The Hyrox Boom: Is It Becoming Too Popular?

In this episode, we dive into the explosive growth of Hyrox and why it’s becoming one of the hottest fitness competitions in the UK. But with skyrocketing demand and limited event spots, is it becoming too exclusive? We also explore the broader fitness landscape, discussing the evolution of competition-based training, the challenges athletes face in gaining access to events, and whether these trends are here to stay. We also discusses Nick's new glasses, his new exercise plans, meal kits and pants.

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did. I did a High Rock's last year and I enjoyed it. it hit the UK. What, three years ago? but it is literally grown. It's flat, unbelievably achievable, big, bought a ticket on the first year literally went on the website, buy a ticket, And then this year I've tried to get it twice Is 9000 people in front of me in the queue and pointless. grown so quick in the UK. There's a problem forums have all started up now complaining about it. What's the solution? got to the point that not everyone can do rocks because you can't get into the thing. where the hierarchy is going too quickly for time goods and risks losing elements of this accessibility. thing. It's going to affect their brand. I've got a while. I'm going to fix the economy. I've been invited to try something out I'm convinced she's a cyborg. the best things ever. I know I look ridiculous. Oh, my God. Nick He. Welcome to another episode of the same actor. Good afternoon everyone. Welcome back. The doctors away this week. So next year, I'm a substitute. I still have the same skills. Good governance, good football. Turner. Substitute. Yeah. It's like, you know, once you know, you know. I'm just like Clark and Superman, you know? Oh, come on Superman. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Good. How was your first week back then? Second week. Last week was my first week, but it wasn't that. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it was your right. Yeah, but it's first day of the beginning of the month again as they all get very busy this first week of the month. Everyone suddenly wants everything everywhere. All the reports are done. You got to know what it's like now that I gave you a referral. Hey, Ethan. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And he's out of flying as well. Thank you. Thank you very much. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. We thought he may have dropped out and waited a while back because he came on, and then he said, oh, it was one of those. I'll start in February, but we're now April. Bit late. But he did have a kid. Did you ever get to this guy's face? I just had a load. He's going away to take them to Wales Friday. And a load of internal stuff. But that is a very. Is there anything else? And Ethan's life on a Saturday. So he's going to join us. He's a he's cosplayed. Cosplayed on retargeting is, 2.50 pounds Marshalls. Was that. So is it nice to do really well there. He is a great great company set up. Oh on the margins are huge. Yeah. So I've gone through the margins and it's disgusting from, from a point of view of where we're looking at from like someone comes in or goes on the website and takes action. Formatted brilliantly. Yeah. Hey, I know you spent a lot of time with that channel. Yeah. Oh, it's down to a ten. I've got to cool it down. So are we. Well, that landing page, we need to know of those leads coming in, because it's a new thing for they've never done anything on Facebook, really. And he's never done cold outreach. So he was like, this is all about on do middle of funnel on a funnel of people. Because have so many people watching the videos or millions of people watch the videos, don't they? And go to the website. So it's like, how can we utilize those? Now we're getting the leads coming through the 2.50 pounds. And I've seen the best is the best, hold hook rates and whole rates of people watching the videos just like Matt. Mental videos. Very good. Yeah. And so it's like, well, how are we going to know what the ROI is on those leads that are coming in through the retargeting. So we've so we created to that was like it was like time you two seconds. So he's got an internal guy quick voice. Now can you do me duplicate that landing page and put Facebook at the end of the URL. So just like that, we're able to change it rather than waiting and all this sort of stuff. So yeah. So he's got a very well set up internal. Very good. Yeah. He's a good guy and good systems. I'm thinking about getting it for my hallway and my downstairs. Think about it. It's a bit pricey. It's not too bad. If I don't need it, it's probably okay. Yeah. Did you get a quote from him? Not. Not heck, yeah. So because I've got so in my house, they put a radiator on the wall in the hallway. Yeah. It's not central. So anything you do with it is all off center. So we'll put radiator cover over the top of it. But then the mirror that's above it has to be central to the radiator cover, not to the wall of I will be off. This is such a first world problem. I know, and it's just like that's such a pain. There's only one radiator in the kitchen, one in the lounge. So I'm like, I just don't think I'm going to do immediately, but it's like, maybe I'll get rid of. I would consider if I had to get if for some reason I had to change my radiators, I would definitely consider the client to cost me money, because what the heck, the air source heating company. Yeah. That they he's coming. Brandon's coming out for a quote at some point. So because I'm writing the ads in the copy for it, you get your 7500 pound grant, which is what we're leading with, and it's the winning text overlay, obviously on obviously, but pretty good logic there. And I said, yeah, but isn't it like another like 7.5 ten grand wounded and stuff for EDF. Expensive. But like because it's EDF is there's nowhere near that. He said the installs of a four bedroom house on average after you get your seven and a half grand, the air source heat pump fitted will cost you two and a half to three grand on top of the grant, and you are