The running brothers of Team Ingebrigtsen have set high goals for themselves.
The day I run faster than any white person ever has.
Then I think people will come to understand what my capability really is.
Keep going! Come on!
The father, Gjert, trains his children extremely hard towards the major championships.
The path to the Olympics in Rio has many hurdles to overcome
The margin between success and fiasco is minimal.
Is it going well? Filip had a tough day.
Will Norway's most dedicated athletics family overcome their next big challenges?
When sickness and injury occur.
Can they maintain their focus with a new family member in the house?
Enjoying yourself?
Just enjoying. Yum, yum, yum.
Tone and Gjert are parents for the seventh time.
Come on now.
Everyone in the family shows up to help take care of little William.
And Martin, who has chosen to leave athletics, has the most time to spare for his little brother.
Hi. Hey.
It is always fun to have a new person in the family.
That was how I felt when Ingrid came along, in any case.
I tended her all the time.
Because mom had to go back to work and dad was totally busy with training.
So I tended Ingrid quite a lot for a long time.
In the end, she call me mom actually.
I like kids though, so it doesn't matter to me.
Back to your dad.
Hi! Hey friend!
Gjert has been a new father many times.
But this time, he has decided to do things differently than he has in the past.
I have never taken paternity leave.
More than one day while Tone was at the hospital.
Like that.
I see that I have just enough time for those who are older.
My ability to be with the little ones becomes less and less.
So in order to get my share while he is little, I will take the time off this time.
No, no more work talk.
There is just so much to do at work.
It never ends.
When you don't get paid, then it gets covered.
But in any case, I struggle not doing anything.
Winter is no off season for Team Ingebrigtsen.
It is now they will build up the foundation for the coming season.
But for Henrik, the intense training has had consequences.
Overuse injuries is one of the things runners are most at risk for.
The training and the strain we are subject to is very one-sided.
It can destroy careers.
So his injury won't destroy all of his preparations for the world championships, Henrik has to undertake alternative training.
Here paternity leave does not apply.
Gjert closely follows Henrik's interim training plan.
What would you say is Henrik's greatest weakness?
Lack of symmetry in his muscle structure.
His knees point in and his shin points to the right.
It is a much better line from ankle to hip on the leg you are standing on now.
What is remarkable is that where he has been injured is the strongest side.
It always goes across.
Problem here will turn into problem there.
Problem there will be a problem there.
Always diagonal.
There was an earlier colleague of mine who said it very well.
For every joyful day you receive on Earth you pay with sorrows.
Every time we should be happy, he comes and pours on those words.
Don't be too happy, a blow is coming.
There is nothing that says that the sorrow can't come first.
That would say that next season will be unbelievably good, because now everything is going wrong.
Jakob has turned thirteen years old.
He is at the start of a promising track career.
But junior high and track are a demanding combination.
[Speaking German]
Jakob, will you read? Okay.
[Jakob reading German text]
I think school can be a bit of a drag, but I like to get things done.
I actually want to be the best in school too.
Jakob has a strong drive to win.
That comes out just as much as school as on the track.
He is very concerned with doing well with every area he engages in.
It is right that in the school hallways he is competitive too.
For the first time Jakob will miss school.
To participate in Team Ingebrigtsen commitments.
For two weeks, he will participate in hard training.
Together with his two brothers in Portugal.
It is fun that everyone else has to suffer in school while I get to train where its warm.
But I will have my books with me so I can stay caught up.
I packed your sunscreen.
One 25 and one 30.
Mom! I'm not an old lady.
I don't need spf 25.
Would you rather be sunburned then? Yes.
You would not. Yes, I would.
You need to finish packing. You are running out of time.
How many shirts do you have here?
You don't need this many. I do. Oh my god!
Jakob, we need to leave now because there is traffic on the way.
Come on. Full speed.
Now I will train quite a bit more than I usually do at home.
I will start doing some days with two workouts.
I have also never done several days in a row.
So I'm not sure how I will adapt to it.
You should take more running t-shirts. What shirts?
Now you need to get ready and we will go.
You need to be quiet.
As the youngest man of the running brothers, this training camp is a golden opportunity for Jakob.
