The Trials and Tribulations of Running YouTubers

I think he's going to try his 100-miler again and never address the radio outage.

As much as I hate Bare and the roids... I tried the Apple Cinnamon, and the Mango, and they are actually damn good. They didn't upset my stomach like a lot of other well known brands. They don't taste as sweet, but I'm concerned its another Spring Gel fiasco with the amount of carbs advertised.

Since they don't impact my gut at all I'm wondering if the carb content is more like 12g rather than the advertised 24/25g

Isn't SJD supposed to be racing Pikes Peak in 3 weeks? I can't remember if it was the marathon or the ascent this year. If he's posting all of his runs on strava, this is quite the taper.

I am hoping to see him there (he'll certainly be out of my sight by hydro street though).

Should I wear the letsrun shirt? Funny, or cringe?

Imagine you’re right and this is why bloberg has been struggling to run his targeted times the last few marathons since joining BPN? Hitting glycogen depletion by mile 20 and left wondering what was missing from his training block lol so he added pushups, higher mileage, ratcheting up the paces only to repeat the same failed results

that’s a bit harsh. I’m guessing a lot of these people lean way more to the hobby side of hobbyjogger than your average LetsRun poster.
they lack the knowledge of what makes a decent coach and are probably a little intimidated by the more experienced/professional options.

London has done a job on her no doubt. Philly has definitely spiraled since then.
I think she has lost the fun in running and it ironically is a grind now and she isn’t loving it.
she just needs to stop worrying about times or splits during training and just follow her program without thinking and go out and run to feel. This might reduce all the anxiety and pressure for a bit.

Calling Philly a hobby jogger is just a virtue signal to other people who don't like her for whatever reason. When you put Philly and hobby jogger in the same sentence all you're doing is showing how low you're IQ is and you don't run .

Now I'm not even a fan of the content at the minute. It's like everything is a drama, it's all bad news all the time. There's definitely a case to be made for going back to the UK and finding what works for her, not forcing the US thing and tbh an odd coaching relationship.

This game is easy and she has talent. Run alot , enjoy it , race a bit , enjoy that too.

What we get now, train alot, don't enjoy it, race sporadically, not enjoying that either . I mean change something to turn the not enjoying to enjoying. It starts with the training.

I started watching Philly because I wanted to follow a female runner/content creator and she seemed fun and a bit unusual, but her content has become just totally exhausting now, I cannot

Lily Partridge ran a 15:17 5k last night I doubt Philly could break 16 in her current shape

And Andy will see us…… on the nèxt one!

Love it

The endless spam of the Sydney marathon from fluencers will be upon us soon enough. Can't wait for them to tell us how difficult it was for them to qualify.

Sifan Hasan surely wins the woman’s side in Sydney but the men’s I struggle to see Kipchoge winning it however much I’d like to. Legese vs Ngetich seems the likely battle for 1st.

Winning times I’m going 2:19:20 for Hasan and then 2:05:43 for men’s.

Would be nice if some (any?) of these influencers actually talk about the top end of a major marathon and the contenders etc.. They all claim to love road running so much but I’m not sure I’ve heard one British or American running YouTuber actually talk about it.

Marathon handbook normally does a pretty good run down on each major marathon. There’s a new one out now I’m about to listen to

The US wouldn't enforce their influencer regulations at the moment but the EU and UK (and maybe Canada too) would certainly would. Not surprised the disclosures start when they're in Europe. The whole thing is really just an amazing grift. Kofuzi is the one who really started it though.

It's just too much, feels like she needs to take a break

BITR’s first “dirt division” podcast from Chamonix is also, somehow, even more cringe than their regular shows. Taylor cries about not finishing Leadville, while also having the epiphany that so many people have much worse struggles. There’s a lot of talk about how it’s perfectly okay to spend lots of money and waste people’s time to DNF races other people wanted to get into if you’re just not feeling it. Thomas and Carl have a disastrous trail “half marathon” hike (10 miles actually). Carl falls down and yelps for help. Thomas in his cowboy hat cuts the line for first aid to get Carl a bandaid for his scraped knee. Thomas trashes French croissants… could go on and on. I do actually find this entertaining in the way I used to find the jersey shore entertaining in how horrible it is.

I think all influencers are neurotic but she is off the fu***** charts

Ben Felton ran 1:11:44 at the Stockholm Half Marathon today. The course is slightly hilly, but it’s one of the biggest half marathons in Europe. Breaking 2:30 at the next marathon in Chicago will be a real challenge.

Matt “Bike Support” Choi PR’d in the marathon today…with a 1,000+ foot downhill. No word yet on whether his e-bike minions flattened any other competitors this time.