going to seriously bring down your heating cost. I'm like, what a heat pump is at what manufacturer? I don't know that bit. Haven't got that far. I just got this image of Lawson because he's now got, you know, the award that we won for the semis. Yeah. That's been re that's reactivated now. So, we're about to do loads more ads for him to going after that. The green homes grant the GHG but for the benefit of people on benefits. Okay. Nice. So that's come back out. Even Chell credits everything. Yeah. You said everything. If you got a benefit because you got toothache, you can get pretty. He's a heap of ADHD as well. Yeah, ADHD on there, isn't it? Yeah. So it's quite. Anyway, we're I'm going to get him. Yeah. But you've got to be. Yeah. But you've got to you've got actually have a, you've got to be you've got to be on a benefit for ADHD is like the Peppa of. All right. Okay. Yeah. You can't go I've got ADHD. I if I had Ritalin when I was 12 you got. So so yeah so but for two and a half now I'm going to get a get go out on that my bloody foot. Like because we plug that electric car into the house I 290 could a month. Why would you put it at the end of the garden. Well, no. So I spoke to someone else. Oh live yesterday. She said they're all going up on her estate and people are putting them up above the side of the house. Up inside the house with all the way? Yeah, near the roof. But depend on what size you need. Yeah. House. Yeah. Yeah. I don't ever want less of the house. Just in case, I don't mind if you went underneath the the window at the back that remind you could do at the back of the house if I can bring my bills down from 290 a month because the government. I'm going to bring my bills down from two nine. No, I will Rachel from Rachel from accounts is really killing us at the moment. I have got a wife. Rachel. From accounts. Yeah. Rachel Reeves. Oh, sorry. You know, the absolute I'm convinced she's a cyborg. Convinced me. I don't think she's human. You know, in, The spy shocked me, Austin Powers. So you got, you know, like. Yeah. Yeah. They write those cyborgs. It's. She's. I'm convinced she's a robot. So why do you think this just. She's she's not a human. Well, the way she talks and interviews everything. She's not human. I'm convinced she's a cyborg, which is not doing very much good anyway. She she's not helping anybody know what they've done? My granddad, I was since when I die, they basically is entire benefits away everything. He doesn't get anything now. He's literally if I, if I was not able to basically support him, he'd be on tangled awake. Unbelievable obscene honesty. So yeah. Yeah I yeah the people who are getting benefits. He paid for it. He paid for in his pension. So him in Minecraft you know a better you know retirement because he paid extra that tax him on that actually paid in sweat because man I'm not past. Yeah. So taking another 500ft away from him each year on the extra RA. Yeah. It's obscene. Like it's like it's so bad. So. But anyway I've got a wide effect. So I've got a while. I'm going to fix the economy. I am going to. And I hope Rachel's lessons us is I think we should take a direct debit at Faye from every time. Only just pick up the dogshit of 249 pounds. It'd be sawn in a month because the amount of I say walking my dog at the moment, I even call it someone yesterday and I shouted cos right again, pick it up! And he did it and he didn't. He just ignored him, walked on I if I was on with Quinn I would I'd of I it's the most irritating thing in the world I don't. Yeah because it's it's rank. If I move to the point and you're the same because we've had dogs for a long time. If I, if I on the very rare occasion that I can't pick it up because I've gone, I'll come out with the bags, I'll go back. Yeah. Go ask someone if you go back. Yeah. And I've actually gone back and gone to pick it up and hoping that no one's gonna have an argument. Me on the way to leaving on a say it. Just so that's how we can slow the economy out. Especially at the ceremony. At the crematorium. Yeah. 2 to 4, 9 pounds per dog. I think we'd have enough money to fix our black holes in about a month. Yeah. So that's how of Rachel if you're listening, give me a shout at the final. She say she's, she's, she's a cyborg. No chance. She's not a human. Oh she's going to screw everyone isn't she. She's going to screw the next 30 years. Put it. So cheery. Cheery. Yeah. So, so you want to just, we're about to having a conversation about. And this is perfect for the podcast that I discussed blocking with focus. Yeah, yeah. I've been waiting for this, Michael. I saw a thing on LinkedIn, from a guy called Travis. Shout out to Travis, who is some sort of one of these meta ads. Oh, I'm a meta ads expert person. You can see here. Nick, this is I love that he's put his average ro ass as well. Like in his bio I think. Yeah. 30 plus million in revenue 4.6 Roas average, which is pointless. But he made a post you I thought no no no that says which I thought was never trust a doctor. It was poignant. No, it says 29 Facebook ad experts. You need to follow on no and online now. But he made a glaring omission because the doctor's not in it. Okay. Fine. I was, he got excited then. Do you have any of these, you know, any of these people? I bet Ben's on that. I know what to do. Why not? Why that? Sorry. Let's get grandad. Get his glasses off. Oh, you like this? Let's finish. Michael's brought us. Oh, my God. Cameron Campbell, Nick Jordan rumor. He's a matter of a dollar a day. And so that was a set up with Phil Kale. Phil Kale, he's a good one actually. He's British. Is he is. But these are these guys will have YouTube. That's what I mean. The doctors not the doctors not mentioned that, you know, utilize them off of carry on camping. You know, I said James, Miss Marple, so the camera just these are the best things I've ever had. Yeah, these are all YouTubers he needs to get. He needs to get on that. So I feel like he's going very mainstream. He's gone very like, you know, he's not clearly deep in the weeds. Do you know? You know why? Yeah. You know what I'm saying? This. Oh, no. Look, I think he's the best