To see what the life of a top athlete demands.
Even though Gjert is not there, he is always only a phone call way.
Hello, can I run with Filip and them?
Can I talk to Filip? No.
Quit naming me, Henrik is the one who is responsible for you.
Hi. What are you guys doing?
No, Jakob just wondering how long he should... Do you need something from me?
Can you use this run to show him the route?
Then drop him off and you can keep going when you have run about 8 km or so.
Okay, bye.
It is really cool to be with Henrik and Filip at training camp.
They are quite a bit older than me.
I have always wanted to be close with them.
Okay, you run with us for 8 km and then head back.
He won't have that much of a training increase while he is here.
It is more to live a bit of the life of a top athlete.
To see what is it like to train twice a day and eating and sleeping.
I believe it is more of a learning process for him.
I don't think I can use it.
It smells terrible.
I know.
I don't know why they smell.
I don't want to smell them.
Take them.
Take them away. No.
What yourself. I need to fart though.
There is his sock. I don't want the sock.
Get it away from me.
Time between training should be recovery and you should eat.
Do everything so that the next workout can be completed in the way that it should.
The life Filip and I live here is actually quite similar to home.
We do the same things for the most part.
But it is not the same as Jakob has at home with school and everything.
I think he gets a bit bored in between
He was maybe a bit surprised at the discipline.
Far from Norwegian winters and Gjert's eagle eye.
The brothers enjoy the opportunity to defy one of his clear restrictions.
It is ice cold.
It is ice. Ready, set, go.
Shall we all just...
Filip is a coward.
You are going to chicken out.
You are pissing yourself. I'm not afraid.
I can see that you are.
What about you. Let's see you do it. You don't want to either.
That is why we run.
I am ready now.
It is important that you know if this is a life you think you are okay with living.
Wake up, train, and lunch.
Another training session and then it is dinner.
Then in bed until it is time to wake up again.
Today I woke up at quarter to eight.
Then we ate and then ran eight.
Then we went swimming.
At the pool? Yeah, there too.
Not by yourself? No.
You can't do that. No.
Don't swim alone.
It isn't warm enough and there is a violent undertow.
That's good. Bye. Bye.
What I have learned after many years of Gjert as father and coach.
We don't lie about not having done it, we just don't say anything indicating that we did.
That's just how it is.
That Gjert doesn't know, we don't need to tell Gjert.
There are intense workouts in Portugal.
And Henrik is back in top form.
But for Jakob, who is only 13, it is hard to stay with his brother's tough efforts.
He begins to feel the toll on his body.
I can feel it in my heel.
I've had it once before, then it was growing pains.
That is certainly not anything then.
You should talk to dad about it.
If it gets worse, you need to ease up.
My heel... really hurts.
You need to call dad.
Hello. We are doing repeats on the track now.
Hmm. So my foot is hurting.
Did you feel it come on suddenly or..
I have felt it some recently.
Put on your jogging shoes and do two more and see if it gets any better.
Yeah. Okay.
Bye. Bye.
Of course I notice that dad isn't here so I need to think a bit for myself, and I have Henrik and Filip to look after me.
Does that hurt? Yes, there.
Do you see that?
Yes.
That really hurts.
It isn't all the way in.
There. Yeah.
I have had good experiences with this type of treatment for these injuries so I use it a bit myself as a follow on.
Just need to pretend like you can do it for the most part.
What do you think? Good.
Better? Better.
Yes, yes. Then I have done my job.
It is something I think about a lot. Whether I want to do this.
That is what everyone says.
You need to think through what you are doing and whether I want to keep doing it for years.
I think it will become clear in the next couple of years.
Next year I am allowed to race with the seniors.
Then I hope I can experience a bit of what it is to be Henrik or Filip.
I haven't experienced what they have.
I hope that will make it so I want to keep doing this for many years to come.
To not lose focus on their commitments, Henrik and Filip moved away from the baby care and disrupted sleep at their parents home.
But now there has been one more change in the living arrangements.
To the greatest joy of Filip.
We have a new roommate in the house.
Astrid moved in a week ago.
It has been very fun.
To be together with your girlfriend can either give energy or it can take away energy.
