Are any Boulder runners NOT in a YouTube-d training group?

Perhaps boulder was less expensive when you were younger ( than it is now)

YouTube to supplement income is smart

I thought Boulder only allows 3 unrelateds to stay in a place

S. Canaday wrote:

This is Boulder. You show up to trailheads and tracks and expect to see Olympic athletes, models, Instagram influencers and the like doing photo shoots as well as hobby vloggers taking selfies etc. all over the place every day.

Lots of "trust fund" athletes here as well.

How do you define? I know you’ve had to distance yourself from “trust fund” after many have accused you countless times here on these boards of being one yourself?

CreekPathWarrior wrote:

A lot of the "media darlings" of the past - Droddy, Masters, etc. aren't indexed, I would argue they're just married, have a job (Master's works for the Feed) ,and have a home life. Let the kids who are new in town put out content, and usher in this new wave, but you don't have to dismiss the older guys who are still relevant but just doing other things. Both can be true.

Sam Parsons articulates well how his crew has moved beyond the "status quo" that had existed.

NAZ Elite deserve credit for pioneering the openness and vulnerability of sharing the journey starting a few years earlier, yet TME has taken it to the next level especially on video and so have these other newcomers. It's no mistake that TME sells through gear drops in mere minutes, they have found the right way to connect with their core audience. The extant groups (Roots, Harriers, Boulder Track Club, Run Boulder AC) can only dream of fundraising to that level so quickly, yet it doesn't happen without smart investment in creating and releasing relevant content. Those who came before had adopted some of the new methods, yet their accounts came to seem dated - if not scripted or conversely amateurish - really quickly. It's not any of us dismissing older guys, it's simply a matter of they haven't been able to keep up. Droddy shouldn't be singled out any more than Emma or Masters or McCandless, they just happened to be the high profile performers coming on the heels of a whole lot of old heads who feel they rule the roost around town yet a vast majority of runners in Boulder couldn't name any of said old heads' accomplishments without hitting up Wikipedia (Shorter excepted).

3?

I was in places with 6 in the 80s, and I had an apartment on Spruce that was $400/month, too.

There’s the movement to change this

Yes 3 or else illegal in most of Boulder

The other side of the debate:

https://www.dailycamera.com/2020/06/12/guest-opinion-andrew-shoemaker-bedrooms-charter-amendment-has-unintended-consequences/

Is the viewer supposed to be inspired? Learn something? I felt sad and I think a little dumber after watching that CU women's video and that's not what I want to feel or think after watching women's sports! :/ There was a lot wrong with that video that went beyond the women..lack of direction, poor idea conception.

No, I don't think they are you-tube stars, omg.

biggest question wrote:

Is the viewer supposed to be inspired? Learn something? I felt sad and I think a little dumber after watching that CU women's video and that's not what I want to feel or think after watching women's sports! :/ There was a lot wrong with that video that went beyond the women..lack of direction, poor idea conception.

No, I don't think they are you-tube stars, omg.

That CU women's video looked like outtakes from The Simple Life. I guess that's college girls at any State U these days. I can see why Drew Hunter had zero use for McArthur, I don't see him enjoying being around her and her friends at all.

I don't recall the CU women being such children when I was in their kitchen. Egads.

The world is not what it appears wrote:

I don't recall the CU women being such children when I was in their kitchen. Egads.

That goes back to editing and direction, which instead of putting all this on the women I put back on the guy who is the owner of the channel. I suppose He can only work with the content he gets, but he is the director on the content! He really did them a disservice.

Another question that really keeps coming up in my mind is what kind of wizard is Mark Wetmore to be able to bring up these teams from "summer shape" to "podium shape?" That's a video I want to watch.

biggest question wrote:

The world is not what it appears wrote:

I don't recall the CU women being such children when I was in their kitchen. Egads.

That goes back to editing and direction, which instead of putting all this on the women I put back on the guy who is the owner of the channel. I suppose He can only work with the content he gets, but he is the director on the content! He really did them a disservice.

Another question that really keeps coming up in my mind is what kind of wizard is Mark Wetmore to be able to bring up these teams from "summer shape" to "podium shape?" That's a video I want to watch.

NO kidding.