things ever. I know I look ridiculous. Yeah. No, I think the best thing is ever. So the reason I've got these miniature glasses that go to the back of my phone is because when you have to wear glasses, I'm sitting in when we're going to India and see a man and a woman, just like pop management. And I look at boarding pass one at the back and I was like, that's amazing. I'm having to carry bulky glasses in my pocket after my my thank God for dinner. The only the only time I've been I can't see anything. I can't see the menu from sight pictures. And that's the only thing that night I need glasses for is that three minutes? Look at the menu. So Caroline Bowman's Christmas, but they've only just come out. Long story. So you just do that tonight. Absolutely perfect off the bucket I look like a set up the oh for them they just mention that makes it okay does that Richie. Yeah it said he said here are the experts I follow to stay dilated up to nine. Right back inside where you start these start these. Follow this podcast. Well just the the doctors always obviously been what is dilated me dilated is like many people Starlight. So I think he's using it to try and plan. You know when you people are dilate that's when the big. Yeah. All right. Clever inside. Oh so you're gonna want to. Yeah. I thought I thought you going to be on that. Oh, I saw it, and I thought you need the list. But on the positive, Michael, we saw that without that. So be even better if I was on the list. But it was actually the doctor, and nobody wrote the doctor. Now, we better. Well, so. Yeah, I forgot about that is. I mean, if we, if he sees it, we'll let you know. Yeah. Is complete without the jobs. Yeah, exactly. So running and my annoyance with branding, not branding events, events. It's not something I see coming or do you want to put a context to it? Yeah. So. So you did. I did a High Rock's last year and I enjoyed it. Okay. And the thing is with Higher Rock's a bit like you, you do this long distance running, but you have to go and train for long distance running. Well, there's actually no high rises. High rocks. Imagine. Oh, how can I explain high rocks to an average person? Michael. High rocks is for middle aged man. It's not actually, a there's a lot. Yeah, but there's a lot of young people in that. The average age is over 30 on high rocks. And. Yeah. Yeah, maybe. Yeah. So middle aged okay. But same across fares not average up a lot across. There's a mile high right. Yeah. It's a 3030 plus by Michael. Men and women typically man who basically want to feel like they've got some fitness to them. You're different for you. Stop moaning at me while being while showing the world that there were better fitness from time to time because they get photographed like, World's Strongest Man. But they're not all, well, strong, you know, it's like, it's because they walk. I work a bit like I got mine was not. Yeah. So you got to run AK right around the stadium, but after every kilometer you run, you run back in and you do an exercise like a ski erg or like a sledge push or whatever. I can say I'm on, but it's been, it's been designed that obviously you're tired enough from the running. So you're trying it. You're obviously running a bit faster. But when you do the exercises, those exercises designed in order to make it even harder for the next run. So like a skier having to bend down as you take so it's hard to get your breath, and then when you go and do the sledge push, it's heavy. So they need your legs up. So the whole thing is designed to kill you. But it's I don't know, let's say the people you've been talking about might do it for an hour and 30 minutes. Okay. Or something like that. The pros are doing it in 49, 50, which is unbelievable. I did a doubles last year there. We got those penalties, but I think we would have ended up in about 118 something, I think if we hadn't got penalties, not only trying to finish, but it's trying to do it in the are you trying to do in a best time. So do you want to go back and do it in another time. So you have different categories. You got doubles, which I did, and then you got singles, men or women. Then you got those two of you do it. Yeah, you just do exactly the same time you're running it and doing all the exercise. But you take turn, you take turns and the relay the actual activity as opposed to the running. So anyway, it's really enjoyable, but it is literally grown. It's flat, unbelievably achievable, big, but more so for the UK. So it started in Germany and it hit the UK. What, three years ago? Fresh years ago now what I want. I bought a ticket on the first year and that was just literally went on the website, buy a ticket, and then the second year it was a ballot and luckily we got through the ballot. So I was like, great, we'll get a ticket. And then this year I've tried to get it twice and pointless. There's not even a queue. Is 9000 people in front of me in the queue and buy a ticket with Eagles, like I said, yeah, yeah. To get to the opening. But then Alice, Kyle's partner, she's here is the hell is on. Yeah, yeah. She she she's really good. I was going to ask you to do a partner with her, so I was actually like rather good actually do some training, but she's with an affiliate gym so that she gets her tickets earlier than everyone else. When she went on, those 7000 people in front of her who get the Earlybird ticket. Wow. You never getting on? No. So everyone's leaving the UK like you just said to that guy. You went running with it last night, so he's having to go to Walsall to do it. I'm not. I'm not traveling to Europe to go and do it right. Yeah. But he's make the weekend. If I was making a weekend of it I'll be the only case. But in the UK we're so fit in it. Then you go away and do a no. And to watch the CrossFit in Madrid. Okay. I went to watch the CrossFit games. I've not been away to do a I've had. Why did you go to Horrocks Manchester? Oh that was that. You went to Manchester for the weekend. Yeah. I'm sorry cuz, so. Yeah, but anyway I see so the branding side of this and this is a podcast I want to listen to because he sort of touches on it apparently, is that