It is important that you continue to focus on the right things.
Gjert has a tendency to blacken things a bit.
In the beginning of Filip's interest in you, "No, that's not happening. Hold on."
"You aren't going to Oslo. You are NOT going to Oslo."
Now it is fine. Now it is okay, in a way.
But if you ask Gjert if this has had negative consequences for Filip.
He certainly has a long list.
You think so? Yes, I know he has one.
But also, it doesn't matter to them.
You PRed in the 1500 when we got together.
Even better with me. I know that.
Yeah, you were the assistant.
And not Gjert, he wasn't even there.
I'll use that, you need to be there for important races.
What you do you think Gjert? "No, nothing"
He's very capably maneuvered through what could have been a minefield, but...
A lot of that has to do with the fact that she is focused on the same things as him.
It isn't surprising that Filip found love on the track.
Astrid is a talented sprinter and has established herself as one of Norway's best at short distances.
She has been very good for Filip.
Because they have both had adversity.
With sickness and injury and everything.
Very good support for each other.
[Headline - "Henrik Ingebrigtsen's little brother afflicted with liver infection"]
Henrik noticed that my eyes were very yellow during breakfast.
So we began researching things and called dad at home.
We went right to the emergency room and found out that it was an infection in my liver.
They determined it was caused by a virus so it had to go away by itself.
Afterward, when I was healthy and began to train again.
It has been really hard.
It was like I hadn't exercised before when I started training a bit.
Take it easy on the last one.
Don't talk to him either, totally hopeless.
We push and push and push.
You are running a volume that is right at the edge of irresponsible.
You are the one driving. Yeah, that I am.
That's why it is important that you hold a little bit back.
Right, don't push right to the edge because your training is crazy enough as is.
I feel bad for Filip.
He constantly encounters things that test his patience and his motivation with enormous challenges.
I'm extremely proud of what he does to come out of those periods.
There are about two months left until the European Championships in Zurich.
I had hoped to be able to compete here in June.
But because my body isn't responding as well to the training, I will need to wait until July.
But I hope to turn in around and be on the start line in Zurich.
Filip has two tough months of training in front of him.
In order to manage to qualify for the European Championships.
Henrik, on the other hand, will compete in the 1500m and will try to defend his title as defending European champ.
So his sons can reach their high goals, Gjert has worked out a detailed training plan.
On Wednesday, a half an hour in the morning and 5-6x 300m in 42 or 43 with fast active rest between each.
Those are my workouts. They are.
I've got it by myself. Have you?
Yeah, I did this one a lot in 2010 before competitions.
That's fine then. Enough about that.
Then we have this other which is more like we did last year.
It was totally merciless.
10km run in the morning and 16x 300m in the middle of the day. That is crazy. Forget that.
Regardless. It is good you see that now.
That's good. But, but, so...
Dad and I have been collaborating on training for a long time. He was my coach for cross country skiing.
The things we have developed are very good. They give results.
He has read up and gained what knowledge he can.
As long as Filip and I are on board, so tight is his hold as our coach.
He will take that with him and know it backwards and forwards.
He won't make the same mistake more than one time.
It is no coincidence that the Ingebrigtsen family has their summer holiday in Switzerland.
Here is the apartment we got in Saint Moritz.
Jakob, are you doing altitude training? Yeah.
Can't do that too young, I believe. No.
Ingrid, what have you done today?
I have run all the way around the track here with mom.
And William is here for his first altitude training at nine months.
Filip has had a tough year, but he has still managed to qualify for his first championship at the senior level.
It is really boring, the lives those boys live.
Before championships it is just eating, sleeping, and training.
For the rest of us who don't just do that.
It can be a bit boring.
At the same time, I think, we have a common goal and that is to go home with a European championships medal.
When you think about that, it is easier to deal with.
Now I'm in Luzern and preparing myself for the European track & field championships in Zurich.
There is one week left until it starts.
For the first time in the senior championships I will be competing against Filip.
It isn't certain we will be in the same heat.
But if we both come to the final, then we will be on the same start line.
That is the goal, that we both make the final.
Henrik, are you sleeping? Are you sleeping? No.
