The Trials and Tribulations of Running YouTubers

Serious question, why did Kofuzi fly back from Sydney to then fly to Japan a week later. Wouldn't there be less carbon emissions that a liberal like him cares so much about if he just hung out in Australia for a week or two and then flew to Japan?

Segments for airline status?

Philly Bowden is frantically googling how to run for Uruguay in the 2028 Olympics

The dude has a wife and kids. Maybe he wanted to spend time with his family? What a bizarre question.

My advice for everyone is to try to find something in life you love as much as this dude hates Kofuzi.

That sub-elite shoetuber Jakob A Ingebrigtsen is gonna get a lot of stick in the next few days

I recently found out Kofuzi has his own podcast. Listened for a few minutes and he told a story about adopting a dog and being a stay at home dad. Very intriguing stuff.

In an alternate universe, Kofuzi stays in Sydney for 2 weeks and this dude makes a post ripping him for leaving his family for a month while on vacation in Australia and Japan.

Well done to the FOD runner for the 71 min half, very tidy result indeed.

Kofuzi is one of the biggest grifters there is. He's the type of guy to complain if he can't use an expired coupon.

Norwegian Singles, baby!

Dawn Broom's husband and mobile videographer here.

Yes it's certainly the case that parkrun age grading is very generous to the older female runners. As Tim says, it's based on the 2006 factors whilst female masters running has improved considerably in the past two decades.

For a point of reference, if we put Dawn's recent times into the recent age grading factors they come out around 85-87%. Of course these get harder every year as Clare Elms, who is in the same age category, brings the records at 5K and under down. She broke her own 5K world record at the Mid Cheshire 5K.

In fact Dawn's best 5K this year is 21:10, which gives her an official 87.27%, or 15:55 senior female equivalent. For a point of reference, Philly Bowden's best recent 5000m time is 15:22, Hannah Irwin 15:24. Holly Archer's all-time 5K pb is 15:50. So given a normal working lifestyle, not that of a `pro runner' and fitting training in around work...well who knows what might have been?

I can see why parkrun sticks with the old factors, as you are comparing like with like across time at parkruns. Taking a further step back it does seem incredible that parkrun, with its increasing anti-competitive ethos, has something like age grading at all, with weekly emails telling you you finished in xx position in your age category. I fear that might soon be a thing of the past as parkrun continues its descent from enjoyable time trial to an event where results no longer matter.

Probably from overtraining. He should follow sirpoc on Strava and switch to Norwegian singles for the winter build. Saw he’s a new dad too, he could use the extra time saved from this structure

I was amazed how soft it is to win a medal in the women's marathon. Julia Paternain’s PBs are 15:45 / 32:38 / 1:10:05 / 2:27:23. Phily's are: 15:22 / 32:26 / 1:12:15 / 2:25:47. I know we can't use silly running maths! However, you could make the argument someone with similar talent to Phily just won a global medal. I honestly don't know if Phily could even run sub 2.35 in the conditions they had.

I am surprised Calli did favoured Chicago over a world medal.

I'm really pleased for the guy. He seems like one of the good ones. The fact that he's using sirpoc based training, even better. Would love maybe Andy to do something with him. I don't know if he's done a live before (I know that clown fordy runs does) but would be cool and could do a Q&A or something. Seems like two of the most liked guys around the amateur scene. There's a lot of crap on YouTube, I feel like this would be something in would be hard for even this thread to complain about.

Sirpoc has become almost like this urban legend but I'm here for it all it, seems like truly a good guy as well? He seems elusive in a way, but good to see some of the top YouTubers even using stuff from the legendary thread. There's a lot of negativity here but I'm genuinely happy to see this incredible HM result.

Age grading is generous in general.

It helps old people (I am as well an old person) to feel better about themselves and be more motivated with some praise and targets they couldn't achieve when younger.

I checked the equivalence it gave me couple of times, and it was not relevant to my level when I was 30 (I was never so fast at 30). And I am not better, just the best in the world have stopped running at this age.

Anyway whatever keeps the older population to exercise is good and it doesn't do any harm to anybody.

So let's rejoice even if all of this has to be taken with a grain of salt (a big one).

It just shows that Kofuzi is not making as much as people seem to think he is. He was comped flights and accommodation to and from Australia, then again to and from Tokyo. He doesn't have the money to stay out there even if he wanted to because he is a hobby journalist (if you can even call him that) He is not making good money

We have a tongue-in-cheek phrase for this.

"The older I get the faster I would have been" 😉

71 is very tidy indeed. It’s only a minute slower than Besters most recent half, faster than Cole & Felton’s most recent efforts. And faster than Flobergs PB.