The Trials and Tribulations of Running YouTubers

Blimey the comment about my latest video is longer than the video itself. I only got halfway through :)

Andy FOD Runner advised not to let this seeming praise goto my head. I will try…

I thought of featuring MARM but could not find his Strava. Outrageous. Even pro athletes appear there. What else am I going to talk about …

He is under the name ‘middle aged running man’ on Strava

I could tell you a secret but don't tell anyone else ... MARM can be found in Strava as .. -> MARM <- aka Middle Aged Running Man.

Enjoyed the video as always Tim, but I did raise an eyebrow with you saying that Matt Rees had had a consistent build up - from his strava he seemed to be bottling every other session or long run?

And sure maybe it was the lack of long runs as he's claimed in his video, or maybe its that he blows himself to bits every 3-6 months and takes extended time off? Tenner says he'll have multiple 0 mile weeks between now and Valencia, and the same before London, and the same before Berlin next year.

This reads like a Patrick Bateman review

It's a weird one. The only way it makes sense to me is if he's in 2:26 shape. Maybe 2:27. But even that doesn't make sense because the floats should be 6:15-6:45 or so. 7:00 at the absolute slowest. I wonder if he had a 6:45 pace target for all of the floats and he hit it on the first one (6:43), but faded on the rest (7:10, 6:56, 7:36, 7:42, 8:04). I think the slow floats reveal the truth. He might be more aerobically fit but his legs are dead. Doing this 2 weeks out instead of 3 didn't help.

Gotta hit 5:25 pace even if the floats become jogs in NO:TIME

Floberg, this training is absolutely perfect for baiting you into a huge positive split. Run the first half at 5:50 pace!! Negative split for the 2:30. Go sub 2:30 another day.