Can you see me?
Don't bug me.
Who do you think will with the European champs? That would be me.
You? Do you think that you will win?
Why are you just laying in your room all day?
I'm saving up for the next workout.
What time is that? In five hours.
That should be fun. It will not be fun.
No. What have we learned from Dad?
All fun things are dangerous.
We have now been on vacation for four weeks.
Four and a half. Or in the fifth week now.
Now Jakob doesn't want to stay any more.
So now it will be just me and Ingrid and William at this hotel.
We will send Jakob home to Martin in Sandnes.
What happened there?
It was one second slower than the first time.
You guys are running very unevenly.
How's it going? Filip is having a tough day.
Do you think you will with the European champs? Yeah.
That's good.
I wouldn't care to do this if not.
You wouldn't? I wouldn't care to if not.
Don't care? Don't care? Don't care.
I don't train to come in second place.
In Zurich, the press is focused on the Ingebrigtsen brothers, who will be competing against each other for the first time.
What is the relationship between you like when you are going to compete against each other?
On the start line he is just like any other competitor really.
I feel the same really.
Other days, there aren't as many that follow along as closely.
I think he is the clearest favorite in the field.
In the event we are both in the final, we will run against each other.
Then it will be an issue.
Can you joke a bit with each other?
We don't joke. We never joke around.
Get a bit closer together. You are very stiff.
Don't do it like that.
If you had grown up like us, you would have been just as stiff.
Here's a Norwegian newspaper, let's take a look.
Do you think there is anything about the boys in there?
Yeah, Oh, look there.
European championship hopes rest on this man.
Most have already been knocked out.
They didn't make the finals.
It is pretty much just Henrik and Filip left.
So now he has extra pressure on him.
Come and see. Come and see Henrik.
Would you like to see? Look.
Can you see that is Henrik?
Welcome today as Norway joins the hunt for a European championships medal.
We are in a taxi on the way to the stadium.
Film me too.
This is the 1500 meter.
Filip is pretty nervous.
I don't feel it.
Dad on the other hand is incredibly nervous.
For who? For myself.
I'm just excited to get going. I have waited a long time. This will be fun.
No. Oh yeah.
This week in Zurich is terrible for us as parents.
We have to pretend like we aren't concerned.
Everything is fine and it will go good.
Even while your own feelings are going through a rollercoaster.
And Gjert feels like some of the pressure even spills over to him, how he has brought up the boys.
There are two heats in the qualifiers.
The top six from each heat qualify directly for the final.
Look, there's Henrik.
Henrik is the first up and he is seen as one of the big favorites.
Henrik Ingebrigtsen has shown the muscles before and he does it again here.
Do you want to clap?
The first heat is underway.
Henrik is leading from the start.
Come on.
Yay Henrik!.
Come on Henrik!
There are eight men in the lead group and then a gap.
Henrik is answering all the moves.
Expect Henrik to take control on the home stretch.
He's in control. Everything is good.
Henrik looks around and will win the first heat in 3:39.32.
Henrik has moved on.
One boy done, now just one left.
Now we'll see Filip and see if he can also come to the final.
Come on Filip.
Filip is in third place.
Come on Filip.
He's falling back a bit now.
No. Filip needs to pick up the pace a bit now.
200 meters to go to the finish.
Come on Filip, you can take them.
Come on Filip.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
He's first one out.
His time will not get a finals qualifying place.
You want both of your children to succeed.
How do you relate when one is really disappointed and one is really happy.
That is the worst part as a parent.
I'm disappointed. I was aggressive in the beginning.
If you aren't up front in the start, it is hard to be up front at the end.
That's how it goes. Can't do anything more about it now.
You slipped too far back Filip. If you see an opening, then you run full speed.
Once you decide to go past then you need to just go.
It will cost what it costs, but to stop up like that, you will park yourself.
I know he was struggling there. Then why did you just give up?
When it doesn't go well, you have a lot of thoughts.
What have I done wrong? Is my training wrong? What did I do wrong in the race?
A whole bunch of things, which are basically just negative.
I know he is dissapointed, because he isn't all there, he isn't with it mentally.
And it irritates him to come up short.
