The Trials and Tribulations of Running YouTubers

He will run NYC and post it on Strava as a long run workout after realizing he has no shot at a time.

Put in what - 15 miles a week more - and got 7 seconds out of it. He only needs 400 mile weeks to get there, it will happen.

Flowy has run himself into a corner. Last year the dude was talking about OQT, let’s not forget that. He’s clearly hung up on 2:30. I just don’t get the move to run NYC. It wasn’t planned before his Chicago performance. And he wants to run Houston as well? Brother does not think physiology applies to him. I agree with a previous post, Flowy is the guy who always has to tell you how happy he is because he’s not. I think he’s nearing the end of his shoetuber days too…he’s running out of runway.

Floberg could very well blow up with an injury in NYC and truly end up with No:Time

Precisely. After I broke 2:30 I didn't make a big deal of it. I had my post race beer, went home and showered and opened my laptop to prepare for the corporate business day on Monday. Of which I reported to my cubicle and resumed creating shareholder value.

Whereas bloberg will not break 2:30. Not drink a post race beer because that will risk his abs and kids’ respect. Will open his laptop to bask in strava glory and edit his latest video. Monday he will report to his home office to scheme his next bs YouTube series while his wife does all the work maintaining the household.

Tbf that is her job she clearly doesn’t work an actual job

hes been a tosser since he was a youth.

to big a build to be a successful runner, now just profiteers off any run club / Puresport gig he can get his hands on. painful individual

Yep pretty much this.

He's so impressed with himself. He's one of these coaches who only coaches low level runners where you can essentially give them anything and they will improve. Yet he seems to genuinely believe he is a world class coach. Not my kind of guy at all.

What's your thoughts on Becky Briggs? I lined up alongside her at London Marathon this year as she was taking selfies in the Championship starting pen. She like Trees has a rather awkward running style where her arms and shoulder seem off.

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I like the Team Makou vids. I like the banter they have. I like the way they're filmed. They come across as very likeable guys & gals who are putting the work in with none of the BS stuff (shoes reviews, bad advice, silly training) that always gets complained about here. I think Calum is trying to do something interesting with his DistanceProject vids too and i respect that.

Only criticism is TM do appear to be hung up on this thread. I'm pretty sure only one poster here was truly critical of them a few months ago but they seem to think this thread is anti-Makou which i dont think is the case.

Have the team delivered over the track season to the best of their abilities? No. Do they claim they have? Also no.

Maintaining that house, caring for and homeschooling all those kids is way more of an actual job than what bloberg does.

Honestly at the rate some shoetubers are stacking all-out marathons with inadequate recovery a stress fracture is small potatoes. There’s a reason you don’t f*ck around with a proper recovery period after a marathon- the cardiovascular load alone is massive and it’s not particularly kind to your other organs either, regardless of how fit you are or how many miles you run. (If anything it only becomes more demanding)
i certainly don’t wish it on anyone, but I would not be surprised if these guys end up with some serious complications in the longer term and I’m not talking a bum Achilles.

Had never really formed an opinion of him until he was part of the Josh Jogs London Championship bib muling - don't think anyone seriously invested in UK running should be condoning people piggy backing into championship races. More I see of him the more I remain convinced that the first impression was correct. There's just a vibe he gives off of being a bit smarmy imo

Separably YouTube just threw the latest Bigger than Running Chicago video into my feed. Do we have thoughts on him? I've never seen anything he's done before - not interested in his super long form shoe vlogcast thing with Ben Felton and wouldn't seek him out on his own.

Don't know his previous pbs/results but jeez, he's making a lot of there being some kind of overarching moral message and honest reflection story to tell from his walk jogging a marathon. Whole section about what a great core memory it'll be for his son to have flown out to watch him run a marathon in Chicago (is there something in the water in Chicago that convinces parents their children seeing them run will be a core memory?) It all felt pretty off and contrived to me - especially when we can see (from both the video and his splits) that around the point his son sees him he's moving at walking pace. If I went out to watch someone who's main personality trait is running, only to see them walk it in I don't think that's forming a core impressive memory for me...

the photo girl for RED-S and eating disorders. Caught in the revolving cycle of stress fractures through chronic under-fuelling and over-training but has hero status with the run club chubsters and Puresport beggers as she can still win a parkrun.

Another prime scavenger on the London scene who would turn up at a school sports day egg and spoon race for a free pair of socks

So he’s running NYC three weeks after Chicago… committed to running 50 miles for charity in his last tree time… and wants to run Houston in 85 days.

I’m predicting 2026 to be a regression year for bloberg, riddled with injuries and chronic illness if he continues this way. The guy averaged less than 7 hours of sleep in this last build which is wildly dangerous for cardiac health and your immune system

Followed by the ultimate comeback in 2027 when he qualifies for the Olympics and wins dancing with the stars.

He doesn’t need more. Remember he’s in that 1% who can handle super high mileage with no injury, as he proclaimed himself

I called out Truett Hanes in his Instagram post about counting/comparing Marathon PRs on courses that drop thousands of feet.... and look at his snappy response to me! I actually did have to "stalk" and look up the elevation drop on St. George...

He also says he weighs 157lbs in that post now...which honestly is pretty close to a lot of us probably (who actually run sub 2:30 on courses that don't drop thousands and thousands of feet)....

What's happened to honest hard work and integrity in this sport?!