The Trials and Tribulations of Running YouTubers

The YouTubers who receive the most negative comments on here are all fake.

Bester, with his over the top boomlakashack stuff, Philly with her "quirkiness" and Floberg with his "I love this sport" when all of them are actors trying to make a living from new, uneducated runners or people with no idea what a well directed and edited video actually is. Thomas, Robbe and the running channels people who don't even run more than 25 miles a week even though it's their job also come in this category.

The most genuine and popular, on here, YouTubers such as Crown My Run, FOD and MARM are just making videos because they want to entertain and inform. FOD won't make excuses when he has a bad race, he is one of the most honest guys out there and comes on here to answer the critics which is fair play to him

Yeah I remember Philly saying how amazing the night of the 10,000 PB's was and how great it was for fans to meet the athletes and that we need more evens like that then admitted to spending virtually the whole night when not running hiding in the pro tent!

Her fans are absolutely incredible though I really have to cringe sometimes reading their comments!

Have a day off. Some people just love to try and pick fault with people.

Bester ran 31.05 on Sunday in scorching heat so that's probably worth about 30.30 on a cool day. He seems to focus on his training more than the other Shoetubers and I think has the potential to get an elite start at the London marathon in the next few years if he stays consistent. He made a video about his typical day which looked quite brutal tbh, at the level he's training with family and coaching commitments could see him burnout.

For the mileage he runs and the support he gets from Adidas etc, he is massively under performing

i'm pretty sure his "coaching commitments" boil down to sending over a cookie-cutter plan and an invoice. If you want a "Boomshakalaka" with it, that costs extra.

Yes, I saw that. Very impressive time, like FOD said a few comments back it will be really interesting to see how much he pushes on with this new coach. Sub 30 definitely seems on the cards in the winter months.

Has anybody seen the new FreddyRuns video? Quite an interesting topic of whether Strava PBS should count. I am on the fence with this.

Freddy argues that his parkrun time was slower than his Strava time and going on the latter it would be a PB (23:18 or something rather than 23:29). He argues it is completely down to the individual if they go by strava for PB or chip time/parkrun time. He quite fairly argues that only counting chip times for PBs discriminates against people who cant afford to do official races etc..

embarassing, even by her standards

bottled racing ppl in favour of a mediocer time trial

shes way off it this year. no races other than a poor marathon. her coach is strange, why have a coach in america when you are clearly very very needy.

the videos have nosedived in quality and can see shes pumping out dross without purpose, like shes obliged to do 1 vid a week but has nothing worthwhile to talk about so creates random tales for the sake of it.

within 2 weeks will be the standard "mental health troubles" vid where its so hard to be a runner boo hoo hoo

she was running her best times last summer when she raced regularly. clearly needs to get back to that and enjoy herself - no one enjoys training for months without racing

Well "butter me crumpets", that's rich coming from someone who barely misses a day trying to get a rise out of others by painting fellow YouTubers as caricatures, knowing it'll provoke criticism of them. Ironically, that's the source of most of the negativity you (falsely) claim to be against. Have a day off.

Kofuzi is claiming that anyone who complains about running influencers is biased because they only complain about women or BIPOC

It's very hard to tell with Bester whether this is him posting, or one of his brainwashed viewers?

He ran 31:05 on a quick ish course. FOD did a video on that guy sirpoc who ran exactly 31:05 last week on a pretty hilly looking course, is 41 years old and works full time and is a self confessed hobby jogger. There is nothing wrong with that as a level or what he is on par with, but let's get this right he's actually worse than some random guy from Letsrun, who also destroyed him at London FWIW and who is a decent bit older.

When you look at it like that, it's laughable really to suggest 1. Bester is performing anything more than par and 2. He could get an elite London start.

Yeah, take BITR for example, Robbie and Thomas are beloved, while we all hate Meg

Where did Ko claim this?

Just out of interest as I don’t actually know the answer. What is Besters marathon PB and what is SiRPOCs?
And same question for the other main race distances?

Strava time !

Lol

What a loser !

Part of me thinks it’s only a matter of time before meg ditches them and starts her own thing. I would follow her.

I'm really impressed by how committed this simp is to the trolling. It's gotta be an elaborate gaslighting attempt.

I really wish Megan (Murray) and Megan (Featherstone) would do Fuel for the Sole without Thomas. He adds nothing to the podcast but has no problem jumping in to answer questions for a sports RD .. when one is sitting next to him.

What a strange example to use. Park run is not an official race. Your park run PB is not your 5K PB. Some courses are short and not measured to the standards of a "proper" 5k race

Thomas is that cringey old man.