The Trials and Tribulations of Running YouTubers

Really good running and I'll be very interested to hear your recap. From following you on Strava and YouTube, I have thought you have been a bit over the top with keeping your easy runs easy (slow) and you doubled so much that you sacrificed a solid mid-week long run (e.g. 20-26km on Wednesday). I am a big fan of Norwegian Singles but I do think the marathon demands some 'harder' training. I see so many people struggle to convert their fast times in the shorter distances to the marathon because they aren't conditioned for 30-42.2km. Once again, you ran amazingly and basically had even splits across the whole race!

This is the only online "persona" I genuinely think is working for hobby joggers with zero agenda. I also saw FOD put a Chinese shoes review out, saying sirpoc had recommended them to him. Not content with exposing over coaching, or making YouTubers who run 30-40% more look silly at London, now the guy is trying to take down Nike and Adidas. He's been sharing gold knowledge here and elsewhere about what shoes you can get for half the price, sometimes more bad even double the quality.

On one hand, he should be creating content. On the other hand, I would hate it to ever get the the point where he's shilling. It's all part of the charm.

You should check out the main thread if you haven't for a while. Sirpoc coached a few runners to fantastic marathons. The guy who did grandmas posted there, 2:28 I think in horrific conditions. Again, the build looked very easy to me in comparison to other plans, but it was a huge PB for him. It was almost exactly like the OG plan from sirpoc, with just the hard bit at the end, rather than peaking early. I actually think the best distance might be the marathon for that kinda training, if you have 6 months under your belt with the vanilla first.

Yeah, if he ever uttered something like "Use code sirpoc at checkout for a free bl0wjob by Huberman and a good ole' Nick Barebacking" he'd no longer be the working-class hero he is.

Eric & Ben are off! Be interesting to see their opening 5k split. I’m saying 16:57 Ben and 17:23 Eric

Hopefully they can manage the blazing sun and it doesn’t affect their times too much. Rotten luck to have such warm weather this time of the year in Chicago

Rotten luck for such warm weather? What am I missing? I'm not physically in Chicago, but the forecast looks pretty comfortable. (56 degrees F at the start... maybe low 60's towards the end of their race.) How is that rotten luck?

Who uses Fahrenheit these days ya spanner? 5/6 degrees is ideal running weather. Could be treble that by the end

Looks like they’ve gone out hot and slowing by 10k

Floberg is off pace through 10k. Currently averaging 5:48 / 5:49 which might be a very small PR but won’t get him 2:30.

Hopefully he’s planning a huge positive split or else it’s already over. If he is already at max capacity and sees the writing on the wall, I’ll be curious to see whether he has the mental strength to still finish strong even knowing it’s not the result he wants.

Floberg is on 2:32 pace, slowing down a bit at 10k? Maybe he listens to this thread and stay patience?

Eyestone giving some great commentary, Love that

Is anyone else tracking Matt Choi? The blowups of all blowups is about to come, unless of course he's taking it to new levels and actually riding the skateboards and e-bikes that are part of the traveling Matt Choi circus. They really ought to randomly drug test this clown at the end of the race. It might send a message to the steroid bro influencers!

Speaking of roid raging influencers, glad to see Chicago is not infected by the likes of Nick Bare and Truett Hanes. Perhaps the artificial intelligence TCS wants us to love so much did an analysis on what would happen if big marathons embraced known roid users with influencer bibs and pumped them up to drive interest, leading to widespread roid usage and long-term health problems. Now to solve that problem just test Matt Choi, and to make it look like you're not targeting just him, Thomas from Believe in the Run too because that guy is definitely clean.

Felton through half way in 71 high, on pace for a small PB. But already over 5k behind Mantz and about 800m behind Dakotah Popehn. They should probably also test this guy.

You can’t be off pace if your goal is NO:TIME. That’s why he’s a brilliant marketer. His loyal followers will congratulate him on the build of a lifetime and he stays legitimate in their eyes.

good luck to Sabria

Lotta race left but hes looking pretty solid through half. I know it’s obvious he’s desperate to break 2:30 but he should get a nice pr if he can just keep doing what he’s doing (unless he starts puking soon like he does in all his workouts)

Yep looks as if he’s tracking for a strong positive split if he can keep this up.

Update on Floberg split?

He’s averaging 5:45/mile through 30k, needs to average 5:43/mile to break 2:30.

well within grasp, unless he’s redlining already.

He was redlining - he’s blown up last 2 miles, no chance.

Looks like he (Floberg) realized he needed to pick it up after the half... split 5:42 through 25km, 5:44 through 30k. Now he's blowing up. 5:48 for 20mi split and 5:58 through 21mi.