Still a great time, but I feel you. Legs couldn't move, got hit by a truck at mile 18... Keep going dude, you'll get it next time year!

It sounds like this time you genuinely pushed your body to it's limit. That's awesome. While it's unfortunate that you didn't hit the time you were after, you still left yourself with no "what ifs." You gave it your best shot; pushed your body to it's limit and that's really all we can ever ask of ourselves.

The best marathoners don’t peak until their 30’s. With 4 more years of aerobic development you’re gonna smash the OTQ time for 2028.

Michael not knowing what "carrying the boat" is a boomer moment. But seriously, nothing's more respectable than giving it a go.

Seeing all of the people waddling in the airport post race was so funny. It was also great meeting you!

Thank you for posting!! Character is about rising from adversity, not just crushing everything. You are honest and hardworking will make results.

Inspirational, Adam. Thank you for sharing your journey with us, even though things did not go as planned. You display true strength!

I seriously appreciate you sharing your journey through it all. It’s so inspiring! Still an insane time, can’t wait to see what you accomplish next year!!

4 marathons in a year? Sounds like ultra is calling your name! 😉 great race Adam, it’s been fun to watch. See you on the roads!

I was cheering you on watching the live tracker. Keep at it! 💪🏼 Love your content.

Watching your journey has been so inspiring man. We’ll all be cheering you on for whatever’s next!

Great effort Adam. Been inspiring watching your journey and it is so awesome that you pushed through the pain and still finished with a great time, especially given that this is your 4th marathon attempt of the year. Love the content, keep killing it out there

Congrats man. I can hear the relief and accomplishment in your voice. Enjoy the time off!

Great effort Adam was awesome following along towards the potential of an OTQ. Excited for my own races in 2024 and looking forward to following your journey next year as well!

Glad to see you went into this race healthy and happy! Excited to continue to follow your journey. Keep stacking those miles!

The mental fortitude is next level sir. Elite level-headedness. Salute.

im so proud of you dude. Thanks for making videos and motivating us all !

Dude you’re so inspiring and your hard work makes me want to succeed in running. I’m also at a crucial moment heading into Senior track season in high school with no offers and having to hit a time to make Region and finish out my competitive career.

Great seeing you at the finish--I'm sure you'll come back stronger in the future!

All the best for next year! You still ran such an insane time, can't ever imagine even going under 3 hours.. under 2hours 30mins must be insanely fast and supperrr hard.

Good work Adam! You have inspired me! I had recently started cross country this fall and I loved it! Running is so fun! 🤩

You're an amazing runner. Thanks for sharing your journey.

Let's go Adam! I've been waiting for this vid since the marathon ends

it's been thrilling to follow along. excited for what's next

CIM this year was my first marathon. I’m 50, ran a sub-4 (3:54) and am never doing that again! I don’t know how you elites do it.

Great job, Adam! 👏 That's what is all about: attempting, didn't work? We come back stronger! 💪 Thanks for the motivation! I started a journey and my goal is to qualify for Boston Marathon and run it 2 years from now (when I'm 40 years old! 😅) Get some nice rest and then laser-focused on that OTQ! 🏃💨

Well said brother. Love your videos. I’m also learning the running content game. You’ll get your OTQ. Keep grinding bubba

Keep believing in yourself and your training. You are a big motivation for me and are still insane, like bro, if I could run a 2:25 marathon...that would be a dream come true

Really enjoyed watching your journey, your a huge inspiration to a lowly club runner like myself!

We often forget about the hills of CIM because of its net downhill

Chin up champ! Good things are coming your way!

Hill (even downhill) marathons are a different beast to your legs. Solid work.

so glad you finished, great work!

Great seeing you out there, keep it up!

The amount of people that came up to you at CIM and talked about how you have inspired them is a testament to what you're doing. No one relates to a sub 2:10 marathoner. We want to be like Adam Wood, i'm here to see you succeed!!! I can't to see the break through.

Great effort in a great year of training. Be proud!

Congrats on finishing the race!! My biggest takeaway was that there needs to be more miles during the week to keep building the endurance for that last part of the race and so your legs are conditioned.

Sometimes you put in a lot of effort, but things don't always work out as planned. I hope you'll come back stronger. I just want to say I’m proud of you keep work hard the results will come soon.

great job bro! Keep running enjoy the journey!

great job dude! don't quit keep working!

Good job shooting for that OTQ! I was there as well, shooting for a 3:15-3:20 for my first marathon. My 'wheels' came off completely at mile 18 as I cramped and struggled all the way to the finish. Quads especially.. downhill was tough and i agree completely that the last 6 miles were brutal.

I was at the CIM this year too! Such a gorgeous run, but I also totally hit the wall at mile 23

You'll get 'em next time! keep up the positive attitude.

looking forward to seeing what's next!

