Just how fast are RACE WALKERS walking?
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- čas přidán 7. 10. 2022
- Tom Bosworth is a double Olympian, world record for holding racewalker. How fast is he?
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Tom Bosworth walks quicker than I run.....my mind was boggled 🤯and legs wasted 🏃🏻♂
A side by side of him walking and you running would have been awesome for some perspective. You’re right, it is obvious he is walking fast, but just how fast is hard to imagine.
He would beat most of us mate 👍🏻
@@zimmejoc that’s what I was hoping to see!
Awesome to see. Seems like a smashing bloke too.
Amazing video again to put pro athlete's speed into perspective. Absurd that someone can walk at that pace!
Tom walking against you running would have been fun to watch, Tom's pace is 🤯
Yeah - how about Mark goes back to join a Tom training session, but with Mark running it?
Was thinking the same. I've just about got used to being overtaken at parkruns by women with twins in buggies, 11 year old girls, why not someone walking.... hell, let's have them spinning plates off 2 metre poles while they're at it, juggling....
@@malcolmfarrelle6 but you’re out there.
@@malcolmfarrelle6 just to clarify, are you running and the women with twins in buggies are passing you? And are THEY running??
@@DeltaInsanity yes, a well motivated mother with two young children in a buggy can knock a parkrun out in 22:xx or 23:xx, I always shout words of encouragement as they fly by
During the Olympics, I would like to advocate for a regular person to compete alongside the Olympians so we can see how crazy Olympians really are.
Show the wr pace and a regular human pace 😂
Yes that we make them look all the more impressive
There really should be a raffle where anyone can enter their name and one is selected to participate alongside the athletes
@@hirvaleMake it like Jury Duty. Olympic Average Person Duty. (And make it close enough to the competition where they can make travel plans but not so far ahead that they can train for it and defeat the purpose.)
Yea lets make the event a complete joke
Race walking often looks vaguely comic and the skill is almost invisible when you watch the elites at major championships. This is such a brilliant insight into just how incredible top tier race walking really is.
amen !
it may be hard to do but it's still the stupidest athletic event
@@GelDouche12 Aye, still don't get the point when these folk could just be doing regular track running instead of trying to funny walk.
Gotta love our these guy are “too Olympic athletes” but all look like death himself
If you compare them to their running counterparts who actually look healthy it’s pretty hilarious
@@thereasonabletroll68 they all look like they sold their souls to Nosferatu for the dubious honour of being fast at walking
I have seen interviews with Tom and him talking about his parkrun experiences. He has said people get annoyed that he is walking past people who are full on running which is really funny to me
I would be so baffled by that
they aren't full on running :P
They're jogging slowly at best
@@Mallchad Most people will not be able to get a 72 second quarter mile or 5:30 mile even when running at max effort.
@@denisl2760 I don't believe most people are even capable of running at max effort.
The thing I see many call "fast running" I don't actually think they understand how run faster and use everything their body provides
@@Mallchad Nobody is capable at running at max effort, your body is literally hard-coded not to let your muscles work at max strength outside of life-or-death scenarios because they would tear themselves apart.
Which is why it's kinda silly to define "max effort" as "the literal physical limits of the human anatomy" as opposed to "the best result a given person can produce, given their current state and training" - which is what I'm pretty sure what the people above you were referring to, hence the disagreement
I would have loved to see a race between you two, you running and Tom walking. I think that would have really given a good perspective on how Tom is actually moving
missed opportunity!
That's what I was dying for.
Still a great video though.
Seemed an obvious thing to do when he said in video Tom walks faster than he can run. Would have been good to see it visualised.
I am a race walker. Started 33 years ago when a demolished knee meant I couldn't run any more.
Good to see someone trying the sport seriously and respectfully. Mind you, I'm a bit peeved that you did your rookie lap faster than I can do one in training these days....🥴🥴
Bozzy, of course, it at another level entirely .
Can I ask at what sort of level were you running, and was it the cause of your knee problems?
