Was Nick Bester in London as the pacer for other Bestathletics runners? I'm a 2:45 marathoner and I saw a total of 5-7 of his runners struggling on the last 5 kilometers or stretching their calves against the fence. Their training program apparently doesn't include tips for maintaining consistent paces and even splits. By the way, Ben Johnson was also on his team, but he performed well.
FODrunner aka Andy Raynor 2:57:52, about as expected considering his health issues this winter.
UK youtuber Tim Grose did a training comparison video of a bunch of youtubers running London. He breaks down FOD runners training, and he did a split of 38% easy, 62% hard miles running last marathon block, and this marathon block was 46% easy and 54% hard.
Nick Bester - after missing his target yet again at Manchester*, he paced London for 2:45, didnt manage to pace it correctly (running 2:43) and seems surprised that all the people aiming for 2:45 blew up? Strange that. Also manages to make it a complete look-at-me-festival shouting and screaming through the crowds and filming himself meanwhile people around him are trying to focus on the task at hand. *Manchester was never going to go well mainly because he did 0 fact checking. Last year only 2x people broke 2:22, yet he was talking about running <2:20 "tucked into the packs". This is a man who thrives only when using large fields around him and cant execute by himself. I'm sure Matt Fox is somewhere cheering FOD Runner - has poor run. Obviously he was ill during part of this, but has used that as a huge sandbag whilst simultaneously trying to tell everyone how fit and healthy he is in recent videos... so which is it? It's been discussed before but it's very obvious he has very little understanding of his training, and is progressively trying to play up more and more for the camera by trying unwise antics on his runs. Ben Parkes - his fans who are all beginner runners will lap it up I'm sure, but I personally cant wait to see how many excuses he wheels out for not breaking 3 at Boston, despite his umpteen "how to break 3hrs" videos. He still calls himself a 2:25 guy despite it being 2017/18 and refuses to do any proper training or ever really run hard. Missing your PB by 28mins is comical. $5 says he makes some loose inference to mental health and also his ankle injury from 2+years ago. A week later he bumbles around London in yet another 2:48. At this point it's just anything to avoid running hard and finding any type of content for a youtube video.
Matt Choi - as a carbon copy of Boston, did absolutely everything in his power to avoid taking the event seriously, stopped at every opportunity given and spent more time filming himself for TikTok clips than actually running. Anya Culling - seems to be largely hiding from social media recently. Despite various England Athletics trips to warm altitude locations, she managed to miss her PB by 8mins, yet described it as 'everything she ever wanted' to Athletics Weekly. The fake positivity is sickening. Amusing that she was listed as still running under Bester Athletics, despite their big fall out recently.
In other news; Philly Bowden - still hasn't explained why she got kicked off of New Balance, but is now flogging a dead horse trying to put endless positive spins on her 72" Half in Berlin. Her latest video is unfinishable. Ben Is Running - 68:30 HM recently, 15:02 5K last weekend, Copenhagen Marathon in 1.5 weeks, watch this space The Welsh Runner - didn't train well enough for Manchester, ran a terrible time, went back to doing speed workouts 3 days later. fool.
Matt Fox - yet to post much regarding his huge blow up at Boston, amusing that he things he can do sprint training then a 6week build and break 2:20, this time pacing Floberg to 2:35 but blowing up and having to walk it in in 17"/M is hopefully the humbling he needs to realise he cant 100m-rep his way to a Marathon PR. Athlete Special - the actual reason I came onto this thread - I dont know what the opinion is like in the U.S. (if any) but typically in the U.K. parkruns are reserved largely for casual runners or beginners to give them a low-intensity environment to get a time done and introduce them to the sport. Athletes going down who are clearly far fitter and scalping these races by huge margins (in this case trying to beat high schoolers and scrape their course record) is a complete embarrassment for a guy in his late 20's. Also hanging around after to interview them is cringeworthy AF. I've unsubscribed from the channel now because if it's devolved to just trying to beat people at an event where the director herself said the typical standard is 20mins - 1hr, is just ridiculous. It's not even an actual race/event. Grow up Spence. 'Local Legend' translates to 'that guy who goes round trying to spank hobbyjoggers because he's given up on his own running career'