London Marathon - YouTubers Getting Destroyed

believing her content is relatable couldn’t be any further from the truth. Making little videos at home for a living, having all the time in the world to train and having brands pay you to run…give me a break. She forgets majority of her audience work 9-5. Maybe she wasn’t sub 3 ready either. Just a thought.

I think the issue there is that getting 60,000 runners to the start line in an area of London that's not particularly accessible by transit in time is a logistical nightmare and it'd be even harder to do so if you made the start earlier. Plus 8AM would not be an attractive start time for TV audiences I suppose.

New York gets away with it with its 24 hour transit system.

Matt Fox - Banged up Abroad

Felton - 18miles. Bester shortly after. He was certainly laughing when one of the pack barked at Felton that he couldnt make a youtube film for a DNF with a few other expletives thrown in. it was almost as if i was there ;)

I would pay to see a reel of this.

BOOM SHAKA LAKA

I was surprised at this, so did the national rail travel planner.

First train from London Bridge to Blackheath on a Sunday is 7am!

Ridiculous. I happen to have friends at Southeastern trains. So know they "sponsor" London Marathon. Would it kill them to run trains from 5am every 15mins on Marathon Sunday??

Did Felton respond at all? Any banter with Bester? I need details!

She was in sub 3. I don't know her but the 3:09 with a 1:24:29 first half is incredibly badly paced (and a sub 19 first 5K, lol).

She ran a positive split in almost each successive 5K, but finished strong from 40K to 42.2K.

I ran 3:00 by splitting 1:29:mid and then 1:30:mid. It was the best I could do on that day. Had she split a full 5 min slower, or maybe 4, she probably could have run 2:57-2:58 but again would have required strong pacing.

Looks like she ran a 1:20 debut half.

2x half + 20 should be doable even if not ideally prepared and not ideal condition, but again that was close. She does seem insufferable. I had to look her up just now.

The way Mary is harping on about this running journey you would think she is someone like Charlotte Purdue who has actually had an incredibly tough 3+ years with her health and has seriously impacted her profession as a runner. Was gutted not to see her finish on Sunday upon her return. She’s such a genuine and nice human too, hope she’s ok. Mary seems to think the sport/marathon owes her something. She went out too hot as if she was going to run 2:45. Really, she would have likely run 2:50 at her absolute best in my opinion. My views : heat didn’t help, too many miles in training which probably cooked her and also got pacing wrong. Re pacing though, I’ve run London before and it’s very easy to get carried away early on with the downhills and atmosphere. Sure she’ll come right, she’s got talent but for now, please stop going on about what happened, it’s not that deep. There were thousands of other runners there on Sunday who ran for incredible causes and they will never get the exposure or engagement that you get. You have a luxury, be thankful.

Bester - absolutely nothing. miserable as sin.

ive seen his footage of the last 2km and its completely fake, forcing himself to do the arms up celebration thing with the people dishing out the medals, hes was absolutely fuming and only picked it up to avoid the humiliation of the Best Athletic runner beating him when he was over-taken

Ben is Begging - he mumbled something but was head down, hoping not to be noticed

Have met Charlotte a few times in the past - she is lovely.

I passed Bester on the embankment and he looked like was jogging it in. Then 5 minutes later I heard loads of people shouting his catchphrase (amazed by how many people knew who he was!) and realised he was putting in an effort to finish. He passed me but I beat him on chip time ;)

Annoying how many people are commenting on his video praising him for being so strong and taking loads of people at the end when he had dropped off pace for some time.

Met her in passing a few times, always been more than happy to chat. Hope she can have more success in the future. Seems the athletes more often than not are nicer and more approachable than the runfluencers. Can confirm re MM

Thanks, this satiates my inner gossipy b*tch

haha nice, I think I see you in his video (in the blue?). You were finishing very strong

I know what letsrun thinks about the guy, but still - It warms my heart that a hobbyrunner gets more recognition than all of these nameless doped out of their minds pros. (not that he's not on the sauce, tho)

That's kind of trashy behaviour, tbh. Who shouts expletives at someone running a marathon just because they don't like the youtube videos that person posts? It's not like he was pulling a Matt Choi and obstructing people.

Looked it up and she ran a 4:14:30, with a positive split (2:01 / 2:13).

Considering she doesn't race anything longer than 800m in the multis, I guess it's not unexpected.

Someone shouted 'Prick Bester' at him where i was watching from.

Seems a bit mean, leave him alone :(