I've noticed since London, Phily Bowden has started posting runs on Strava where she tries to heat train (running but with lots of additional clothes on).
I know heat training as a concept is a thing, but does this strike anyone else as slightly neurotic? Particularly when the marathon is over. I feel like she took London worse than maybe she let on which is a shame.
Comparing himself to what he believes he will be the 1% that can handle high mileage as well?
we all love a good RTJ story of stupidly high Cam Levins mileage, but this guy throws up every workout and has kids. What makes him think he can get close to a 100 mile week yet alone be Driven all summer and maintain that for a long time?
this was a hilarious part of the video - 32:26 into his current video for those interested
Going from 60M weeks to 100M weeks is worlds different, and laughable he just presumes he's the exception to the rule
Would be pretty funny when Truett Hanes breaks 2:30 before Floberg
Pretty much a certainty at this point. I don't know if Floberg will be at the BPN Backyard Ultra but I would bet Truett sticks it to the competition there too.
Comparing himself to what he believes he will be the 1% that can handle high mileage as well?
we all love a good RTJ story of stupidly high Cam Levins mileage, but this guy throws up every workout and has kids. What makes him think he can get close to a 100 mile week yet alone be Driven all summer and maintain that for a long time?
this was a hilarious part of the video - 32:26 into his current video for those interested
Going from 60M weeks to 100M weeks is worlds different, and laughable he just presumes he's the exception to the rule
Floberg constantly shows his disrespect and complete lack of understanding about training for a marathon and racing a marathon.
He'd be better off sitting out the autumn marathon season and concentrating on speed sessions with lower mileage to get his 5k and 10k times down but he thinks he knows best because he's read some Pfitz and follows his coach who basically follows a JD 2Q cut and paste
I listened to the Believe in the Run podcast on my run this morning. The last 10 minutes were hilarious and pathetic at the same time. It involved Robbe and Thomas swapping stories about who has the worse case of head lice as a kid, Meaghan threatening to walk off the set, them going deeper into the minutiae of head lice, and ended with Thomas sheepishly proclaiming "Try ELMNT" at the end of a 10 minute segment about head lice. It may be so bad that it's the greatest ad of all time.
We know Thomas, or perhaps Robbe, follows this thread! I mean if y'all read this thread so much, and have a two hour podcast to fill, why not talk about this thread on your next episode! I'll even listen to it on my trusty Shokz headphones (BITR fans got really mad at them in the comments for trashing Shokz)
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He hasn't gotten significantly fitter since last Fall. But if you look at his training this year, it's more than what he had been doing last year. And yet he still decides it just wasn't enough stimulus to get him to sub 2:30 and he needs a significantly bigger training load. Couldn't be anything wrong with his training. Must endure more pain. Must get stronger, including upper body, while building volume and losing weight and ... doing yoga? Still loves his coach. I'm sure someday he'll go sub 2:30 and feel vindicated but man is this not the right way to do it.
I don’t mind him as much as this forum but Floberg shouting out and admiring very obvious drug cheat Truett Hanes was such a bad look and shows very little critical reasoning
I don’t mind him as much as this forum but Floberg shouting out and admiring very obvious drug cheat Truett Hanes was such a bad look and shows very little critical reasoning
Floberg is a very naive and un street wise individual. Probably sheltered from the real world by his parents and nice, comfortable upbringing.
He's in the jungle now and has t a clue he's being used by people like BPN
Its the in thing for runners and cyclists at the moment. Probably also a reaction to having trained in Flagstaff in the snow and then racing in a "hot" London.
Problem is she's doing active heat acclimation (exercising in the heat/increasing core temp through layering up), which increases the intensity of the bout of exercise - we all see it when our HR/RPE is higher running in summer because its hotter. It'll mean she should be absolutely shuffling on those easy runs in lots of layers - which I doubt she is!
Hoping she's being guided through it, personally I'd almost always stick with passive acclimation (hot tub/sauna) and just do 20-30 minutes a day - she could even optimise her time and do her socials whilst doing it.
It's funny seeing this take off, as I'm just about to start recruiting people for a study on it, and how wildly far off the mark/more complicated influencers and unguided athletes make it. Really makes you question their advice if they do things like charging £180/month for coaching!
I've noticed since London, Phily Bowden has started posting runs on Strava where she tries to heat train (running but with lots of additional clothes on).
I know heat training as a concept is a thing, but does this strike anyone else as slightly neurotic? Particularly when the marathon is over. I feel like she took London worse than maybe she let on which is a shame.
She is doing it for the post marathon vid. She knows her splits are public and she hanged on the standard for the initial 5km downhill only. So she will blame the heat and claim she has a unique physiology that makes it hard to thermoregulate.
Never mind that the elite women started earlier and she was slowing down 15 minutes into the race. Gotta keep the inspirational big swing narrative alive!
Generally regarded on here as one of the worst YouTubers out there. A total lack of understanding how to train for a marathon, how to listen to your coach, how to run a marathon, how marathon effort should feel or how to tell a simple story.
He also has a total lack of respect for the marathon and thinks he should be knocking 10 mins off his PB every race.
Totally lacking in self awareness and has also got involved with the heinous BPN gang
And he's a preppy American Christian with the highest level of cringe:
Got to be honest I don't think Philly's video even touched on how she really felt afterwards and it gave virtually no insight into what went wrong especially when you consider the minute detail she goes into when she hits her goals.
It was just an over sentimental over edited clip that played to her very emotional fans!
I wish her well but would much rather she went back to a more "raw" fact laden videos that she used to put out.
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