@@Mike-me3sp Hi, yes. I only ran for a couple of years in my early 30s, trying distances to see what suited me best. I did a marathon in a little over 3 hours, 10K times were in high 30 mins, 38/39.
I had had an accident at 14 in which my left knee was badly bashed up and never fixed. I did Morris dancing for about 10 years, bouncing up and down in unsuitable shoes on hard surfaces, then a few years of road running. The combined impact of these activities finished off the damage to my knee that had begun at 14.
Dork
@@Centurion986 what sort of accident ?
@@Centurion986 what sort of accident ?
Everyone give it up for Tom, who obviously succeeded in a tremendous battle to not laugh when he heard "85 seconds". Astonishing performance there.
Tom's a top man. I've been following him for years. As someone who has a single British Race Walking Gold (100 miles in 2017) I find it helps enormously with ultra-running. I made the switch to running in 2019 but have found most people walk a good proportion of the longer races (100 miles and up). Being able to walk as quickly as most people run is a huge gain. Especially because, as your video points out, walking uses the rear chain (glutes, hamstrings, hips) where running is quad/calf dominant. I feel like I'm resting my running muscles when I switch to race-walking for 15-20 minutes.
Walking correctly, uses very little energy, you're basically just using the legs to hold you up, rather than to move you forward. It's a really weird sensation the first few times you do it, but as somebody who used to fill online orders at a grocery store, there were days where I'd walk 5 or 6 miles inside in a day, and if I were using my legs to move me forward, I'd be exhausted. (I walked hundreds of miles around the same building during the time I was doing that in a very literal sense) By the end, I had it figured out where I was basically just leaning forward and having to slow myself down as the cart would be effectively running away from me quicker than I wanted to be walking.
@@SmallSpoonBrigade You're basically not using your quads to propel yourself forward. There's like no knee extension on the drive forward. It looks like it's all glutes and other hips muscles
I have never competed, but I remember in gym class in high school our teacher made us do long races around a lake. I was always an awful runner, but I still did well since I could cover a lot of ground taking a break and walking real fast instead! It seemed like I was the only one to have figured that out.
I feel like we just breezed past a great opportunity for a Walkman pun
Doing these more esoteric sports is a good idea for a series - Kipchoge etc is still interesting but everyone knows about those sports already and the stars aren't accessible in person. It was interesting to see how race walking works & how impressive it actually is at the elite level.
Got some good ones coming up!
The Kipchoge video was good to see how stunningly fast he is. His marathon pace would get him a speeding ticket in Toronto parks.
Tom accelerating away bit was hilarious :) .
@@MarkLewisfitness Bog snorkelling?
@@DaveKahn that sounds so gross lol
Did this in school as a kid, the high school track coach would make anyone who made fun of race walkers train with them. First lap would change their perspective on race walk forever, they all had reactions like you on your lap... I knew Tom's $100 was safe at 2 minutes. Great video!
I could walk 400 in 2 minutes... if the whole thing was down hill and I got super lucky XD
Downhill is a lot difficult than flat ground. The reason being is its difficult to maintain the proper form or technique while battling gravity.
@@Portrial Oh well then please forgive me my lord and savior please dont cancel me on twitter
@@Bweyg HAHAHAHAHAHA
@@Portrial XD
You are right, this sport needed the exposure. I am floored by how fast his walking pace is. Sub 20 minute 5k is such an amazing standard of RUNNING, and Tom clears that easily walking... Fantastic content as always.
Tom can probably comfortably walk an entire marathon is less than 3 hours.
I expect so - once he is up to speed he is just able to maintain that movement for ages.
