The Trials and Tribulations of Running YouTubers

OMG just watched Flobergs video and the easter eggs 2:28 was such a clever touch. Goat running youtuber in my books

Wow, the training of this dude is a car crash. Ran a fast downhill marathon, runs about 80k a week in build up to Chicago and starts marathon at 2:38 pace, gets to halfway in 1:18, ends up finishing in 2:52.

"Truly life changing experience"

This is the Floberg core audience. Mr Will Conway is the typical Floberg bro. Can't train, can't pace, hasn't a clue

You can see him waiting for sirpoc at the finish line, just have to give it a minute or two. What a mic drop moment.

Why are his half tights so loose? I’ve never seen something like this before.

Flo needs to stop filling his body with BPN and find a new fueling strategy. Obviously making his stomach pissed.

Yeah I clocked that too.

He also made sure to show the results of the race at the end and showed the finishers right up to SirPoc (no further below that) just to show them both on it.

Savage from Bester. What a beast.

"It was an honour to present the medal to you..." What the **** on these people on? He's just a gobby springbok.

I think the watch thing might actually be legit. I don’t have a Coros but when you put these watches in a workout mode or interval mode like he did, it’ll change what pops up when you hit the lap button.

You can see he has a 10:00 split at one point, which looks like he forgot to manual split and the interval was a 10:00 interval, so it auto split then. If it’s a time interval like that, it makes no sense for the pop-up to show time — you’d already know you just ran 10:00 — so it was probably showing distance. Or sometimes they’ll show what the next step in the workout is.

So he’d hit the lap button at a mile marker and it’d show 1.01mi or whatever, not the lap time. He’d know his GPS is a bit off but he wouldn’t know by how much.

It was my first time running Chicago and everyone said GPS is bad for the first 3-4mi but the inaccuracy this year actually extended far beyond the first few miles. So he may have started trusting his GPS pace after mile 4 and gotten the wrong idea.

Who here watches the videos of ‘Light It Up’ ?

He started using the NSA approach… at least he says he does, but then seems to be incredibly indisciplined about following it (which seems silly as the main point of NSA is that it only works if you follow it with discipline). and unsurprisingly keeps getting injured. Blames it on not wearing insoles or something random, rather than the training but not convinced…

He had said he still likes making the parkrun videos and channel needs to be interesting, so occasionally will need to not follow the training method to the letter. Feel like you might as well just do a more orthodox training method if you are only partially following NSA.

He will just randomly run a non target half marathon race well above sub threshold or parkrun each week and not stick to sub-t in the slightest.

Kind of a channel you just have to watch in horror knowing yet another injury is inevitable. He’s back running after yet another lay off now and is already talking about running a sub 3 marathon at Brighton.

Run The Planet is another bizarre one…

Keeps on talking about sub 3 marathon and setting off at that pace in every marathon he does, only to completely blow up and not even go sub 3:30. Yet can’t even do a sub 40, 10k or sub 20, 5k. Whilst barely going sub 90 in the half. Has anyone ever gone sub 3 Mara with those times?!

Talk about trying to run before you can walk. Somebody needs to tell him his goal is unrealistic currently. Needs a coach or one of the YouTube dons like FOD, Grose, Broom to take him aside and tell him he’s deluding himself and to take things one step at a time. He seems like a harmless character and a nice enough bloke but jeez dude, be realistic.

LOL I saw this too after digging through his Strava. Floberg clearly can't coach. Sets his PR on a downhill marathon (2:45) back in May and then thinks "I can go sub 2:40 pace at Chicago"???? In both marathons he has no pace discipline. Comes out the gate the first 3-4 miles running in the 5:30s like whaaaat. I bet Floberg never told him hey man you might want to start out the first 5k more conservative or at least have a conversation about a realistic goal marathon pace. Maybe perhaps running a 2:44 pace? A real coach would. His strava recap is classic. Flew too close to the sun. What a massive blow up. What is with these people that idolize him.

THIS

Part of me expects Floberg to secretly think he's going sub 2:30 in NY. I can imagine him running on that uncalibrated $4k treadmill, watching his own YouTube videos on his screen thinking about running 2:30 and laughing to himself about how he knows more about running that all of us and he can't wait to log on after the race and see the carnage.

Run the Planet is a fascinating watch, and it's hard to turn away from his obsession with 800 reps, marathon-length workouts and micronutrition experimentation that never manages to steer him away from the inevitable cramping that's plagued almost every marathon he's ran.

As for advice, his videos, in particular his outrageous training montages, tend to attract comments that try to impart some wisdom, but it never sticks. Even the Brooms have tried to talk sense into him but his replies are always along the same lines - "I'm trying something unorthodox, it might seem crazy but I think it's right for me, we'll see *disarming emoji*".

Very nice guy, relentlessly positive, and is not burdened with the sense of failure or reflection that afflicts most runners who miss their targets by country miles. You won't find a race Vlog where he finishes without a big sh*t-eating grin and a *woop*.

Yeah I think this is it. He’s massively deluded. But he’s happy. Or at least appears to be, so fair play.

I mean, what carnage? I’m not rooting against him, it’s just baffling and frustrating watching someone put this much time and energy into running, only to come up short over and over for obvious, fixable reasons. If Floberg can run 2:29 in NYC, power to the man, it’ll hopefully make for a better video than the usual “I missed my goal but the real goal was the friends I made along the way”. I’d actually kind of like to see what Floberg looks like achieving a goal for once.

Genuinely bothers me our sport is turning into dudes like this.

Even if Floberg met his goal he would then insist in the recap that he was really in 2:26 shape.