he's grown so quick in the UK. So they're now having to they're struggling. There's a problem head office. They're going abroad. This is a problem because it's not going to be long between. So forums have all started up now complaining about it. That's bad news. Spreads quicker than good news isn't it. Just I've already got a point. So from like you know I'm a, I'm a fit mid-forties guy but I'm not Uber Uber fit I can't just, I can't just turn up a high rise and go and run away. Yeah. Let's give it a go. I want to go and do it. Yeah, probably. So from my point of view, my, my whole training when I did the last one has to change. Yeah. You've got to. You've got to get used to running for, doing endurance for an hour. They had, obviously the YouTube video of the fittest woman in the world from CrossFit. She did it. What was her name? To to me to take that to me. She turned up. Well, no, she didn't turn up. She found. Obviously, she's famous. So she got a fitness coach who specializes in high rise, do a training for her. She came third in the women's pros. Nice. Good for doing it. But she was, like, the longest workouts I ever do at 20 minutes. This is like nails, but I think she's wanting to do more. She wants to win all that. But you've got to train for it. So now I'm so I'm sort of going, well, if I'm going to have to train trained how to, to run long distances, run short distances, bring my exercise in it. Yes. For my fitness levels. But you want to sort of aim for something like, fuel long distance running. There's going to be so many people like me, all the people at the affiliate. So it's become a very affiliate, like CrossFit. Yeah. All those affiliates aren't getting their tickets. So then they're going to be, well, what's the point in coming three nights a week to here? We're doing all this stuff and I get this fitness hype. But what where it's gone. At the beginning I was looking at going, oh, this is brilliant because anyone can do it. Yeah. So it was really a lot of people were saying how accessible. Yeah. Now CrossFit was brilliant because anyone can do it. If you got injured it was a lot. It was a lot harder. But when you have the open which is still anyone can do the open, but now it's got to the point that not everyone can do rocks because you can't get into the thing. What's the solution? Well, they have every single place they do it. They have to hire out full time. I mean, the amount of people wanting tickets there are now open Fridays that also it's a Friday. So each place now is a Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Now they're bringing wanting to bring in Mondays. It's going to be like the only way of doing it is to have multiple stadiums all over the country. What's the benefit of doing the high rocks? What are you doing for fun and fitness? Aren't you? No, I mean the actual event. From whose point of view can attend it. So you can go to a gym today with Alison, because it's part of being in that whole community and doing it right and pushing yourself. Yeah. No. Yeah. All that sort of stuff. So, I was going to I was going to leave something to next week. So anyway, it's about. So the branding side, watch this space. I think they're going to do thing. It's going to affect their brand. Yeah. Because there's a BBC article here that has to come out higher ups and says the biggest concern is where the hierarchy is going to play for its own goods and risks losing elements of these out of its accessibility events for regional areas and not needing kind of a center. A everywhere in the UK so popular that they have to have a lottery to get a ticket. I think if any kind of to get into travel, even into Germany and Italy, for the chance to get into the UK races is super small and I said some people are getting like more tickets to a race where there's lot the people are missing out every single time. But that's just the luck of the draw. There's nothing you can do about like, you know, the ones abroad will start filling up because all the Brits will be going over there to. Yeah, it's by all their tickets, you know. So from a great business point of view because how much is a ticket. Last year was £94 and now was 130. These aren't like my races are like I get the racist I'll forget it already. But yeah, like the one I've just signed up for the arc of attrition for January next year. That's the really that's the you've wanted to go into for a long time. It's not like the hardest ultra run. No, it's it's hard. It's in January on the, coastline of Cornwall. Up and down. Was there a month or something when Mont Blanc is. I need to get stones to get there. That's why I'm going to Austria in August. Stones? That's something that you collect from. Collect from all the races, obviously. And then you get a ballot. Yeah. Is that show? That is that is that to show your commitment to. No, no, it's to go into a lottery. Same thing. All right. But Mont Blanc UTM is the same UTM. They're buying up all these smaller races. And it's their roster. And then you get stones to then to go in to the, you know, to get to the World Cup live, vultures. But all people are sort of a lot the, the pros are actually not going there now because it's very similar. It's too busy. Like, you know, there used to be only a thousand people in the last race lot for an hour, a thousand people they put for the mountain, you know, you just in cuz you're not running a water. I shouldn't bloody cuz in front of of these other races, if you get behind like I'm doing, I'm doing the panel on barrier in again in May or June. Come might not do that, but I know there's a the first five K after the first two and a half three K I've got you know share in climate. It's just single line all be that in the top 20 now in our first recap. Because you know how to deal with the beginning of the race to get ahead of everyone. Because I don't want to be stood on just a wall. You have to you will have to go a lot faster pace for the first two and a half K yeah, yeah. I'll just I'll just be go be. Oh it's just be this whole top 2025. And then once you get to that high close that a walk up. Oh yeah. You can't. This is