The Trials and Tribulations of Running YouTubers

Thomas on today's podcast oh my! Meaghan talks about racing the elites at the NYRR 10k. Thomas, "Did you wish you had buns on?" Meaghan, "No, gosh no."

Thomas, since we know you read this, if you're really that obsessed with buns you can buy a speedo and race in it! Meaghan, I'm sorry your partner is so cringe!

Thanks for the reply. I'm actually going to be in the UK (Essex) at the end of the summer so I'll take a look.

In hot weather, perhaps as they probably marginally aid in the evaporative cooling. Versus half tights, probably because half tights constrict the stride.

Speaking of cringe.. in that podcast they mentioned a study done by Asics on why women exercise less than men. Thomas' reply: because they're lazy. Hahaha so funny! I bet his ex wife would tell us all what she did in the home while raising the kids when Thomas popped out for his run. Oh well. It's actually shocking that in 2025 women still do way more housework and child raising than men while working full time. Ok rant over.

I hate women.

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Kofuzi seems unlikely to get near his Tokyo marathon pb again with his current training mentality so it makes sense that no one wants to sponsor a dud result.

Yeah Philly lost a lot of respect from me after London.

All that swing narrative stuff was so naff.She spent most of her life for the past 6 months including travelling half way round the world and all the costs involved for a race with a main objective of setting a PB and ended up with her second slowest marathon time and we are supposed to believe she is ok about it.Don't buy it for one minute.

Late to comment on this, but I made the conversion to a 5K with his 2.9mi pace: for a 5K his time is 19:35.25. It's a few seconds slower than my 5K split in my last 10K race. And I'm his age, but a bit chubbier and he has 4 years more training than me, and also is now full send on this running lifestyle. (I don't know if this matters but I ran my 10K in the OG Metaspeed Sky, he has whatever cutting edge technology supershoe some brand gifted him.)

and while Thomas was chasing after his 25 year old coworker when he was 40

We've already done FODs views on other YouTubers earlier in the thread.

TLDR: he can neither confirm nor deny Bester is a bell end

He's insufferable at the smaller 5ks and park runs where he thinks he's God's gift to running acting like the big I am.

He's an absolute shell of himself at the bigger events where he gets his arse handed to him by all the other club runners. Mainly because mostly people there simple do not care and see him for the grifter he is.

The bloke takes a bike or roller blades with him to events with 1000 people (plus whoever else is in the park), anyone who cared for anyone else wouldn't even have to think twice. There's some genuinely really nice influencers and YouTubers out there who'd go out of their way for others in a very humble way and are very down to Earth. He is absolutely not one of them. But can totally see why he's popular and he does a brilliant job of appealing to his audience.

EDIT: Should've said - I am not an influencer. Just someone who's come across him and many others in London quite a lot.

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Completely random thought and observation: Anybody else thinks Ben Flanagan looks like Philly. Lowkey an L for Ben LMAOOOOO

Kofuzi with his Runna sponsored training for a 5k video. It should be titled short 5k.

Can't believe I actually watched the whole video just to see if he mentioned that the course was short. Win for Kofuzi I guess. Btw yes, he did mention it at the very end.