Road races are not personal film sets. They’re collective athletic events, built on fairness, safety, and community. When someone — particularly a high-visibility influencer — repeatedly bends or breaks the rules for content, it threatens the integrity of the sport and disrespects the athletes around them.
Hopefully Derek will start caring about the rules banning selfie sticks from the course soon, and then the roving Kofuzi and Kofuzi wannabe clown show will finally have to do what the running channel does: time trials that don't interfere with anybody else because they're not part of an event.
Kofuzi is much smarter and more discreet about breaking rules and hovering in the "grey area." I strongly suspect Kofuzi is now getting prior approval for the selfie stick. Matt Choi just doesn't care.
Currently forecast suggests its going to be a little warm in Berlin. I think we'll see some carnage - not as bad as London perhaps, but still enough to see some blowups from folks who don't adjust accordingly
Kofuzi is much smarter and more discreet about breaking rules and hovering in the "grey area." I strongly suspect Kofuzi is now getting prior approval for the selfie stick. Matt Choi just doesn't care.
He didn't get permission the time he was running Boston. BAA was going to make a big deal of it, then Kofuzi announced he was going to donate his ad sense revenue (but not appearance fee revenue, so selfless) to charity to cut them off. It was a cynical use of charity to forestall criticism, and is when I started to really not like Kofuzi.
Kofuzi needs to talk to his pals at sport tours first. I hope he doesn't show up to the Chicago Marathon with his annoying screaming and selfie stick waving. I'd hate to see someone take it from him.
Have there been any reports of people being jabbed or impeded by Kofuzi’s selfie stick? That would help a lot. Apparently the sticks have become pretty popular at big races by runners in general. If no competitors are complaining I don’t see any races singling him out. He knows he’s breaking rules and just doesn’t seem to think there will be any consequences. He specifically acknowledged breaking a triathlon’s stick ban and told Serious Runner something to the effect of “better to beg for forgiveness than ask for permission.”
Currently forecast suggests its going to be a little warm in Berlin. I think we'll see some carnage - not as bad as London perhaps, but still enough to see some blowups from folks who don't adjust accordingly
Estimates on how many YouTubers will not adjust to the conditions, go off at faster than goal pace because they feel good, only to then blow up and crawl to the finish?
Kofuzi is much smarter and more discreet about breaking rules and hovering in the "grey area." I strongly suspect Kofuzi is now getting prior approval for the selfie stick. Matt Choi just doesn't care.
He didn't get permission the time he was running Boston. BAA was going to make a big deal of it, then Kofuzi announced he was going to donate his ad sense revenue (but not appearance fee revenue, so selfless) to charity to cut them off. It was a cynical use of charity to forestall criticism, and is when I started to really not like Kofuzi.
How thoughtful of Kofuzi to donate the $275.38 he earned from the video. Such courage.
I guess runners lives don’t matter to the BAA for a measly couple of hundred of dollars.
I've followed many marathon plans, read many books and watched many training videos and I've never known a runner run so little actual marathon pace than Floberg since he's been with BPN.
I guess the BPN coaching works for the juices "hybrid" athletes only
Ryan Thomson, who is criminally undersubscribed, put out his last video before Berlin. He decided to take some salt and managed to add 14 pounds of water weight to himself, he was so puffed up I thought by the thumbnail he had been beaten up! (by his dad 😀😀) He must have taken 100g of salt to cause that level of bloating.
He has a great channel and one worth watching, I hope he does well in Berlin this weekend
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I've followed many marathon plans, read many books and watched many training videos and I've never known a runner run so little actual marathon pace than Floberg since he's been with BPN.
I guess the BPN coaching works for the juices "hybrid" athletes only
Looks like he did 3x1.5mi in the morning but was supposed to do 6 so did another 3 in the afternoon. If done at true ~HMP that doesn't seem like a bad marathon session, of course he split it in half and did both halves probably a little fast so mixed bag.
Agreed that his LRs seem very confusing. WTF is a guy who wants to break 2:30 doing running 20@7:50 this late in the build? I'm aiming for like 2:45ish and my "easy" longs are 7:30 at the slowest. And I've only done 1 easy LR in the last 6 weeks
Have there been any reports of people being jabbed or impeded by Kofuzi’s selfie stick? That would help a lot. Apparently the sticks have become pretty popular at big races by runners in general. If no competitors are complaining I don’t see any races singling him out. He knows he’s breaking rules and just doesn’t seem to think there will be any consequences. He specifically acknowledged breaking a triathlon’s stick ban and told Serious Runner something to the effect of “better to beg for forgiveness than ask for permission.”
Him, I don't know I've seen a few of his shorter races look a little iffy with his stupid selfie stick. But I have run two races, one regional marathon and one local half, where people stop with their selfie sticks to take photos at the start line. It really caused traffic pile ups at both of them. On a crowded course, it's selfish and self centered behavior that can ruin the races of people who trained hard for whatever goals they had. It's obnoxious and totally main character syndrome. But Kofuzi posts Black Lives Matter Strava maps, so I guess it's really not about him. Or so he wants us to believe.
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