He criticizes everyone else for not being there mentally if he sees it.
And now, he crashed down.
Filip.
You shouldn't get yourself boxed in.
No. You were so fresh in the end.
You are the one who is most irritated at yourself.
Yeah, that I am.
Hello. Hello.
You were good.
No.
Yes.
I thought you were very good.
All the way up to 200 meters to go maybe.
Yeah. You will make the final.
I should have made it this time.
Yeah, you need to just forget it.
You made the European championships.
You haven't had the best run up either.
No, but no one knows that.
No, they don't. You don't need to be so disappointed though. I think it was good.
I am proud of you, no matter what. That's good then.
It is always much better to talk to you after, if it has gone wrong.
Okay, Bye. Bye.
It could be that this was just too soon, after the sickness. We'll never know.
There is no point in expending any more energy on it.
Henrik is in the final.
I will do as well as I can to not spread too much negative energy.
I told him, you should act as though you made it through to the final.
You should be there for Henrik, because he would have been there for you.
A nice brother. Who is? Filip? Jakob?
Yeah, he is.
I will be very disappointed if he doesn't get a medal, but I also have to tell myself that this season has gone from high point to high point.
That's why we are here. We want to win all the time.
Henrik will decide for himself if he will win.
No one else can decide for him.
If Henrik decides to win the race tomorrow then he will.
Can I decide now? You can do it now. It is best that you decide now.
There is no point to decide five minutes before. You need to decide now.
Everything you do from this point on depends on your decision.
Do you feel you are ready? Yeah.
You need to decide if you are going to win or not. I've already decided.
We are just minutes away from Henrik Ingebrigtsen's entrance today.
He will defend is European championship gold. I have a goal to take the gold.
If I reach my own goals, then I get Norway's too. It's as simple as that.
I am very nervous and hope it goes well for Henrik.
What do you say William?
William is ready.
So we are ready for the final.
We are excited before the start for Henrik Ingebrigtsen.
The 1500m final is underway in Zurich.
Henrik Ingebrigtsen in the middle of the field.
It is way too tight.
We see Chris O'Hare on his way to the front.
Someone almost stumbles into Henrik.
He collided with one of the athletes.
Henrik in the middle of the field
You need to move forward Henrik.
Several who fell there.
Henrik just came through at the back.
I knew he would go right there.
Henrik is moving forward.
He's too far ahead.
Behind Henrik is the German.
No doubt here that the gold will go to France.
Henrik fights for silver against the German.
Here comes O'Hare and it will be silver for Henrik Ingebrigtsen.
That is an impressive effort in a dramatic 1500m final.
A fantastically good performance from Henrik Ingebrigtsen from Sandnes.
William. Yay! We got silver!
He would have had gold in that one if he hadn't... Damnit!
If he hadn't been impacted by all the falls he would have won that crazy heat.
Are you proud of what he did despite everything? Oh yeah, that was great.
He had that one. There was too much jostling.
He was tripped two times.
There were three people who fell in his way.
To be disappointed with silver would be idiotic.
It was pretty cool to come in number two there.
Silver is "first loser", isn't that what they say?
That was good.
I know him extremely well
We have been racing together since he was a little boy.
I know his strengths and weaknesses so I can influence him to make the right choices
I have achieved my goals this year, for the most part.
I know what I have done, but I also know what I haven't done.
I know I can do even more, and dad and I believe it is quite a bit.
We are never satisfied, so long as we know we can do even better.
I wish Henrik all success and that he succeeds in everything he does.
He puts in a horrendous amount of work.
But on the other side, I put in my own share of work.
I sacrifice just as much, so I believe that soon it will be my turn.
Hello.
Henrik might have gotten silver are the European championships, but I have gold in love.
I have just decided that I will do this.
When I a decide then it is difficult to stop me.
They are too grown up for you to decide for them.
Henrik, we haven't talked about your relationship with that lady.
You looked tired today. You will not be when you show up on Sunday. That will not happen.
That can't happen. You were tired like a a teenager.
On the track, little brother Jakob aims for speed.
14 year old Jakob is our running with an international field here.
Do you want to be good? I want to be best. Of? Everyone.
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