Great time still Adam. I ran CIM this year as well and while I am mich slowler I had the same experience. Especially about the "tight rope", I felt my legs were gonna fall off if I went a little bit faster. Need to do more hills!

You did amazing! Even though you didn’t get it, it was still a great journey and a great race

keep making these amazing videos adam!

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I was the guy that recognized you when you all were sitting in front of the capital. I was the tall Hispanic kid😂It was cool seeing you! Definitely going to continue watching your content and following your journey!

You a run a whole hour faster than me man, you got this. We got this, keep it up!

In 4 yrs u can definitely make it man don’t give up!!!

Proud of you. In time things will come together and it’ll be beautiful.

Great job Adam I know you didn’t qualify but hey you did your best so proud of you on what your doing amazing job 👍🏼👍🏼

Stay carrying the boats!! ✊🏾

I'm not sure who you are but I just wanted to say, I just watched your video and I feel so motivated to go out and run. You have one new subscriber!

Also your wife is so sweet. Love the flu balm!!!!!

awesome work

You’re a beast! Period

You got this Adam!

I was going for sub3 at the age 44 so Heyy don’t beat urself you did great chin up .. I plan on running 2:45 for the year of 2024 so let’s hope this a lil motivation for both of us 🖤🏁

Very proud of you.

Proud of you!

Great video !!

Hope to see you at the Utah valley in June.

If you did not set big goals, we would not watch. Have a great off season!

love your vids❤

Great running Adam!! Best of luck in 2024. What’s the song you use in the intro and outro?

You did amazingggg

all good! Just another year to traine

I would love to see run race in the track!!!

if you still end up going for it next year, no doubt you will grab it!

Amazing time!! Can I ask what your training plan was like

Here is my 2 cents and take it from a 50 year old who has run about 10 of my last marathons with negative splits: you are running your first half about 4-5 secs faster per mile than u should. You, like every other young runner, think that putting 30 secs to a min in the bank on first half is way to go. It isn’t. It’s the other around. You slow yourself down about 30 to 45 secs for first 1/2-thats 3-4 secs per mile slower than average pace. Several things happen: you psychologically ease into race making it feel super easy and setting yourself up to attack second half; you can more easily focus on your nutrition needs and don’t burn through as much fuel; you keep your core temp down which is huge; you minimize the muscle damage taking place, etc… once you get to the half, you can focus on steadily sticking to overall average pace or maybe a couple secs faster and when you get to 10K to go, no holds bar, but depending on where you are in terms of time, you can even hold it steady to mile 22 and then really attack. I’ve negative split by about 45 secs to a min a a half at almost all my last 10 marathons. And most of my negative split has come down to the last 10K. And I’ve run CIM about 4 times so I know the course. Not this year, I ran valencia the same day. Negative split by 1:06.

Great job. Those last 5 miles are killer why do you think I told you to hop on the Kiptum training method. Keep dialing in your diet, removing fats and raising carb intake. Keep the inflammation down and keep grinding

Nice video❤

Hey man, could you make a video for people who are trying to get into running just for fitness, never ran track or xc in their life?

5k !!!!! Lets gooo

Sorry for not recognizing the others good job on the race I was one of the twins at the end😂 of

You’ll be back.

There’s a power in failure. How will you bounce back? 💪🏽

Question bro I did 1km repeats yesterday (4) of them Wanted to do 6 but it was too intense Heart rate was about 95% of max Is there anything higher benefit if u run the intervals faster than slower

Ok, so what is “carrying the boats”?

Better than I could do lol

Good job nonetheless. It was a rough race for me too.

Where did you get your earrings from the into clip???

Adam you can run your a** off bro heavily inspired by you 🙏🏾

What's your running weight? And height

I was tracking u 😣😣

we all know marcus could run a 4:10 off of 3 weeks of training

A very cute boi

R u going to the olympic trials race to watch?

NT.

Pfft, you didn’t make it in 1 year? L I’m kidding of course, insane progress and good luck in the future

Seems to me like your calorie intake wasn’t sufficient and you ran out of glycogen stores

Why dont you try to run a little slower and atleast finish stronger instead of DNF or bonking? My confidence would be at record lows if i did 4 builds where most of them was in the end fail

i still cant get over the fact that you fluked your first marathon so hard that you still cant get back to it 😂

I think it’s as simple as you not putting enough volume in. You’re a 14:00 5k guy, and my best is 14:20. I simply ran a lot more than you and qualified. You got what it takes to be sub 2:18. Just need to run more.

Did Michael shit his pants? Was it weird sitting next to him on the bus after?

Sorry man, but I think you should put down a longer training period before trying again. 4 marathons in a year is way too much. The best athletes in the world does maximum 2, and that’s for a reason. If you want to be an elite athlete, you need to act like one. From October to April is purely about putting in the work, and then find a race, and put everything you have built up in that one.

Have you ever considered becoming Ethiopian? It’d probably improve your time by ten minutes just like that. You’re welcome