European Dreams: The Best XC Race in the World
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- A hungry Great Britain team heads to Brussels in pursuit of a record medal haul, but how will they fair on one of the most testing courses the championships has ever seen? Callum is given the honour of captaining the team, as top athletes from more than 20 nations battle it out in front of thousands of passionate fans. Is this the best cross country event in the world?
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Your production is at the level of a Netflix documentary. All the best to the videographers and editors as well as the athletes, I am one of you and greetings from Serbia!
Thank you! 🤝🤝
10 seconds in and I know it’s going to be a video for the ages
hang it in the louvre
Criminal this was only on the red button, such an entertaining event! Megan Keith seemingly accelerating for the entire run 🤯
Another great video guys 👏🏻
Megan Keith is out of this world !!
Great video, thank you! Innes Fitzgerald and Megan Keith are such stars, massive respect to them, can't wait to see what the future holds for them.
HUGE futures. Megan already proven on the track, excited to see what Innes can do. Her attitude is seriously impressive - not many young women that composed and level-headed 👊🏻
@@the.distanceproject The way she ran, it would have been very interesting to see her go in the senior category !
As a French it could have been quite frustrating to watch, but what an amazing video. Loved it, well done!
Appreciate it! 👊🏻
I was there, and I saw Niels lose with my own eyes. It kinda hurts to see him lose in slow motion now😅 (im Dutch as you might have guessed).
Great video though👍
We love Niels, such a nice kid and big future. This will make his Olympic story better!
Really didn't like the call from GB to switch the order mid race for the mixed relay. Make the call beforehand, then stick to it, regardless of how the race is going. Obviously it made the last leg more interesting as a viewer, but I think it's pretty cut and dry now that you should bookend a mixed relay with your fastest runners.
Hindsight is 20/20! Hard to know really… one thing is for sure, it makes the race more exciting 👊🏻👊🏻
Great episode. Loved the music, more suspense than a game of thrones episode.
Modern day John Snow 🫡
We taught Barnicoat how to sprint, so we'll just go grab that gold medal off him!
BarniGOAT
You’ve had so much success this year Callum, everyone has bad days. This is a wicked lesson for anyone to learn, you’re a million miles away better of an athlete than I can ever be. But a slap in the face is one of the best lessons I’ve ever had as an average club runner & I think that’s universal. You’ll be back & stronger for the experience, I know this. Huge fan of you mate, can’t wait for the next year to see what you can do.
Thanks mate! 100% - as long as you channel the experience in the right way, there’s sometimes nothing better than a bit of suffering / poor result to keep you motivated
the cinematic element in these videos is unbelievable. what a combo of athlete and videographer
Charlie is getting better and better at what he does 💪🏼
Amazing results from the team throughout, and a superb video again! Love it, can't wait to see what's in store for Calum in 2024
Thank you! 💪🏼
Wow wow wow. Two 10/10 videos in a row. Something special happening here. I said it on the last vid, but the way this magnifies the sport, especially British Distance culture and running, is superb. A masterpiece again.
Thank you mate! Really appreciate that 👍🏼
As french it was a pleasure espacially on the mixed relays. Chills !
Glad you enjoyed 🇫🇷🇫🇷
Great content love this really respect what you have done
Cheers mate!
Firstly, top tier from Charlie as usual, just taking care of business innit. Secondly… your clarity in the debrief is exactly what you need in this scenario. Don’t lose sight of how far you’ve come just in the last 12 months.
We go again. Allez à Paris s’il vous plaît 🫡🥖
Cheers mate! Glad you enjoyed this one 🤝
These videos are absolutely mint , loving watching them 🤗
Thank you! 💪🏼
This was worth the wait! Great video and a great attitude from Callum after getting "spanked" - on to the next one!
Thanks for watching! 🫡🫡 promise I’ll get a better result in the next!
Thoroughly enjoyed this, well done.
Thanks mate!
Amazing documentation of the sport. So much love for this.
Thank you! 👊🏻
Excellent production as always
Thanks Trevor 👍🏼
Quality video guys, love it 👏👏👏
🫡 thank you
Great content!
Thanks mate!
Beautifully edited video! Great work
Thanks!
Another great video showcasing our sport at its best
Thank you!
Wow, this is next level! Great work guys 👏👏👏
Glad you enjoyed! Thank you 💪🏼
Great effort Callum! I loved that you guys showed others GB teams race as well. As always, super duper video!
