The Trials and Tribulations of Running YouTubers

Saw that. I just can’t understand the self delusion that goes in to every post leading up to each marathon, be realistic about your actual fitness, set your goals accordingly. Also show some resilience on race day and actually dig deep instead of bailing early in every marathon. She consistently has a pace drop off around the 10-15km splits.

Can’t wait for the multiple instagram posts and 28 minute vlog recap on YouTube blaming every external excuse possible. She recently blamed having a coach for the reason she didn’t run any PR’s in 2024 and now that she’s self coached she is checking off boxes in 2025. Today was a catastrophe. Look inward.

Seriously impressive run from amateur John Gilbert in the Masters category.

no one has ever run so fast with such an unsightly form. The man is hard as nails.

SUB4 FOR THOMAS!!!!! MONSTER DAY!!!

It's really impressive to see what the body can do when your full time job is running, you have a professional coach and all the free shoes and gear you can imagine. WOW!!!!!

Adding ‘lol’ at the end of your comments is cringe whether you’re trolling or not.

It’s slow for an elite male or an elite African woman I guess… but I think relatively speaking most people would class it as very, very fast

I'm going to be really disappointed if Kofuzi isn't there yelling "lets go" with his stupid selfie stick.

Anyone trying to compare elite women's times out on their own vs non elites being carried along by huge groups of club men knows nothing about running.

That was a rough day out there for lots of elites and club runners, the weather wasn't great for fast times. Cole running like he did was even more impressive when you take that into account. He's only 5 mins off Alex Yee ffs.

The Kenya trippers need to look at how they use those camps. I think a few adjustments required and the camps far earlier.

Not going to kick a man when he's down but one positive for Ben Felton here could be that, if today had gone really well, he could easily get stuck in the mindset of feeling like he "needs" the Kenya trips every time he wants to aim for a PB or a big target race, and that would be an expensive training approach for essentially an amateur athlete. It might not be the worst thing in the world to get that thought nipped in the bud now.

I'm sure he'll bounce back soon enough. Everyone has one of those days - especially in the marathon, and probably more than once.

Eddbud 3:34 in Manchester ...

I think the issue with the elites is less the 'running on their own' part, and more to do with the fact that for the first 5k everyone tries to (kind of has to) cling to a pack. For example, Phily Bowden basically having to go with a pack that went out a 2:22 pace for some unknown reason. Eilish had to pick the faster/ middle pack and wisely let go early on. Essentially, though, we're saying the same thing. Although everyone runs the same course in theory, the elite race versus masses/club starters have a lot of confounding variables.

Wow - that’s a great result for him

Saying the same thing . However I'd add the women only event is far more difficult to the men's as the numbers are so small.

Women in the mass start have a big advantage over elite starters. The elite men start with sub elites

Crap being the key word. Poor Helen was running having fully crapped herself with it all the way down both legs. Audible gasp from the crowd as she ran past and they realised what they were seeing.

I think that a sub-4 marathon is not a bad time for someone over 50, but it annoys me when Thomas talks about running shoes, saying that this or that shoe is suitable for slow or bigger runners, and how certain shoes don't work for him — even though he himself is exactly part of that target group. Based on his times, he should actually be using something like the Asics S4+ Yogiri shoes, not the EVO PRO 1s. And my point isn't that slower runners shouldn't use the best shoes, but that he is arrogant in his recommendations.

Another slow hobby jogger you would think that runs fast times.

Shoetubers are a joke.

Seriously? That's awful.

Helen who?

There was a male semielite/elite runner who also had that unfortunate accident happen.

Oh well that's marathon running

Helen Gaunt, the FV45 (was in the elite race last year) who ran 2:36.

Grim, can’t think of any scenario where 💩ing myself and running around with it on me in front of thousands of people is more desirable than losing a minute or 2 in a race.