The Trials and Tribulations of Running YouTubers

Whilst correct, also worth some context that NB Manchester are tighter than belief, it’s almost like they’re offended that athletes want paying beyond a McDonalds wage. But but but, we’ll put you up in a random house in Manchester and give you some kit.

No surprises the group sucks ass.

I just got recommended a video by total running productions. I used to be subscribed to that channel years ago, but the blatant use of clickbait turned me off so much that I not only unsubbed, I also told YT to not recommend me any more of his videos.

Seems they've forgotten about that. I just licked "don't recommend" once more on some "THIS IS VERY BAD NEWS FOR THE MARATHON OMG YOU GUYS" video.

Feck that guy.

Jumpman is much better for non clickbait track and field news

Parkes needs to step back from Strava for a bit and reset mentally. Catch up on Chois "Everything I eat for marathon prep".

Before, he used to pull in unlicensed clips from other channels and TV, but now that his channel has blown up, he’s basically stuck using still images and these super fake-looking stock videos. I’ve no idea how much GST ever paid him, since he was hyping their events practically nonstop.

Since it's GST they probably didn't pay him lol

Mark, you have not watched The Room it seems

Who runs faster in Chicago: Floberg or Yowana?

In 2024, Floberg ran 2:33:59 and Yowana ran 2:39:00. It seems like Yowana has done nothing except stack mileage since last year’s race.

don’t like either of them. Floberg’s videos are pure second-hand embarrassment, and Yowana’s videos are so long that I can’t be bothered to watch an hour and a half of unedited stream of consciousness. However, Yowana has a much healthier attitude toward running, and he might actually run without time pressure and get close to 2:30. Floberg is so obsessed with marathon times that he’s more likely to fail.

Looks like Phily's been racing again according to Strava and not happy with the result.

Seems to be falling into the trap of overthinking everything and then suffering under the pressure of racing knowing the channel depends on it.

I'm pretty heartless, but even the most devoted subscriber will eventually get bored of endless sob stories and crap results.

Ran 37:53 last year and 38:44 this year.

Jake Barraclough is on another level. Two days ago he ran 50k in partly mountainous terrain at a pace of 3:55/km (6:18/mile), then ran another 12k later that same day.

I've said this before but Floberg simply cannot turn up at Chicago and "just run" because has simply has no idea what marathon pace feels like. If he did then in his previous 2 or 3 peak marathons, he would have slowed it down after 5k when he clearly went out faster.

Midlife runner gets some stick on here but he seems like the kind of guy who really would just go out and run and take whatever the running gods give him that day. He does a lot of runs to effort and in the long run that will help him.

Floberg wants to hit a particular pace. Be it in races or training he must hit that pace. Is it too fast? Does he feel like sh1t? It doesn't matter, he must hit that pace! This is why most of his marathons go very wrong at the end, particularly it seems since he got in with the BPN bros.

I honestly don't think he's juiced and that's probably showing up his coach who seems to excel in coaching cheats

I watch both although I have to say that I liked Floberg more back when he was struggling to break 3:00 (Kofuzi beat him to it) and became a “sponsored” BPN athlete. I actually like Yowana’s videos. He has a great personality and sense of humor. I put them on while doing chores around the house and they also good for treadmill runs.

Yowana isn't the type of personality I'm drawn to and the videos are far too long but I respect his work ethic and attitude towards running. I hope he has a good race.

Does Yowana have Strava?

In the time you took to post this question you really couldn’t have been bothered to take 2 seconds to type “yowana” into the Strava search bar and find out? some people man

Yes, he does. Lmao

It must be some kind of theory about maximizing YT revenue that he thinks it's better to have a few people leave super long videos on in the background than attract a larger audience with shorter videos. Fair enough, but it's not for me.