He can, although I believe Chris Maddocks has the fastest British time for walking the marathon. He did the London Marathon in around 2h50. Not an official record though, as the Marathon isn't an official race-walking distance
The WR on the 50km race walking is 3:32, boil that down to 42.195 and you get a bit over 2:59. Scale the 20km record up to a marathon you get 2:42. First thing you notice is that there is a pretty small gap between those two, but the bottom line is that 3 hours for a marathon is close to WR pace. Given that Maddocks was never world class, that 2:50 marathon looks hella fishy. Which sounds obvious when you consider that there were no walking judges.
no. 3 + hours. and no it aint comfortable
I think it's unfortunate that people associate speed with running and being slow with walking. The reality is that the only real difference is that when you're walking, you always have at least one foot on the ground, whereas with running you don't have to have any on the ground at all.
Walking at speed is significantly more efficient as you lose a lot of the up and down and left to right motions that are just wasted energy.
This is one of the most educational yet extremely funny video i've ever seen on walking. This is because i myself can't for the life of me jog nor run as i did in my younger schooling days. Now i brisk walk as my primary cardio. So thank you so much for this!!!
A quick walk is awesome cardio!
At the start of the year I injured my knee pretty badly and couldn't run at all without huge amounts of pain. It took around 5 months to get back to running but during that time around the 2 month mark I found I could walk as hard as I wanted with no pain at all. So I started focusing on walking fast. I thought a 12 min mile was quick, I looked it up and found the race where Tom set the record and had my mind totally blown. My best mile running ever was a 5:00 min, and these days any time I dip into the 5's is a great day.
After learning about his walking speed I started really going at it, today my record for the 1 mile walking is a 8:32 and I want to get into the 7's. Tom is a huge inspiration for me. It's also been 10 months since the injury and I am finally running full speed ahead again. Did my first marathon and ultra this year! I still regularly walk hard. It's such a completely different animal. Huge respect for diving into the world of race walking! Video was awesome!
Not wrong about those 12 minute miles, I'm just a hiker but I sometimes give myself pace challenges if I know ground is reasonably flat for a mile ahead... and getting into the 12s is genuinely hard, boots etc don't help but still. Every .1mph above 4.3mph or so takes a lot of effort.
11:33 'Well that's just for the camera' -> epic flock of birds exactly behind his head. Poetic!
I ctrl + f'd the page to see if this comment existed, or I was gonna leave it
@@CHAOSDEATHCULT :D
And here I was waiting for the shot of Tom walking and you running at full speed side by side! Really cool series.
Side by side race walk vs full tilt run would have been the best visual comparison 👍
It’s literally incredible to think he walks a 5k in sub 20…it has literally taken me 4 years to try and run a sub 20 and I’ve still not managed it….I literally feel when I’m running 4min km’s that I’m
absolutely flying..incredible someone could be walking faster than that pace, I just can’t get my head round it!
I was thinking the same. I do a few progression runs at ParkRun and the last KM is usually 4:00-4:20, and yet Tom walks a KM way faster than that like you say! It’s absolute madness!
Same Bro
Thats cause he's actually running it.
The walking bit is a technicality. He's just running funny.
@@musguelha14 100%. Hes running. People are in denial about that.
The crazy thing is is you aren't an average athlete either but, it's a very good perspective regardless. I really like this series cause it does help people grasp the big difference elite athletes have comparatively.
It looks like you’re rushing not to be late for a meeting
I wonder if Tom's walking speed is greater than his running speed.
No. His 5k is around 16!!!!
@@MarkLewisfitness my calf cramped just reading that
@@MarkLewisfitness what? he walks faster than I RUN!!!!!! :(
Wonder if it's more efficient than running.. I'm guessing no. Cool video though Mark, really enjoyed it thanks.
I don't know what to make of this, but I know that This is amazing!
You never disappoint! This was hysterical but really informative
That was the plan 😂
Mark, my wife and I LOVED this video. Thank you so much for this. We laughed so hard we cried. You are the best!
Had heard of race walking before, but seeing it done at such a level is bewildering. It really is impressive
I just absolutely love this channel. You’ve really nailed the “average fitness” genre down. As someone who’s average in every way, I connect to this content 😂
P.s. you looked so sassy on your lap ☠️
That's perfect - sassy is exactly what I was going for 😁
@@MarkLewisfitness 100/100 on the execution.
