Andy, has anyone ever asked you why you pull a gormless face on your video thumbnails? Do you do it because you think it encourages people to click on the videos? Or is there another reason?
Hybrid athletes=steroid bros. Walk into a 24 hour fitness or a Planet fitness and see how long it is before some dealer offers you the burritos with the special sauce. It's highly annoying and makes me wish races would test influencers (and ban them if they fail the test).
Yes they have 😂 people react to emotions, the best way to convey that is a facial expression… I’ve experimented with a variety of thumbnail styles and sadly, the gormless look far exceeds my other styles. The sad truth is… if youre not talented like me or have a wide audience who wants to watch your content because they like to follow your journey (Ben F / Phily etc)… then you have a choice… you either keep producing the content but it never spreads to a wider audience because nobody clicks (thumbnails are crap)… or you get people to click… my gormless face does the trick 👍
Just watched the latest video from that FilmMyRun dude.
Anyone ever met this guy? Any stories or opinions?
Not met him. However, he's has very odd onions about running. Most notably, he said to run a sub three marathon, you need to be able to run a half with only a sip of water (just non-social advice). Also, claims you can train your body not to need in-race nutrition for longer distances.
I find a little smarmy and creepy in videos he makes about himself. That being said, he can tell a good story - his documentary on a back yard ultra was good.
Yes I surged alot during this race… I haven’t studied the GPS but I’d expect the surges to be after the 1st K? I settled for the first K then just kept surging hard through to about 4.5K, by which time I was cooked. Around 3K I put in a really really hard surge so I’d expect that’s where the quickest surge was? I’ll have to take a look later myself in more detail.
I measured the course with the distance measuring tool on Google Maps. It's bang on 5K. That's if you run the tangents. You probably ran more because of the traffic. Google maps is very accurate for short measurements like this in my experience.
The course is very flat. Also the park paths seem (for the most part) very, very smooth: I've ran races in parks with portions with road level smooth paths and then uneven, wavy kind of paths, and the pace drops immediately on even slightly not ideal asphalt. If you're with high stack shoes it's even more noticeable.
I’ve got the be honest, it’s probably the smoothest tarmac path I’ve run on and despite the one tight turn, I can see why there’s good depth that turns up there… it’s a really fast course and it flows well.. the bends are runnable, it’s flows well, you kind of run in a figure of 8 to a degree and I found it really rewarded faster running. Id definitely go back and would recommend as a fast 5K race to others that are local 👍
Talking of thumbnails, and I think FOD Runner's are very good, which other running YouTubers produce good thumbnails? I think Cole's are very striking and clear.
just when I thought I was starting to like seth again, he’s back on his goofy bullshiz. Driving up to a ski resort on weekday for a pointless easy run. In hi big butt silver truck he doesn’t need with an American flag posted up on it. Dropping his bobo off his coffee. Pointless kettlebell lifting on the side of the road after his run while people drive past. gosh darn it seth!
Those kettlebell swings, boy o boy. No custard for you.
Just watched the latest video from that FilmMyRun dude.
Anyone ever met this guy? Any stories or opinions?
I think he's a lemon. During races, he's full of himself and talks down to everyone (including volunteers), only to regularly fail because he does zero training and fuels himself with half-a-banana. His opinion videos are just him jumping on whatever controversial topic is trending to chase views. It's like he spends all his time on X and Reddit looking for whatever's currently annoying people (Parkrun, Russ Cook, UTMB etc).
just when I thought I was starting to like seth again, he’s back on his goofy bullshiz. Driving up to a ski resort on weekday for a pointless easy run. In hi big butt silver truck he doesn’t need with an American flag posted up on it. Dropping his bobo off his coffee. Pointless kettlebell lifting on the side of the road after his run while people drive past. gosh darn it seth!
Those kettlebell swings, boy o boy. No custard for you.
He is really over doing the try hard stuff and his videos are rather dull. Imagine watching a TV show where the first 5-10 minutes of EVERY episode are the EXACT same dialogue, costumes, and plot points? Coffee and Bobos in the dark? Dressing with a headlamp on? Ain’t never seen that before!
Highway side kettlebells? That’s fresh! Also, kind of a big dumb distraction. Content first and safety be damned with this tool! Perhaps Chari Hawkins can do form drills in the HOV lanes on the 15? Ben is Running does a workout in a major London roundabout? Matt Choi runs shirtless on an active international airport runway filmed by three dudes on e-bike?
To his credit, he does seem more engaged with raising the kids. Did True Love get a job outside of the house?
Floberg is so bad at training I can't stand it. The half marathon was a last-minute decision and his poor performance in it was the reason he ramped up the mileage to 67 and 84. If he hadn't run the HM as a fitness check, presumably he would've stayed at a low training load for three more weeks heading into his pacing job.