Thank you! With so much talent and amazing results it felt crazy to only make it about my experience 👊🏻
Another great qualtliy video from this channel, love getting such an amazing introspective into the competitive running scene and really shows the ups and downs of what its like at such a high level. Well done to Callum and all the other athletes that competed as well as amazing work as always from the videographers👏👏👏👏
Thanks for the kind words!
Outstanding video as always 🫡
Thank you!
This intro was amazing !
Well done mate 👏
Glad you enjoyed!
Thanks for the top notch content and for giving a great example of never give up. 🔥
Thank you 🫡 glad you enjoyed!
Thanks for another great video. Amazing GB results, and especially good to see all the GB medalists and hear from some of the women too.
Really glad we could feature some of the women! Slightly harder for us simply based on limited connections (it's always easier for me (Callum) to message friends/rivals to get them involved.
Was in Brussels to see this championship. The video really brings the atmosphere alive. Congrats on making fine YT content and your rising career in track and field.
Thanks for the kind words 👍🏼
the production on these videos is incredible. great work charlie and calum.
Thanks mate
Great to meet some of the ye at the weekend by the start line, superb video and production as always. Fair play to all of ye, this channel is so very energising and inspirational, continued success for 2024 🇮🇪
Thank you! Hope you enjoyed your weekend 🫡
Great video and good honest appraisal of the performance from Callum. “Bad day to have a bad day” but it happens to the best of them.
Nice touch to include the podium and medal ceremony at the end, goosebumps!!! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Props again to Charlie for the production, best keeps getting better!
Thanks mate! 💪🏼
Really well constructed and entertaining video. Callum, as you know the place and/or the time doesn't always represent the effort given or the quality of that effort. No doubt you gave an outstanding effort and should be proud of that along with the entire team that ran so well.
Thanks mate! All you can do is your best... sometimes it leads to a good result, sometimes less so! Just got to keep knocking on the door.
Great stuff PLUS a Fogg Dogg cameo
Huge feature 💪🏼💪🏼
Great video Callum and always love your attitude! Onwards and upwards for 2024!
Thanks Andy!
It was a great event to watch on the red button. Very well organised, no sooner had one race finished and been wrapped up then you were on the starting line for the next one! Lovely few hours sat in front of the screen!
To improve the event; scrap the U23 category. The best runners in this age group could easily compete in the senior race, runners are maturing earlier these days not just in Africa but Europe too. In the senior race go back to a traditional X Country format; 8 to run 6 to score. This would be a true test of a country's depth in the sport. Three to score doesn't really put this to the test. If it was thought necessary it could be stipulated that each senior team must contain at least two U23 runners; this wouldn't have weaken3d the UK team at all. Women's team would have been strengthened!
On the team scoring… it was 4 runners to count for years but GB was very dominant, so they moved down to 3 to score to try and make the team event more competitive. Not saying I agree with it, just an explanation 👍🏼
Tough race, but you've moved up to where you now have to face tough races. Congrats on the first Senior Vest! Team GB showed up, though, and the races were great! Totally a gnarly course, even without the jumps! Looking forward to see what you do next year! (Unless you have a Santa Run in you before the end of the year or something. Ha!) Loved the piece on EuroCross!
Thanks John! Appreciate the support.
Superb video. Felt like we were watching a professional documentary on TV. Gripping stories of each race too.
Like you say you left your 10/10 race the week before in qualifying for this. And great attitude to finish acknowledging dozens of people would have craved the vest you were running in.
Thanks for watching! I’m proud that we still made a great video even though my (Callum) performance wasn’t anything special. Shows the channel has some sustainability!
@@the.distanceproject it's another league from most of running CZcams.
These videos are just "#goodforthesport", keep them coming! - nothing showcasing British distance running in quite the same way at the moment where mainstream coverage sometimes lets us down.
Thank you! More to come! Wait until the day we get the budget from brands to support our videos… more cameras / angles / travel / characters… will seriously level up!
Great review
Thank you 💪🏼
Great video. As a former 800m I can fully sympathise with how you must've felt on a course like that. The not so good race results make you appreciate the very good races even more. I can see you, Fogg Dog and Stonier have some cracking races next Summer. The battle for the 1500m Olympic and European spots will be cracking
Thanks for watching! Looking forward to capturing the British battle 🇬🇧🇬🇧
Awesome video
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Strength is one thing, mud is another. Didnt notice any 3:34 guys ahead of Callum. Good experience and some great races webt down!