you. I'll probably scramble up some of that, but yeah, I'll be. Yeah. But most of the people, if I was at the back like I did last time when I did it, rob you when you were in 20 minutes. Just do you know, because you get behind some, you know, some slower person. Yeah. You know, every Yeah. Pain in the ass. Yeah. So that's my. So that's my, that's my thing on high Rock. So now how do you deal with that? It was the same. What. We've been both listening to the Snapchat guy. Yeah. His interview. You know he's had huge growth isn't he. You know they, they they struggle for a bit at the beginning. And then it was just like he reached out actually about Ripper and just sort of give me some some tips, which was nice. April Fool's wisdom. Yeah. So but yeah, I did an April Fool's. Yeah, I actually did an April Fool's yesterday that I think was a sort of no, no it is Michael and I think is utter don't get in a mood about it, Michael. But linked in. Everyone's on there. I love it when the BBC news do it. When they do the occasion, when they do that, you know, it's. I can pull the whole can I timeline. Yeah. Sorry. Was all right. So Quinn's reading book. Quinn's reading book, talking about Quinn's reading book. She had a listen. I do? Yeah, I found a really hard to read as you wanna do. You do you does she when you reading for her. Is she like that to meter reading? I'm good because at this point her sentence is already easy. So it's fine. And there's like two sentences per page is perfect for me. But one of her books was a trip to Scotland, and the trip was all about going to a castle in Scotland, called Castle, car Castle. And was it named Castle in the book? No, but I knew it was about the Loch Ness. And there's only one castle on the Loch Ness, which is? She has this. Then the teacher know. You know, you told Chris about this because of the castle. So I put it out. But I said, look in the in the teacher's book. I was like, because I have to. I have to write notes. So I just like, this is like a castle just got to you. Do you, do I to write the notes and I write my thoughts. But but I normally make a joke and I. It took me about 12 weeks until they actually acknowledge my jokes. Yeah. And then when I found out, I was actually quite funny. So I have a little game of it, but April Fools, come from Monday. Tuesday, yesterday, Tuesday. Yes. Yes, I just put, So you have to put how she read. So normally I put, you know, gravity down there. It was Found me. They got to tell it off a lot. And you actually wrote the words. It was Yeah. I'll be. I'm going to top it off, I. I'm good. I'm going to get told off a lot. Yeah, but it's funny because it's April Fool's and she can't read it. So it's five or she actually she pretty good now. She said there's someone to teach graffitied up passes coaches all that says that's as And I'm like, yeah, does it? Oh yeah, yeah. That was my right to walk on in my house, man. I propose, but I'm going to I'm going to get tired of fighting for that. Yeah. But I find it funny. So it's okay. Yeah. Yeah. It it gets worse. Things that can happen in life. Yeah, yeah yeah. So I go and in marketing we're saying this week, well can I just bring one thing up. What do you want? To bring up my new activity. What do you mean, you know activity. I'm a weasel on this as well as always, boss. Yeah, well, I, I can I. Work for next month. So next Monday night. I've been invited to try something out to see how I get on. Is it a physical activity? Physical. Physical activity and it arose from me going to the dentist. So I go to the dentist. Alice does my dentist. Haven't seen that. We haven't seen each other in a long time. But I saw it the other week and I came back in again. Was like, oh, oh. And he's already into his fitness. I said, oh, what you doing? Fitness. He's doing that CrossFit. I was are not any more do a bit high rise. I said well I try a little bit higher ups but I can't get into any. So he was just like, so I was and I said, what are you doing? So just on the gym and then I've got my, the stuff I do on a Monday night. I was like, what do you do on a Monday night? Track and field. Which main track and field. Edmund's got no Stratford. So he said we're looking for new members. Why don't you pop down on Monday night and see how I get on sprint? 400m, long jump, high jump, the whole. The whole works. Basically Jenna style. Like, what's his name? Caitlyn Jenner. Okay, engineer. Basically what she did. So? So I'll pop down, actually. And if I come pop, I'll pop down for this track and feel the spikes on these. If you like it.£120 a year. Is that behind, the grammar school? It's. Yeah, in the grammar school and King's High. Yeah. So I was that I was at three to play football that last weekend. And she said to President Bush, if I knew this other problem, I can actually do this. Yeah. Yeah. So they're really bit. So all the different age groups do it. And all all of the things, I don't know, I haven't got that, I don't know, I've got this same issue. I hope I'm wrong here. Actually. No, I hope I'm wrong. I really hope he's right. I hope policies don't want on him here. I hope this is a total no no no. Just quit. They just quit. They just could you I hope Nick, Rox hub and his little Thai wife I bought so Spanish bikes. Boy, bikes are bright. I wish you had. Here it comes. Right. And it's just basically a load of eight year olds up to, like, lower teens. And the rocks have gone off calling guys high jump, just kicking people out of like, areas. So I'm going to pop up there. The thing I'm most looking forward to getting into a bit, which I was quite good at school. Bit of long jump, a lot of jump on the, 100 meter sprint, which, we've done a few hundred meter sprints in all the time. I'm not too bad at it now. You're not slow. Don't you think it'll be best? Well, I was good. I was quite good at sprinting. We did sprinting. But favor didn't wait. Yeah, that one evening, I was all right of that. And it's not next night, so we might get. He just said, oh, just he just come in. He said he gets very competitive. He said, don't come up and get competitive because stop me. It wanted here. He's