Bad day to be a UK YouTuber running the 1500m. Fogg dog and Calum Elson get run out of the qualifying positions in a slow first heat (3:48!). All non-automatic qualifying positions taken in the 2nd heat.
Bad day to be a UK YouTuber running the 1500m. Fogg dog and Calum Elson get run out of the qualifying positions in a slow first heat (3:48!). All non-automatic qualifying positions taken in the 2nd heat.
I am wondering whether Flober has considered…having an offseason? Like, not a half-cooked “summer of speed” or race recovery, but a genuine break ? When is the last time this man has not been somewhere along the continuum of a marathon build?
I can get behind the whole ‘stacking bricks’ thing, and obviously it’s served him well to a point, but you don’t just keep ramping things up forever without stagnating, and a properly planned season involves losing a bit of fitness here and there for a reason. I’d say that only gets more important as you get fitter, and unlike most amateurs he hasn’t really had as many incidental breaks due to injury/life AFAIK. (I’m not sure recovering from your 75th flu of the year really counts)
I don’t know man, I’d think if you were that intent on the best marathon ever and had very few lifestyle limitations you might want to maybe come up with some kind of longer term plan?
Nothingface wrote:
I am wondering whether Flober has considered…having an offseason? Like, not a half-cooked “summer of speed” or race recovery, but a genuine break ? When is the last time this man has not been somewhere along the continuum of a marathon build?
I can get behind the whole ‘stacking bricks’ thing, and obviously it’s served him well to a point, but you don’t just keep ramping things up forever without stagnating, and a properly planned season involves losing a bit of fitness here and there for a reason. I’d say that only gets more important as you get fitter, and unlike most amateurs he hasn’t really had as many incidental breaks due to injury/life AFAIK. (I’m not sure recovering from your 75th flu of the year really counts)
I don’t know man, I’d think if you were that intent on the best marathon ever and had very few lifestyle limitations you might want to maybe come up with some kind of longer term plan?
You seem to be assuming Floberg has some idea of what he is doing. He doesn't know how to train. He hasn't a clue how or why he got faster previously (spoiler, he was consistent for the first time ever) and so doesn't really know what he needs to change to continue knocking 10 mins off his marathon PR every race (spoiler 2 it doesn't matter what he does he won't)
Nothingface wrote:
I am wondering whether Flober has considered…having an offseason? Like, not a half-cooked “summer of speed” or race recovery, but a genuine break ? When is the last time this man has not been somewhere along the continuum of a marathon build?
I can get behind the whole ‘stacking bricks’ thing, and obviously it’s served him well to a point, but you don’t just keep ramping things up forever without stagnating, and a properly planned season involves losing a bit of fitness here and there for a reason. I’d say that only gets more important as you get fitter, and unlike most amateurs he hasn’t really had as many incidental breaks due to injury/life AFAIK. (I’m not sure recovering from your 75th flu of the year really counts)
I don’t know man, I’d think if you were that intent on the best marathon ever and had very few lifestyle limitations you might want to maybe come up with some kind of longer term plan?
Jesus, what a sad life the guy has.
Today's Strava "Side by side w/ my love. Wow, at home without kids is the wildest feeling. Life on easy mode."
Wedding anniversary and he's running on the mill while his wife watches. Dude is literally begging his wife to leave him so he can officially cement his bromance with Clark or Nick Bare
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Seth O'Donnell is on youtube.
His content is so pathetic. I cannot believe some of the comments his fans leave on his videos. They act like it’s the most amazing thing in their life to watch.
floberg’s newest video is another level of demented. He’s changed how he even talks to the audience now as if he’s an anime show intro and leaving his viewers on a silly dramatic cliffhanger “the goal today is to run 90 miles my highest ever! Will I do it watch episode 2 of no time and find out!” The pre planned structure is so freaking weird, as is the fact the dude is hyper scripted in his videos for everything, there’s nothing genuine about him anymore. I think he’s legit become engulfed with portraying himself as a running actor for his movies that he doesn’t even know how to be as normal of a human anymore.
also floberg, please be a class act and stop your coaching services. It’s absolute robbery to be charging folks $100+/month for half arsed training plans and no personal 1:1. Not to much that aside from that you’re not a coach and probably just regurgitating some basic pfitz or what Jeff gives you, and then your 3-4 hour marathon “coachee” will PR and bow at your knees like you did it for them. Stop leeching off the community financially for sad fans who think being coached by you makes them closer to you in their own delusional pathetic minds.
stop making 40min videos acting like your running is the most important thing in the world. It’s freaking weird bro your ego boost from your fans insane comments is scary
Nothingface wrote:
I am wondering whether Flober has considered…having an offseason? Like, not a half-cooked “summer of speed” or race recovery, but a genuine break ? When is the last time this man has not been somewhere along the continuum of a marathon build?
