The Trials and Tribulations of Running YouTubers

Also enjoying his instagram post where he has put the strava time screenshot on the image itself which is 2 mins quicker, but has conveniently hidden his chip time at the very bottom of the caption. lol.

I mean a 2:32 is honestly pretty good considering the lack of quality in his build. For most people a 72 min half would equate to a 2:31 high or 2:32; considering he did almost no marathon specific training it's still solid. When I ran 2:29 [albeit on a course with over 1000ft of elevation gain] I had run 69:47. He just needs to drop his massively inflated ego and go back to what worked for him before BPN.

What about not doing an 8x800 4 days before your big marathon.

A 72:13 half five weeks out isn't indicative of sub-2:30.

But let's be generous and say he was in 71:30 shape fully tapered. By Vdot, that's worth about 2:29:30, assuming you have adequately trained for the event. A skim through Floberg's Strava over the last two months and I can't find a session where he ran more than 6 consecutive miles at or around MP without some sort of float, rest, or puke break. It's a sea of half-mile/mile repeats.

When you frame it like it, his half performance, and inability to scale that up to the full marathon, makes more sense.

The most alarming thing in my eyes is that Floberg has an extremely aggressive three-week taper — from 100 miles (four weeks out) down to 80 → 55 → 30 (the week before the race).
I’d argue that he lost crucial sharpness in those final weeks.

Such a steep taper likely reduced mitochondrial activity, blood volume etc.

To me..he looks more like he’s in the middle of an off-season..

The guy is an utter moron. First km in 3:17 and then tries to run sub 2:30 pace before unsurprisingly massively blowing up. Makes flowberg's attempt look sensible.

I mean the guy is corny as hell and a snake oil salesman, but you prob don’t need to come after his marriage and kids. It’s not that serious, it’s running lol

I've heard the conditions today in Chicago were even more brutal than they were at that 10k at Vitality in London where Nick and Ben ran heroic sub 30s.

Core memory, bro! So blessed!

This was my initial thoughts as well. Way too aggressive in taper. Also unnecessary last long run / workout

But then again, the guy might’ve just had a bit of a bad day at the office, and I feel like he had to give his absolute all just to scrape this kind of result and justify all the cringe he’s delivered in the videos.

Yasso 800s four days before a marathon is insane. He probably saw Mantz do 8x800m ten days before and thought it was a good idea.

I unsubscribed and hit "Do Not Recommend this Channel" almost two years ago.

Thanking my previous self for not wasting another second considering whether to watch another minute on this shmuck.

Same with kofuzi, philly, scullion, serious runner. It's all mindmush content.

Can’t wait to see how floberg makes himself even more insufferable for his hour long race recap video. honestly the bloke can’t lose - he PRs even by a second and he can tout that angle and have all his psycho fans stroke his ego to congratulate. He strikes out and will up the ante on the artistic style of a video to make his fans praise him for being so creative and such a strong role model of a man “you’ll get em next time my hero, great effort today”. all while he pockets $1k/yr from 30+ ppl for “coaching”.

makes me sick this guy. floberg if you’re reading this, please just do us a favor and don’t make up an excuse for the race performance. acknowledge this thread and everyone pointing out your training flaws. then fix it for your next marathon and you can finally go sub 2:30. at least take the training advice while we all painfully watch you never change your main character syndrome persona! give the family some love now that the race is over! and please never do your tree time talks anymore and stop subjecting your poor wife to being an actor in your self centered running films LOL

the reality there have always been a bunch of 2:30 guys even way before influencers who thought they were better than the are. "Sub -elites" are the worst.

Of course the 2:30 guys of 20 years ago would be 2:20 guys today....and the scrotbergs of the world would be 2:40 guys w/o super shoes.

***Looks like eric already stopped by to lay down an excuse about it being too warm for a sub 2:30

He was likely helping out a bunch of his fans that were struggling. Bonus points for being modest. Fordy is such an inspiration.

IIRC, a 3h32 is a PB for him. Does make a nice change from his usual tactic of blowing up at 30k.

So cant kick him too hard.

Its clear that his friend Hayden was pacing him like mad. They came in together. Maybe Hayden should coach him in future...

Dude has a mental problem. It wasn’t that warm. You can say any marathon was warm if there’s any sun during then with that logic ffs. Floberg good lord man stop pointing to other factors like weather. It was in the 50s for the majority of the race and the sun is come and go. This was a fantastic weather year on a world record course and you know it. Get real man if you’re gonna bring up excuses right away for your failed 2:30 attempt that only bots and braindead followers who idolize you care about. It’s not that serious bro like you’ve said, yet you apparently do make it this serious with all your time spent on the training and videos. just accept your race for what it was and own it dude. insane how there’s always has to be a cop out from delusional ppl

Where did he claim that? Can’t find it. Not surprised that he did it, though.

God bless you sir.