only here because he got most people just know from of tearing a hamstring. He's had so many people damage hamstring think I'm looking to go to sell. We just filmmaker. It's just like making his. But I couldn't go on film because I want to get involved that I know I mean I was thinking of mentioning to you because it might. When is it, would it help with your sprint, with your 100% work? Monday, not Monday. Nice. What if you get in? I don't know, I'll find out. I sent me an email I need to email this woman. So I'm coming up with a film about Nick how to do it. He talks about that like he's walks out but he's well into his time is doing is 400 400m. And he was telling me his time. And then I told Ice about Chris. So he gets really good task. We're talking about strap for five K. And I said what sort of time? I seems like I mean he's like, tell you what, I'll, I'll text him, so I'll send it to 17. He's six his fastest at the moment in 1650. Yeah. He did one last week of 1702 or seen. He's a proper runner. Even so. So was was like well he would he would now break our record at Stratford. Yeah. No that's in cross country by the way. Okay. So that's that is cross country is five K via his. Yeah. His devices. Yep. That's that's five K on a cross country. No not on a track. Not on a trial. So he's 615. He's he's so sexy about Nick. I know too much. Like he's a proper run. All right. So put him on a track. I'd be quite. He'd lose pretty, about 25 seconds. Wow. Yeah. No. Is super. Chris is a proper runner. Like proper runner. I know, I know, he's a year on and I've never done one. If I did one today, my watch will tell me this. What was mine coming out. What did I do? And you shot 21, 28, wasn't it some, Yeah. My watch is telling me today that I would do, five k in 1940, but, Wow, you'd be quicker than that if I. But I'm slow at the moment, so 2720 is a good. All right. I got I got to do them. I must have been 20 to 20. I would have been 21 for my say about it. Yeah. So he'd probably die. And that's not being disrespectful if I haven't. I've been getting back into my running as I go through these phases, don't I? And if I were to do five K now, I'll be it would kill me. But you just get used to it, you know, you'd finish it, but I wouldn't be going at a pace. I went with guys 10 to 10 K and I was talking Fraser again, like he was bit puffy at some stages. He's a big guy and he's on small guy. But I think we did it in like six minute kilometers. You know, I just tried if you just time goes you off, I kind of don't know. And I was like, yeah. Do you do? Even when you go by, it's even sometimes I struggle. Even if I'm doing five K, I go, I'm, I'm sore from all this is just, I'm just I did what I did the other week. I did some like five. I did like eight. Okay. I've never felt a sweatshirt for awful. I was, oh this is crap. Yeah. You fit sometimes you fit and you just you just hope you're on those old days when you do big events, okay? It's game time. It's game time. Do you feel do you feel you in it? Do you ever start running and go, no, because my competitive nature is just like, is that I'm not even sure. Savings to start on. Did I send you the picture, though? What? How they call me. Look at, yeah. So you put it out. I saw that I just could just know you were on side on this. Yeah, I just someone just took a problem. This guy's fine. Yeah. So I'll find out the times, but I'm up for. We're doing about 100m, a long jump and stuff that I should try and do. The hurdles and all that. You know, they do that. I'll. I'll. I'll touch that. Not exactly what I read on and sometimes I'll try and do it, but I don't on my own. But, you know, a sudden. All right, can you do it in 27 dead that a 27. I could was anything I think I second in the bleep test. Yes. But that was ten years ago. Second time now you do you do lose it. You that's that's exactly what you do. Do lose it in milk I find that's the one with running actually more than like talking about fitness on this podcast market podcast. No way. But rather than like lifting weights, you can go back down, but you can kind of stay there with it. But when I find it fascinating running how like last summer because I then lose it in the winter it gets colder, but in the summer I'll get up to a point where I'm doing like I'll come around my little three K route that I do, and I'm like sometimes fading and I feel like I've actually, like, sprinted. The whole thing got really good time and then I'll leave it while I did it the other day and I was just like, oh my God, oh my God. It takes about two weeks to get it going again. It takes if you were around, if you turn around three times a week for two weeks, after two weeks you feel like you're back to normal. It's really weird. Yeah, it is weird, isn't it? Yeah. But like, yeah, I mean, the distance I feel it, I feel it in my feet, my ankles, everything. Try to in 90 I've, I've got nine my this week nine. So I've got Rose of Shire race on Saturday

in Daventry which starts at 8: 34:28

00 which is late for an ultra which is a pain and it's 90 4k. Wow. And something I don't know. It's I don't know what the elevation is. So roughly. I want to do it. And I ran the I was like six nine. Yeah. No, it's it's like the hour on this. It's sort of it I am sorry sorry sorry. So for about for about for, you know, worst case 5:00 in the afternoon. So I've got that, you know, of a day. But then I've gone the Sunday I've sat out in the Regency tank with these like, oh yes, a Regency, isn't it? Yes. Doing legs are going to be very good, are they? Not at all sort of mad as way. Are you going to just beat them? Although I wouldn't be able to, I wouldn't, you know who's running it? I had a Adam's a good runner upstairs. I'll pop older boy. Yeah. You know, he's a good guy. Older in 45. He's a good runner. Yeah. I'll. I'll have to be Marcia then. Yeah. And so she's into every now. Yeah. So I'll, I'll be just trudging to the back hoping that my legs aren't that rest. Play. So marketing we've seen the marketing I've seen. Well you sort said jaws, which is a bit of a feral. Right. It's all right. But, oh, you in the ads. I'm seeing