I can get behind the whole ‘stacking bricks’ thing, and obviously it’s served him well to a point, but you don’t just keep ramping things up forever without stagnating, and a properly planned season involves losing a bit of fitness here and there for a reason. I’d say that only gets more important as you get fitter, and unlike most amateurs he hasn’t really had as many incidental breaks due to injury/life AFAIK. (I’m not sure recovering from your 75th flu of the year really counts)
I don’t know man, I’d think if you were that intent on the best marathon ever and had very few lifestyle limitations you might want to maybe come up with some kind of longer term plan?
When you go one more (tm) you don't need an offseason.
However, another win for the Brighton & Hove bummers
Ran to Japan with a new video, he joined a Japanese running camp that looks pretty cool.
Well, those 2 or 3 posters on here criticising RanToJapan look pretty silly right now.
What a brilliant new video
The last two videos from Ran To Japan have been much better than the few in between that didn’t really have any content.
I haven’t watched Cole Running’s videos before, even though they’ve been praised here. I have to say, he doesn’t come across as down to earth as people here seem to think. I even got a bit of a douchebag vibe. Though, I only watched the two most recent videos.
I like the part where he takes his family to the upper deck of the white sox stadium, wearing cubs gear, and raucously cheers for the cubs. Then he gets all sanctimonious about some white sox fans talking sh-t and segues into a discussion about how alcoholism runs in his family and people should seek help. A+ running content bloberg!
Matt "The Welsh Runner" Rees is back with another "All in" series. Will be overtrain again? Will he make it to Berlin or get injured again?
Another of the YouTubers out there with a lactate metre, trying to be like the pros running double threshold, without a clue on why or how it works.
Too many steady runs and running his workouts way, way too fast finish him off normally
I struggle with Cole. Part of me finds him as a very nerdy guy who is likable because he just seems to really love running and is borderline obsessed with it (he's said so himself it's all he consumes and researches/reads in his spare time). I like the fact of a wonky looking kid moving up to an elite level. And then the other part of me agrees with you and gets the vibe he tries to come off elitist and act like he knows more than he really does (even if he is a PT and has some good knowledge there). I'm more invested in Cole's videos than others like Floberg or Ben is running though because Cole's vibe is still better than those guys. He at least has a bit of a personality and isn't as cringeworthy with scripting his videos (despite this new Berlin series possibly, although I can at least appreciate and think it makes it much better than Cole has a filmer/editor who seems to be doing this style for him, opposed to Floberg who creates his own storyline with himself as the main character and just goes way too overboard on dramatizing things that are pointless and there comes off very asinine)
Sethfan69 wrote:
I like the part where he takes his family to the upper deck of the white sox stadium, wearing cubs gear, and raucously cheers for the cubs. Then he gets all sanctimonious about some white sox fans talking sh-t and segues into a discussion about how alcoholism runs in his family and people should seek help. A+ running content bloberg!
lol. man you know i really did think floberg was a pretty decent midwest family guy a couple years ago...but even hearing something like this be in the video (side bar - no way in heck im watching the guy's half hour speicals anymore myself since the content is just dumb at this point), just makes me laugh. dude truly is finding a way to make something out of nothing to spark his viewers or make his fans think he is so deep and insightful. its crazy and i really think the guy has a mental disorder although im sure he'd denied it and never admit it. there's 'art' and then there's just being a bit of a lunatic and trying to pass it off as your 'art'. as with other shoetubers, seems like floberg has really developed a cult following of mindless go one more douchebros / other priviledged white males who are fathers and also think running is cool.
seriously i cant even fathom how he weaved in an alcoholism discussion in a video thats supposed to be about his self centered high mileage running endeavor. that is just weird and fishing for emotion from braindead viewers for no reason. its not that serious floberg (for the 100th time). insufferable lol
I\'ve One Leg Shorter Than The Other wrote:
Matt "The Welsh Runner" Rees is back with another "All in" series. Will be overtrain again? Will he make it to Berlin or get injured again?
Another of the YouTubers out there with a lactate metre, trying to be like the pros running double threshold, without a clue on why or how it works.
Too many steady runs and running his workouts way, way too fast finish him off normally
Been sh*te since he left his club coach. Waste of time
The Greatest of All Time, Still the Original Running YouTuber is getting up in the wee hours of the morning, having a breakfast of Reese's Pieces and getting thwarted by a thunderstorm.
Good day for YouTubers in the British 5k championship race. Up and coming YouTuber* Josh Kerr takes the victory peeling away from Team Makou’s Rory Leonard who valiantly went for the win by trying to run the sting out of Kerr. Kerrs quality shone through and Rory Leonard was overtaken for second by Nick Besters new bestie Jack Kavanagh.
*sarcasm if you couldn’t tell.
Brighton jogging fan wrote:
God Bester's going to be even more insufferable after this.
Just excellent wrote:
Well, those 2 or 3 posters on here criticising RanToJapan look pretty silly right now.
What a brilliant new video
The fact that the new video has no sponsored segments and is unanimously enjoyed seems like evidence that we were correct. It's not like I was saying the dude was cooked. Personally, I was optimistic he'd find the right balance going forward.
I think he may have even taken the feedback to heart despite staunchly defending himself. I imagine there's at least one sponsor he could've inserted into this video and he chose not to do any.