Loved the video and the perspective you gave on how fast a walker really goes gave me an even greater respect to those who do it. Good job Tom Bosworth!
Really cool video mate, thanks for taking the time to highlight race walking, it seems far more impressive than I first realized, especially when comparing your speeds to Tom's speeds.
New to the channel but 1/3rd in and I love it.
Semi pro climber, outdoor guide, cycle courier, ski + board, bmx, rugby, kayak, tons of long hikes - I love moving and you clearly do too!
Love this video!! I ran a 10 mile race a while ago and I got overtaken by a race walker. Felt pretty bad at the time. After seeing this video I don't anymore 😁👍
Tom would overtake me on any distance beyond 1 mile!
Always fun getting passed by the stroller pushers too😅.
I just love how relatable and normal you are while creating great, funny content. And you are a great athlete as well.
Fair play for highlighting how insane these guys actually are. I have always been amazed at it
I had no idea race walkers could even come close to a pace like that. Respect!
No shit.... imagine how long would take to do a 50km march if they were slower than this!
This is my favourite "how fast" episode so far, and I loved the other ones! Always had a bit of a laugh about racewalking but never realised that its so crazily impressive
One of the best and funniest videos I have seen. Thank you for putting yourself in this situation, to inform us as to how hard the sport of race walking actually is!
Oh Mark - thank you SO MUCH for giving our event a real go and having respect for it. Means SO MUCH! Cheers - Lizzie🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
This was hilarious.
The editing from beginning to end. His commentary. Respect to all of this.
This could be my favourite video of yours!
Found myself cracking up all the way through it
Had me hooked as soon as you mentioned how fast these guys walk! Couldn't believe it!
Great video Mark! Really enjoyed that. All the challenge vids have been great but this one was especially interesting I thought 👍
This video came up in my feed and I am so glad I watched it. What a great concept and eye opener on race walking. Tom looks like a great sport and lovely chap. Wow, these walkers go fast. Thanks.
Just found your channel. Loved this video. The difference between a pro and a joe is thousands of hours of training and an entire lifestyle change.
After watching your fast walk I thought nope not gonna try it. I don't want to look that ridiculous.
Kudos on being a great sport
Mark, this video was absolute gold. I couldn’t stop laughing through the whole thing.
That duck pond podium footage has paid for itself ten-fold, haha
crazy good format! thanks a lot creating the perspective ❤
I haven't laughed so loud in a long time. That intro was spectacular! You've gained yourself a new subscriber.
There was a local high school race walking team that trained at my college/uni's track... those kids were so fast, what a ridiculously hard sport
That was a great video Mark. I'm impressed with how you improved with Tom's coaching advice. That 2:25 lap time is just a tad over 30-minute parkrun pace, which is above average!
This was fun to watch. My walking claim to fame is still holding my high school's record for the fastest 4 mile walk.
The PE final is a 4 mile walk (running not allowed) and doing it under an hour is an A. I was the only person that year who even trained for it (lol) and I walked it at 42:17, my first mile was a 9:32. And this even with getting my calendar messed up and doing it in regular shoes and skinny jeans!
Translate 4 miles to metric for me mate...that's gotta be 16 laps innit? My fastest 15 lap (6k) is around 42, gotta train a little to go one lap further in that time!
@@codexjr3228 correct, 16 laps (6.4k). 1 mile is about 1600 meters.
I would struggle to run 4 miles that fast lol damn
Thanks mate. Your video made my day! I saw it, practiced once and took part in the Pichi Richi Marathon (10.5 Walk) and became 3rd with about 1 hour 20. I need to get a better time and will practice!
I would have liked to see you run against his walk for 1 lap to give some real perspective on how fast he's actually going.
I was working in the school just over the park as this was filmed. It's awesome how fast Tom is I would have loved to have seen it live.. Parkrun are spending this October encouraging walking. Maybe some racewalkers could show us how it is done.