more and more at the moment, which I just think are hilarious. Are the Ricky Gervais smoke, vodka ads. Okay. I just wanted to see what was that brilliant we saw on the podcast. That brilliant. The toxins. Good. Because Nick drinks. So, you know, you nailed that. Yeah. So they're just brilliant because he's got, like, he's got the guy who is talking to you about overweight is basically saying it's like reverse psychology. He's like, don't drink because drink is actually good for you. And you'll end up looking like this back. so I think it's just the way it delivers, obviously only delivering to people who trade can over a certain age. And it's I want to buy a bottle. In fact, I'm going to buy a bottle. You're going to buy a ball. I'm going to buy a bottle of his vodka. Nice. Can't remember the name of it. I can't tell you that. It's it's like something I just can't remember. Dutch. Dutch barn. I was thinking outhouse. Dutch barn. It's also like my head. Dutch barn. So I'm going to buy a bottle that is not a Dutch oven. Not like that. So if you see the other advert, I can't think of anything. It's not verb is. She is snoring at night. And she was saying that the couple in bed. Yeah. It's snowing and I got. And she, she's like that. She just goes wow that's running. It's like. Hey what's up? So he leans over towards a pulls a duvet, a pattern. She's a you see a little face is like, you know, pulls that and then it's just like just pulls to do that. You trouser and you just legs go, you know this guy. I've never given my partner a Dutch oven. I don't that I before before day is not talking to me. It's not something it's not on my bucket list. All right. So my bucket list to do. But I just found a calendar. One on a bucket list. Yeah, yeah. Do South Africa. India? Yeah, but I do hierarchies get ocean. Yeah, that's a marketing. No, no, I think we've gone I can't I'm like, I love as you know, I love a free eBay any time like I it's I'm learning. I just don't care about my email. Like I don't know if any of you are more precious with your email, but, like, you know, giving your email out. Yeah. Oh, you're one of these is valuable to you, is that. No, no, no, I'd give it to the man in the street was like, what's your email? Just I don't really care. My Michael at veterans. Yeah. Did you give him that one? No. Not my what? On my personal, I saw an ad for which I think is one of the worst brand names I've ever seen. That, pants company. As in, like, boxers. Now, on that ass is the name of the brand. Are you wearing them up? I think you call them on now on the subscription, I have, like. Yeah. Oh, my ass. Yeah, that's a terrible brand name, though. In it, it doesn't really what I've ever known. Nothing good because they've got a thing where it's basically like you put your email in, they just send you a free pair of pants. Yeah. And if you like it, they'll send you another one. Not obviously, if you start paying just to pay, delivery time for them. No, not for that. Not for the first one. How many do you have? What, a month? Yeah. No, I stopped it. So the first one, you don't have to see literally just put your email in. They send you a pair and then it's 11, 11, 99 a month which is in euros. So presumably now do you have to sign up to get that free pair and you'll automatically go into another? Well to get the second one you do. But to get the first, you don't have to sign up to any of them because they say it's on its way now and I can just cancel and I'll just get them anyway. So you get a free pair. It's good. A lot of money getting, you know, worn down. So the the holes in them and the plastic splitting. Yeah. You know where it goes all, like faded in the crotch and all that, but yellow. Brown. Good. There. Yeah. I just saw an out and about and it's good that you about, you know, about time you got, friends, which is good. Get some proper man's boxers. Good for you. Yeah. No, Michael, I've got loads pretty good. Yeah, actually, stock links are too many. It was just an advert was just like this, and I was on me, like, I'm not many of those around nowadays, so. So that's not because they don't know that they are TV properly, so that, I've also seen another ad which is we talk about simmer. There's a lot they're using. You might and they went on to their on good morning good morning Britain. And they're using that also all the time is that's where that's what. That's what made me get it in the first place. Oh simmer because you saw you saw the advert on it's you saw them on like my mum of mum was downstairs on the TV. She was on all the talk about those Helen game changer. That is for them. And you know what that would be the advertising that's got them seen by someone to get them on to. Good morning. Because I said for a while I was trying. I'm like, oh, they're not comparing all these people. Yeah I hope I simmer. So I you know what? I should trust them. I guarantee that someone up in that production team, when they were talking about, oh, we need to get this, we need someone on to do this, brother. I bet it was one of them going. I have similar bread in their advertising. It's pretty much get them on. But it's but it how it started, they were like, they're the new kids on the block with the stuff. But I tried that. But now stop trying. There's a new light it in, you know, it was good. Yeah, but they just thought it wasn't really right. Some where I'm at for the price it is. Is it pricey? Yeah. I'm times I'm not sure. How much does it work out. Meal five for 50. Simon's to have it fresh. No, I know, but isn't it. That annoys me with those I work out and I've gone. Right. Okay, so, you know, you get some meals. Yeah. And it's always when I've forgotten to update it. And they sent me something for the other week. I don't get it now, but the other week I go through stages is a bolognaise. I'll go on pasta. I've got mine. Well, if I'm funny with this stuff is like, I like my cooking. As you know, you guys have a glass mouth here. Not that I have. Wear the normal glasses. These are no. The reason is annoy. I'm trying to go through you, like, just cook them out. I know how to cook a lot of