If you include the taper for McKirdy, that would have been 10 weeks of significantly reduced training load, at which point he thought he could pace someone at 10sec/mi slower than his PR. As it happened with him jumping into that HM, I think he started to get a tiny bit of fitness back, since the HM itself was a good stimulus and he ramped up his mileage. But then he tapered for Bayshore and now he hasn't run since Bayshore, so despite Bayshore itself being a big stimulus, he's looking at another two down weeks. What a waste of time.
Can't wait to see how much Grandma's disrupts his training yet again. I'll be shocked if he's any fitter at all going into his Chicago build than he was at McKirdy. Then we'll hear about how all-in he is and making sacrifices etc etc.
Floberg, if you must run Grandma's, then fully train through it. Run it at 7:30 pace. Do a little tempo at the end if you must. But go through 20mi at 7:30 pace. In retrospect, I hope you realize you should not have run McKirdy at all. I get it was very tempting to try to bag the sub 2:30. But this is how you plateau. Keep training through races (or just don't sign up for them) until you think you're in 2:25 shape. Then go forth and claim your glorious sub 2:30.
Just watched the latest video from that FilmMyRun dude.
Anyone ever met this guy? Any stories or opinions?
Not met him. However, he's has very odd onions about running. Most notably, he said to run a sub three marathon, you need to be able to run a half with only a sip of water (just non-social advice). Also, claims you can train your body not to need in-race nutrition for longer distances.
I find a little smarmy and creepy in videos he makes about himself. That being said, he can tell a good story - his documentary on a back yard ultra was good.
Floberg is so bad at training I can't stand it. The half marathon was a last-minute decision and his poor performance in it was the reason he ramped up the mileage to 67 and 84. If he hadn't run the HM as a fitness check, presumably he would've stayed at a low training load for three more weeks heading into his pacing job.
If you include the taper for McKirdy, that would have been 10 weeks of significantly reduced training load, at which point he thought he could pace someone at 10sec/mi slower than his PR. As it happened with him jumping into that HM, I think he started to get a tiny bit of fitness back, since the HM itself was a good stimulus and he ramped up his mileage. But then he tapered for Bayshore and now he hasn't run since Bayshore, so despite Bayshore itself being a big stimulus, he's looking at another two down weeks. What a waste of time.
Can't wait to see how much Grandma's disrupts his training yet again. I'll be shocked if he's any fitter at all going into his Chicago build than he was at McKirdy. Then we'll hear about how all-in he is and making sacrifices etc etc.
Floberg, if you must run Grandma's, then fully train through it. Run it at 7:30 pace. Do a little tempo at the end if you must. But go through 20mi at 7:30 pace. In retrospect, I hope you realize you should not have run McKirdy at all. I get it was very tempting to try to bag the sub 2:30. But this is how you plateau. Keep training through races (or just don't sign up for them) until you think you're in 2:25 shape. Then go forth and claim your glorious sub 2:30.
You seem to assume Floberg, or for that manner 90% of running YouTubers have any idea what they're doing.
What they do, the way they train, is not about getting faster but about clicks and shilling
Floberg is so bad at training I can't stand it. The half marathon was a last-minute decision and his poor performance in it was the reason he ramped up the mileage to 67 and 84. If he hadn't run the HM as a fitness check, presumably he would've stayed at a low training load for three more weeks heading into his pacing job.
If you include the taper for McKirdy, that would have been 10 weeks of significantly reduced training load, at which point he thought he could pace someone at 10sec/mi slower than his PR. As it happened with him jumping into that HM, I think he started to get a tiny bit of fitness back, since the HM itself was a good stimulus and he ramped up his mileage. But then he tapered for Bayshore and now he hasn't run since Bayshore, so despite Bayshore itself being a big stimulus, he's looking at another two down weeks. What a waste of time.
Can't wait to see how much Grandma's disrupts his training yet again. I'll be shocked if he's any fitter at all going into his Chicago build than he was at McKirdy. Then we'll hear about how all-in he is and making sacrifices etc etc.
Floberg, if you must run Grandma's, then fully train through it. Run it at 7:30 pace. Do a little tempo at the end if you must. But go through 20mi at 7:30 pace. In retrospect, I hope you realize you should not have run McKirdy at all. I get it was very tempting to try to bag the sub 2:30. But this is how you plateau. Keep training through races (or just don't sign up for them) until you think you're in 2:25 shape. Then go forth and claim your glorious sub 2:30.
You seem to assume Floberg, or for that manner 90% of running YouTubers have any idea what they're doing.
What they do, the way they train, is not about getting faster but about clicks and shilling
True. But I think Floberg at least really wants this sub 2:30 and isn’t consciously prioritizing his influencer “career” over it. He’s just making some poor decisions.
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