This video gave me the best ab workout I've ever had 😂 You literally had me crying with laughter. Absolutely love your humor in your videos.
Amazing video!! Thank you for showing us regular people what's actually involved.
If the Olympic games held a "funny athlete race" you would definitely come home with a Gold for team GB. Another entertaining, funny and informative vlog. Brilliant. 👏 👏 👏
Such a great channel and the content makes me pi$$ myself at least once in every video!
I genuinely look forward to seeing a video released every time one comes out!
This was my Sunday evening viewing whilst stretching/foam rolling/strength training a dodgy self-diagnosed IT Band/knee issue after a 57 mile Ultra 2 weeks ago……ahead of a 47 mile Ultra in 2 weeks time, which I expect will be done with very little running in the preceding 4 weeks due to the injury, how very “Mark Lewis” of me that will be. 😂😂
You're a champ for showing us this mate, on ya. Appreciate the effort taken.
Race walking has always intrigued me, this was an incredible video mate thanks for shining a light at this sport with an elite 👏👏👏💪💪💪
I'm crying with laughter. A top class, gifted, professional athlete vs top class bloke with a broomstick up his arse. Quality, Mark.
This was such a cool and fun video. I dated a girl who’s brother was trying to prepare for the Olympic team in speed walking. He’s was insanely fast I was blown away. To think these people can walk faster than I run LOL. Love all your stuff and keep it up! Much love to ya.
it's gotta be so confusing if someone tries to mug him and then he just walks away and they can do nothing
Or if Tom mugged someone and they ran away but turned to look behind them and see him rapidly gaining ground while still walking. Actually terrifying.
Omg love this video😂 i’m trying to improve the speed and technique, yet there are not many videos on yt about race walk. Thank you this was entertaining and education
Great content, funny and mind blowing how fast he can go. Also a bonus point for the interesting little Starling murmuration behind you while you're all puffing and humble.
Brilliant video. Not only highly entertaining and hilarious, but a great eye opener into how incredible elite athletes are.
I am cracking up at this! Great stuff. Specialists are amazing. Thanks for the great content!
Thank you, Mark. I respect race walking much more after this video. Doing similar thing with other underrated sports seems to be a really good idea. I would enjoy such content.
This may be your best video yet. Couldn’t stop laughing. Loved it. Keep it up. Oh and Tom is a machine
Yes perspective is everything when making judgements and comparisons. I always knew and appreciated that Sebastian Coe was fast but this was really brought home to me when out and about driving a Fire Engine around the town of Loughborough one day. Seb studied/worked at the University and part of his training plan was running parallel to the long and straight dual carriageway that passed the Uni and Fire Station by. Ok, we weren’t on blue lights but nevertheless driving alongside of him really gave one a sense of how fast the guy was moving and I mean fast. 😊
Awesome video and great guy giving you the time to meet-up!
That was informative and entertaining. Earned a sub there, mate.
Every time he started to accelerate I just stared at the screen in awe, his speed is unreal, it seems speed up footage
That was hilarious. Tears running down my cheeks with laughing. Great video😂
Great video, Mark. It's like you've read my recent postings on Facebook in the "Old Running Results and Pictures" group, where I've been critiquing Race Walking - and Tom in particular - that it's a mock sport, because all the elite athletes are lifting and the winner is invariably going to be the one that can lift the most, and get away with it. I'll be making my own video analyses on this topic at some point. You got close to what I've got in mind and like others have said, it would have been good if you had raced Tom over 400m with you running flat out and him walking flat out so we could see his strides versus your strides. You are 100 percent correct in your analysis early in the video about how unfeasible it is to walk at those speeds and that is because those are running speeds, no matter what the elite calibre of the race walker.
This video is AWESOME! Thank you Mark!
He's so humble and positive. Great guy.
