The Trials and Tribulations of Running YouTubers

His Instagram story says he had an undisclosed foot injury but he worked with a PT and it was better, so he ran. He didn't specify the injury but sounded like PF to me. He was surprised that running 30+ miles with massive elevation made it hurt, especially on the downhill. Robbe ran 9 miles then hitchhiked back, which seems appropriate for a guy who supplements his income by pulling trash off the streets of Baltimore.

I think she has potential to PB again. She gets in her head too much.

She needs to see a sports psychologist. If she is already seeing one, she needs to find another.

so now Philly has: posted a Youtube video saying she's not excited about doing the Marathon, posted an IG reel saying how excited she is to do the Marathon, another IG post saying she doesnt think she'll be ready in time for the Marathon now

for the love of god, there is a difference between being authentic vs. giving us your every single thought, and this is partly why the influencer-athlete schtick doesn't work out well, because athletes feel pressured into giving us nonsense updates to fulfil half of the contractual requirements, meanwhile the rest of the elite field can turn their phone off, go for a run, and digest it however they want but without flip-flapping publicly infront of the entire internet.

Yeah this is the problem, unless you're a certain personality type, it's difficult to make the athlete-influencer combo work.

Phily has a fairly neurotic personality (no shame in that, I also share many of the same traits), but the difference is all my over-thinking, over-analysing and coming up with stories to explain stuff is just in my head.

Whereas for her, it plays out in fairly erratic content, questionable narratives and boom and bust cycles.

Every shoetuber gets ripped on here, so it’s weird how someone always pops on to attack the person who comments about Felton. I really hope it’s his lazy gf actually doing something, since she won’t work, and not Felton being even more fragile than his constant injuries make him seem.

Kofuzi's latest video, about his Sydney Marathon training, has an interesting description:

Why would you include your follower count in the description if it was really unsponsored? He did, after almost 300 pages on this thread, disclose where and how he got his influencer bib. I guess that's progress.

I also surmise that Strava has done something smart since buying out Runna: stop the influencer spending. (Though I suppose Runna's influencer spending paid off as they got a really, really favorable exit given the subscriber numbers of their app).

Running youtube clickbait thumbnails have gone too far...

“Keely has entered the chat”.

Stop trolling. If people are unnecessarily cruel and unkind rather than posting constructive criticism then it’s only right people stick up for the subject of the nastiness

Ben and his wife seem like nice people. If you don’t like their videos then don’t watch. Many many people, myself included think they are wonderful and very enjoyable

Does that mean Kofuzi only considers it sponsored if he's also getting paid directly for it? I'd say getting a free Sports Tour trip (which would presumably include ticket, flight and hotel) and a whole bunch of free gear is already a lot for someone like him.

Same applies to you. If you don't like this thread, don't read it or stop visiting this message board.

Terribly made point. I do like this thread. It’s a thread to discuss the trials and tribulations of running YouTubers, not to slag off and be unnecessarily nasty about them.

im well within my rights to call out people who do that.

Watching the videos of a channel you hate is way weirder. So stop being a snowflake

I previously commented on how 'thehovebummer' seems to have a weirdly personal vendetta against Ben as his comments stand out from the normal 'let's point and laugh at the shoetubers' and are more in the territory of 'I'm a weird stalker who obsessively hate-watches his content and makes a load of abusive personal comments about both Ben and his gf.'

If I see someone getting obsessed/weird I'll happily point that out, regarding any runner mentioned here. It's amusing that certain posters here believe that means I must be either the runner in question or their close family. I've previously been 'outed' as being Seth Demoor, Josh Kerr, Ben Parkes and now I, along with 'BitMuch', am apparently both Ben Felton and his girlfriend. When in reality, as a long-time contributor, I just believe this thread should be light-hearted and fun, not creepy and unnecessarily cruel.

Spot on post this.

To be fair I think Felton is probably sensible enough to not read this but if he does there are some of us who don’t find yours and Margaret’s channel too bad. Bit ad heavy but good luck to you on your marathon build and her new job helping the channel

Hi Ben's girlfriend. Please go back to being weird on his videos.

Thank you

- The Internet

Kind of sad that a hobby jogger who's half assing his training (for years) only gets a free bib and gear but no sponsor for the video serious :(

What is this world coming to?

btw- He's been doing the subscriber count thing since almost the beginning - check this banger here when he had 11

She does have a job. Both her and Ben are company directors of Ben is Running Ltd. Easy to see on companies house.

talking of BIR, i see his little cameo on Cole Running's latest vid but what an absolute shun of Boomshakalakalakalaka. Anyone else notice it? Clearly not everyone is buddy buddy in the youtuber world.

and why is Bester wearing an England vest anyway. As far as im aware, he's not ran for England yet.

On Bester’s video of the race, I felt he described Cole in an odd way. On his voice over he said, and I quote, “That guy in front of me, to the right. His name is Cole. He’s in fine form and he’s targeting Berlin marathon’. Probably reading way too much into it but it seemed to me at the time that he didn’t want to actively promote Cole’s channel.