We just ran. None of this driving around BS, tag-along cars with water, breaks to speak on camera. We ran.

biggest question wrote:

Is the viewer supposed to be inspired? Learn something? I felt sad and I think a little dumber after watching that CU women's video and that's not what I want to feel or think after watching women's sports! :/ There was a lot wrong with that video that went beyond the women..lack of direction, poor idea conception.

No, I don't think they are you-tube stars, omg.

I'm a high schooler and usually, I do feel a little extra inspired after watching them.

128k wrote:

biggest question wrote:

Is the viewer supposed to be inspired? Learn something? I felt sad and I think a little dumber after watching that CU women's video and that's not what I want to feel or think after watching women's sports! :/ There was a lot wrong with that video that went beyond the women..lack of direction, poor idea conception.

No, I don't think they are you-tube stars, omg.

I'm a high schooler and usually, I do feel a little extra inspired after watching them.

Usually?

So in this case did you?

Can you help us understand specifically what you found extra inspiring or motivating in this particular video?

I follow a lot of runners on social media and..i mean like when I see Emma Coburn post a hype video for those races and I can see how fit their group is, that's inspiring.

When she did the how to videos for rehab and prefab, I learned something.

Honestly watching William Leer explore biking is fun and him making coffees has a unique ASMR quality to it.

I'm genuinely curious what you found specifically interesting, inspiring or motivating about this video.

128k wrote:

biggest question wrote:

Is the viewer supposed to be inspired? Learn something? I felt sad and I think a little dumber after watching that CU women's video and that's not what I want to feel or think after watching women's sports! :/ There was a lot wrong with that video that went beyond the women..lack of direction, poor idea conception.

No, I don't think they are you-tube stars, omg.

I'm a high schooler and usually, I do feel a little extra inspired after watching them.

All I had in HS was a picture of Rono climbing the Snake River Canyon. You kids have it way better.

I define it as parents have an actual "trust fund" or bank account set up for their kids (and these kids....err young adults) use their parents money for stuff. Thousands of dollars here and there. I didn't even get an allowance growing up...forget about a "hand-me-down" car even too! It's just a matter of fact that some people come to Boulder from very rich families. Wealth is often quite generational. Athletes that are on a "gear only sponsorship" that don't work an actual job but have all day to train and travel and pay rent (or even buy a place in Boulder) and say they are "full time pros". That is a common thing here it seems. Probably more with triathletes compared to runners though. I'm not saying it's bad, but it is not like most places. Boulder is a pretty expensive place to live and run. Just look at the real estate market. You can believe me or not (and Rojo knows), but my parents were "poor enough" by Cornell standards that I got a lot of need based aid there. Federal loans, grants, scholarships etc. So much that going to Cornell was less expensive than Oregon State would have been (I'm from Oregon so that would have been public school, in-state). Granted I had to work part time during school to make ends meet. Heck even at Hansons I had to work in the shoe store 30 hours a week to make ends meet (like most guys on the team).

joedirtydildo wrote:

S. Canaday wrote:

This is Boulder. You show up to trailheads and tracks and expect to see Olympic athletes, models, Instagram influencers and the like doing photo shoots as well as hobby vloggers taking selfies etc. all over the place every day.

Lots of "trust fund" athletes here as well.

How do you define? I know you’ve had to distance yourself from “trust fund” after many have accused you countless times here on these boards of being one yourself?

Me and the boys are gonna hit this LoNg run hard! Smash that subscribe button!

The cringest YouTuber I have come across is an account called V02MaxProductions. They did a collab with The Athlete Special a few weeks ago and looked so thirsty to be in the company of young runners. I got major, "How do you do, fellow kids?" type vibes.

small triGger wrote:

Any old farts 35+ like me interested in going out there to make some parody videos? Could have some beautiful slo mo shots of one of us throwing down a 7’20 mile, beer gut and all.

I think this is a brilliant idea! please do it.

A youtube parody (in the best possible taste of course) of the popular running you tubers would be very funny,. Dress up as Sage with some painted on hair and oversized hokas, would be hilarious. Do one of Seth on speed, filming from 756 angles etc etc, my mind is full of ideas. Get some 'big boned' person to do Ginger runner, etc etc. This could be like a SNL show but ribbing youtube 'personalities'.