviously out earlier so she saw loads of people out early for their long run. But we've seen a couple of people on the way out on the second loop. So this is actually giving me vague hope that I might complete a marathon distance. So for those that don't know we have I have we have two marathons coming up so we've got four weeks until Brighton Marathon. So Victoria and I will be running Brighton Marathon. If you're a member of the Zwift run channel or you run with us on Zwift you'll know we've been training with Zwifters on the on the Zwift run channel for the Brighton Marathon and that's been going well. We've been doing an interval session every Wednesday and a medium long run every Friday on the treadmill. I've just failed to get my long run in. Yeah both of us really haven't really done our long runs um because we I mean we're too tired. We're too tired we've been ill as well of course. So I managed to do Stenning Stinger Marathon last week in five hours which uh was a struggle and I've got a 20 mile run next week in London so I'm looking forward to that. Hi David that's another Ronevard running friends David Marsh. So yeah hopefully we'll be able to get around Brighton Marathon you know without getting injured and with all our Zwift friends enjoying our enjoying our time together in Brighton. Hang on a second Mark Merritt oh I've just missed Mark's comment that disappeared how do I get the chat back um live chat uh he says oh you will always complete Victoria you're an absolute animal. I'll do my best you know I will. Thank you Mark um so yeah Brighton Marathon in four weeks time. It will be our first ever Brighton Marathon. Yeah we normally we go to Paris as as if you follow the channel you know we go to Paris every every year and we've done it for 11 years now um so we thought we should do our local race. The thing is we think we've probably chosen a bad year to miss Paris because of course Paris this year is holding the Olympics and um I think the Paris marathon is set to be probably quite a good one this year with with that in mind. Oh we love Paris so if you ever get the chance to go and do the Paris marathon do that because it's great and so like like I said we've done it for 11 years running um so we thought we'd have a change you've done five of them yeah and I've done 11 so we thought we would have a change and actually run our local race our local marathon um so that's what we signed up for and we oh yeah right just before I carry on a few months ago two years ago now oh god two years ago our son Ellis was was running parkrun with us and I as we passed this gap in the in the fence here I saw a Ferrari or something I think it was a Ferrari or a Lamborghini yeah and Stephen says Vic look left at the Ferrari so Vic looks left but also Ellis our son looks left and then looks in front of him and as he looks left smashes his face into the edge of this bin here broke his nose broke his nose yeah blood all over the place thankfully a doctor who was running parkrun stopped to help and and the man in this cafe here gave us gave him a free hot chocolate so this cafe here the man gave us a free hot chocolate so he's been there for at least two years as well and he gave us uh lots of serviettes and ice for him anyway what was I saying Brighton marathon yeah so um Brighton marathon we I've never wanted to do it because of there's a long drag to the power station in Brighton it's a really boring bit of the route and to be honest most of the Brighton marathon route has not inspired me in the past I've done Brighton half marathon a few times and a lot of that is on the same a similar route so it's not inspired me but we thought seeing as it's now changed hands to London marathon events and seeing as they've changed the route slightly we thought we would give it a go my arm by the way is absolutely killing me holding this phone up as we run oh yeah beach that is a sauna so if you want a sauna on the beach you can go in that little building hang on let me go and let me go and say hello to him hang on live interview right how much does it cost to go in there uh you can book it out for private 60 you hire out the whole thing for six people or it's 15 for an hour if you're in a 15 quid for an hour that's not bad is it I've never used it before now one day I will so if you're interested go to fire salt sea dot co.uk appreciate the show thank you right um so that's it Brighton marathon four weeks from now we are we are going to make it round it won't be quick I am pacing four hours Victoria is going to pace five hours for our Zwift friends our Zwift crew if you're going to go to Brighton come and say hello if you see us in the crowd or do let us know beforehand that you're going to be there and we will be at I think the plan is for us to be at Hove uh is it Brighton and Hove Park Run or Hove Prom we haven't actually decided to be honest um it could be Brighton and Hove Park Run on the Saturday before the marathon or Hove Prom Park Run the Saturday before so that's what we're doing in four weeks um and then in six weeks time I'm doing London marathon now I had been hoping that was going to be a PB attempt but it won't be because of illness because of not getting the training in uh there's no way I've been able to increase my mileage put in the long runs and put in the hard efforts with uh two basically two months of being sick I am going to have to walk because I can't hold this phone up it's madness um yeah it's it's actually very calm beautiful not too windy no rain it's overcast here but what are you gonna do so yet London again London will be a best effort I will be there cheering um Victoria is a massive inspiration for my wife Kelly she does hang on oh um she does follow you on Strava she always she's always going on about you good luck with your marathon she said and make her day and follow her back okay so we have to follow Kelly Merritt back oh thank you Kelly um Michael Bennett says good luck with Brighton you'll both smash it I'm also ill this week cough and a cold well we're better I mean physically I don't feel ill anymore I've been better for a couple of weeks now um but you know it's too it's too late yeah energy levels since we've had these multiple viruses yeah so it's it's just too late to get all the training in to do a fast marathon but I am hoping that in the next two or three weeks I can get some training in to at least attempt perhaps a good for age time so for me good for ages three hours 15 minutes that would get me into London for next year or at least it'll give me the chance to get into London for next year so um my goal is to get as close to three 15 as possible at London so there we are right I think we should probably end this live stream well thank you all for your support and encouragement yes it really does mean a lot and and for you as well so you know again like I said before if you're struggling to get out in the mornings for your long runs if you are struggling with motivation you're not alone you're not alone um but just know that you can do it get out there do your level best to get out of bed in the morning um and you know our daughter Elsa she always says to me mommy you know you're gonna feel better when you get home and who was that just said something there uh so no coaching said there's a lot of illness around um at the moment yeah absolutely we've we've heard it from loads of places that people have been ill so yeah it's just happened to us and we've missed the rain we have missed the rain right take care everyone thank you so much for watching the live stream if you're watching this um you know in retrospect on catch or whatever it is uh don't forget to uh subscribe to the channel and uh like thank you very much uh pop a comment down below how's your training been going uh you know what are your plans for the spring or the summer have you got any big races planned let's know uh good luck with whatever you're training for um Brioni says good to see this morning good luck with the training uh Elsa is right what did Elsa say she always says to me mama you will feel better when you're finished and I said that to you this morning I said you'll be you'll feel glad when you've done it yeah yeah because I had to kick her out of bed this morning and I've done 27k only a few more to go Aaron thank you Aaron Aaron says well done right take care everyone thank you very much for watching and we'll see you next time bye bye