Very true! As with us all though, I’m my own worst critic at times!
Great work lads, raising the bar once again
Thank you! 👊🏻👊🏻
Brilliant
Cheers!
This is good
Cheers mate!
Axel Vang Christensen is a freaking superstar.
It's said that Axel could walk into any bar here in Denmark and pick any girl he'd like 😏🙂
Not sure about that 😂😂 great runner though!
Good results as team Captain though!
True!
Charlie produced a real banger with this one 🔥
Although as source material Euro XC beats Telford 10k.
Have a good Christmas! 🎅🎄
Merry Christmas!
This is an exceptional video of a fantastic event. GB distance running is in very, very good shape. The last leg of the mixed relay was tough to watch. Do you think changing the order mid race was a mistake or would it have played out like that regardless?
I always say the relay result is the average time of 4 people. Yes the order can sometimes effect how people run, but if all 4 gave their maximum effort then you'd think the result would be the same whatever order they ran!
@@the.distanceproject Fair. Either way, they did really well as did the whole GB team. What an experience for all of you.
Great video, but unfortunately my iPhone 15’s cut out clips the text on the left, so I can’t turn my phone on the side and still read the text.
If you could keep the text from hugging the sides of the screen, I’d really appreciate it.
Sorry to hear that! Get this one on the big screen 📺
If you had done the Telford 10km (plan b I believe?!) instead, where do you think you would have placed? It was a fast race with so many sub 30.
Great video and it should be funded by GB!
Impossible to say really! Confident of sub-29 for sure 🫡
@@the.distanceproject Elson vs Gray?! 💪
“If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two impostors just the same”…you didn’t give up when you looked totally spent and it would have been easy to throw the towel in. This means that in reality you won, as you did the best you possibly could.
Thanks James 👍🏼
22:11 is one of the coldest moments in sport
a sight we will see again soon, no doubt #goat
James Kingston is the real goat@@the.distanceproject
hugo is the goat we out here on god
Our king 👑
It's unfortunate that Europe's love of cross-country running has not been matched in the United States. I'm especially impressed with the many age categories. America does offer cross-country programs in its public schools and there are a very few championship races for the elite high schoolers staged by a couple manufacturers of shoes and athletic apparel. But our events pale in comparison to Europe's annual events.
True. I think the scale of the US doesn’t help… here in Europe fans from many nations can take a 2hr flight for £100 and be at the other side of the continent supporting friends!
The way the championship events are pretty much same time doesn't help. You have NCAA's then NXN, followed by Running Lane and Footlocker. National club championships ND Footlocker fell on same day. One in Tallahassee and the other in San Diego. Opposite sides of the country. Which o e do you go in person to spectate. Sho stores could push local Running clubs and events.
I’ve never seen 18mm spikes before. Where do you get them?! Longest I have is 15mm. I bet 18mm look massive!
Should be able to get them online or at a speciality running shop. Not needed very often, I find they do the same job as 15mm!
Keisha did awfully on the last relay leg.
But she gave it her all
That’s not her name (it says it during the video) and she didn’t run awfully. She got chased down by two of Europe’s top runners.
I’d say that’s quite poor form changing the leg order for the mixed relay like that. Better to play it honestly and see if they could win a straight race. Devastating for Khahisa at the end 😢
Easy to say in hindsight! The coach making the call did what he thought was right at the time.. another day maybe they get the gold, who knows!
She got stitched up and made to look like a loser. Poor decision. Put your fastest athlete last!
@@NickHope easy to say when you know the outcome of the race 🤣
@@the.distanceproject You're right, and I'm sure there were reasons, but 'fastest last' is age-old relay basics. I suppose there's some value in giving her a clear run, especially with mud flying around, but surely that's outweighed by the motivational value of chasing and overtaking other runners.
@@NickHope in XC relays, 'fastest last' is not a tactic employed as commonly as you'd imagine - because unlike the track where you can see whoever you're chasing at all times... being too far behind can severely impact your ability to chase. Thus, the decision to try and open up a big lead.
Do you like racing in the US or UK more?
Totally depends!
fucking great vid
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La France reste la meilleure 🇫🇷❤ the French is the best nation !
unfortunately (for you) not!
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Elite set up 👊🏻
Awesome video
Thanks!