things, right? I cosmos I was a pretty good cook. I'm reading instructions with my glasses on how to cook a spaghetti bolognese because it's come from fresh. And then I realized halfway through it what I'm doing. And then I work out that that's cost me £12, and I've got a bit of beef, some pasta and some flavor, you know. You know, they just all the ingredients for about £3. You know that I know, I do know that that's. And it only happens when I've changed, when I'm shoot, when I'm doing these meals. So I get to the post when I do these ones I wouldn't normally know. And that's what we've said before I when, when I used to use it back in the day, I only get stuff, but you wouldn't. I wouldn't like when you forget it. Sometimes you've had a bangers and mash and they've sent you some mashed potatoes and sausages and some beans. It doesn't. You mash the three spuds. Yeah, they have to pay you. I said I painted them, you know, now and I'm like, what am I doing? I'm following a recipe for some. I am now peeled potatoes. Oh okay. They just emailed me every day I don't how do I not come back is it not. And yeah. So yeah. But again my crew you know the craft but like but these things are great. Like I've taken some chicken out for dinner right. I haven't even thought about what I'm going to do. So when I get home I'm going to get my brains gear because Caroline doesn't do any cooking. Yeah. Calendars. Only cooking. So I'm like, what I am, I'm going to cook this. And that's what I love about those things. Even though if you can cook, having something like that three days a week, on the days that you don't weekends, you got time Friday night, maybe go tomorrow, got a few glasses so I can get pizza. But the rest of the time it's all I need. I don't want to think yeah. And they are brilliant. Fair play to them. Yeah. I thought about going back to Mindful Chef there. That is that the when you look at what is the when you complain about the portions of for you like is not of me in it. It comes off the gusto. I was like a star. Yeah appalling. I would have both put I would need both. I would need both portions of the protein. It's my dinner. It's just I usually, in fact, with gusto. I'm a HelloFresh. Mindful chefs not is different is actually really good. Portions of that proteins and stuff and really good quality is I will buy extra chicken and have another chicken breast to go with those meals. Yeah. So that doesn't that's not I just go to Stratford Garden Center now and just get me for now. Risotto where's the Stratford Garden center past Waitrose. Oh you got there do you. Yeah. Oh okay I go to so I just have one a lot that Waitrose. It's just the anything that's really close to the drive past just for reference at Christmas time I well my last me diet I decided I, I haven't got my kids at home anymore because I'm older. If I'm going to do anything, I need to invest a bit more in the quality of the meat I have because I eat a lot of it. So I did some research. The farm at Stratford, you know, the farm place we go for coffee, their stuff, their meat, really, really high quality. So it has the farms it's from I've done, I've actually rehabbed everything about. To not come up by the opposition and buy the Mercedes garage up that way, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's what it's for your right to go there. All the chicken breasts. Three for two. All the packs. You can now have the fresh stuff and you get all they've do a load of packed stuff. Ready up. Just like free for £12. Really good. Like up there. Really good on the chick. Honestly, Caroline doesn't cook. She just has got put on the table. And the last two nights she's gone. This chicken's really good. They beef. That's the proper free range I beef beefier because I get four cell lines for £12 at that place. Yeah, but I'm not caning you. I'm not carrying everyone else. I'm just questioning where my money comes from. Now I want to know where it's come from. I want to know those chickens are running around fields and not in a thing I want to know. I want a grass fed beef. Because the thing is, I don't spend a lot on anything else. So it's like now I want to have some quality kids. I'm going to feed three kids. Two kids, hey, I'm feeding. Very good. So I'll be using the, catchy name. Yeah, well, I can tell the difference that time. You can. You can tell the difference. Oh, yeah, but that's fine. I'm content. Yeah. Generally my content. My my mate. So that's it. 45 minutes to come up to about a bit of mark in the middle. So yeah I think our listeners like a little bit of yeah. Okay. We had a good we had some good we had some good views on the clips recently, by the way. I can give you some high volumes. High volumes. Danger, danger. So we've had. Our tax nightmare got 7000. That was me having a moan about. Oh, sorry. That was you moaning about the tax thing. We had you moaning about you. So that's 11. That's 12,000, 12,000, 12,000. Yeah. I mean, look, I need to start putting these on my own channel or they don't work. Can we try them? We need to try them on another 12,000 for the UK versus US business. Yeah. No. It's good. So what are we going to do, Michael? Can we do this tomorrow. Can you send me. We'll put into that forward. Ready to use the top for. And let's poach those for you at sea okay. Yeah. But I'm going to tell you now it won't get any more than 700 next, next week and I won't. I don't know why I reckon, I reckon I've, I've got an issue of your face on that. Okay. So the only thing I can think of that now, it's not interested. It's literally got your recognition I reckon. They reckon I reckon they think it's like a knockoff of makeup man or some. I didn't see any makeup. So now if you want, you know of you. I was going to ask. You might be right without the fake doctor thing. Well, I think he's impersonating a health professional. If it wasn't any different when I'm not wearing a cloak. No, a cloak. I know you're not a wizard, Harry. Right. I'll see you next week. Thanks for tuning in to the podcast. Make sure to drop a like and a comment to let us know your thoughts. 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