The amount of lactic acid that builds up in my legs when race walking is more than I can handle compared to when I'm running the same distance. These athletes are so underrated.
another great video, i couldnt stop laughing at your max wall walk at around 7.20 . 🤣🤣, youre walking fast but he is off the ground the entire time . great channel , love your work mark .
I've never watched this channel before, but if there's more videos with stuff like Mark walking fast and making me laugh so hard I cried, I'm hooked.
9:03 Dead, i am crying. That brings back memories from Army marching. There is always that one guy who swings the same hand as the feet 🤣
I started with walking a couple months ago as a way to be more active. I've slowly been working on my walking mile time and my pr is currently 13:08 and I felt like hot shit when I hit that. Seeing Mark walk a sub 10:00 mile pace with a morning of training was humbling to say the least 😅
That was very interesting to watch! Thank you for your videos. I laugh and learn!
I really like these ingenious format of a topic. It’s absolutely amazing and educational. Fun for the whole family
That was incredible. I’m humbled myself. It would have been interesting if you had raced him running while he walked.
Feel that EGO melt away when you realise people are walking much much faster than you can run 😂
Quality content Mr. Lewis sir 👊🏻
Seriously impressive
Love your videos Mark
I tried some fast walking a few years back after recovering from an ankle and knee injury
I tried a few short fast walks and got my 1k time to around 6:50 and walked a parkrun in just on 36 mins
It was an interesting challenge but I still prefer to run
Thanks for sharing :) this is eye opening !
Great video! Love your channel! Many contend serious race-walkers have the best-developed aerobic systems of all athletes. Kind of a shame running coaches don't prescribe it as part of routine training for endurance events. I guess that might be due to it using different muscles than running (?).
Very different-very hamstring and hip flexor dominant. Left me very sore
I do power walking with 5 lb. dumbells for an average pace of 6 km/h. It is extremely difficult and I average about 2000 arm swings with the weights. 10000 lbs of DB toning each arm and an awesome low impact cardio walk.
Strict technique, as in Tom's race walking is the key to success with any exercise routine.
beautiful starling murmuration going on in the background around the 12 minute mark. Also, another great video!
Good video. I (we were) was always curious about that. Amazing results!
'I don't know when Tom new his £100 was safe, but it might have been before we started' comedy gold, I'm still laughing!
Very interesting would have never thought someone could walk that fast. I was hoping you two would have done a mile with you jogging and him walking that would have been interesting.
One of the best posts so far, laughed out loud here
when I saw your thumbnail, I never thought in a million years I thought I would watch this to the end ... really fun stuff!
As both a runner and speed walker, I can tell you speed walking is harder than running. You also can burn more calories. It looks funny, but it is very hard. I used to train with runners and they were shocked when they had to keep up with me.
Especially up hills!
I’ll be honest I came here to see your walk. Seconds in and I’m laughing aloud on a train. My favourite quote “that’s really fast walking”.
Joke aside, Tom can walk faster than my run. How is that possible?! Amazing
Excellent, hilarious and interesting. Have a medal you legend ❤
This is somehow the cutest and most wholesome thing that I had no idea that I needed, but which has vastly improved my day. 10/10
Hi; new subscriber, fellow CZcamsr and runner, here. What a great channel!😃 I started incorporating walking into my fitness routine. I tried race walking. However, it messed up my hip!🦵🏽😫I'll try following Tom's technique. Thanks for sharing this with us!🙂👋🏽👨🏽⚕️🏞️🏃🏽♂️
Dude I am a cross country runner and seeing him beat my PR walking!!! That just makes me want to cry
When I pause I see his both feet are just barely in the air for a moment but it’s almost indiscernible…people could hardly tell but it means a big part of the sport is just finding the line of how much you can get away with and still call it walking, it’s a bit arbitrary and I’m not surprised that it’s not a popular sport
Great video mark, a fantastic watch. 👍
At 11:19 when you asked who walks like that I literally chuckled to myself. I was born with a disability where my knees have no bend and no ankle movement, so "raises hand". Me I walk like that for 37 years lol.