Yes there needs to be more talk about BITR, which is the worst of the worst in terms of runfluencers right now.
They are supposedly leading a sub 4 pace group at nyc. The only one who could reliably do this is Meg, but she will be going much faster, so it’s up to Robbe and Thomas apparently to lead the group. Best of luck!
They are starting their first “dirt division” podcast. The leader of this seems to be Taylor, who dnf’ed leadville this year and quit his teaching job in order to shill product. Go bitr!
He did not cheat; he’s misleading viewers blaming his performance on his watch giving inaccurate splits. His Strava data proves he was manually splitting which he said he wasn’t doing in the video.
Please can we give it a rest talking about Flo-prat, ruining the thread saturating it about one pleb, at least mix it up.
it’s hard to stop when the guy is such a egotistical douchebag. Someone should send this thread to him as a Strava comment. I’m sure blowberg would delete it but I’d love for him to read the last 15 pages here to see how much of a bafoon people think he is. Might help him realize his bubble of bro adult men who idolize him isn’t the full reality.
I really want to know if floberg is oblivious to how much of a pathetic con he is and how delusional he acts with running and just won’t own it… or if he truly doesn’t actually realize it. Not sure which is scarier. It takes a special kind of person to produce the content he makes and post what he does. He must have some level of a personality disorder. Dude continues to steal thousands of dollars from runners for fake coaching and doesn’t even bat an eye. Such a scumbag.
The thing is Truett Hanes' behavior with this downhill stuff is contagious. YouTuber Griff Duncan refuses to acknowledge that his 3:05 marathon as massively downhill, even implicitly. He has that time listed as the basis for his paces on Strava. Bro, your PR is not 3:05. That's what you can run a marathon in DOWNHILL. Grinds my gears so much.
Griff-ter was also one of the clowns crapping on Jeremy Miller for merely pointing out that St. George was downhill in a top comment. These hybrid guys do stick together, I guess.
relevant, Michael Ottesen addressing how massively downhill and fast St. George is in his latest video:
Yes there needs to be more talk about BITR, which is the worst of the worst in terms of runfluencers right now.
They are supposedly leading a sub 4 pace group at nyc. The only one who could reliably do this is Meg, but she will be going much faster, so it’s up to Robbe and Thomas apparently to lead the group. Best of luck!
They are starting their first “dirt division” podcast. The leader of this seems to be Taylor, who dnf’ed leadville this year and quit his teaching job in order to shill product. Go bitr!
Godspeed to all the innocent hobbyjoggers lining up for their first sub 4.
Seriously though, are NYC really that lax with pacers? My local RDs wouldn’t touch those guys with a cattle prod and they have a way smaller pool of applicants. Also just seems kind of stupid to pick someone who’s going to be more focused on getting footage the whole time, but anything for the influencers I guess.
Does he read this thread? or just has more than 2 brain cells to rub together?
Yeah, this got recommended to me today and immediately went on the 'do not recommend this channel' list for the 'I accidentally ran a PB' title.
There are some clickbait channels that are grandfathered in for me to hate watch, like Phily's, but my day has only so many hours and believe it or not, hate watching shoetubers isn't all I do.
I don't want to keep piling on Floberg but one thing I'm curious about is his coach , Jeff Cunningham. By some account and what I heard from his podcast, he's a quite a knowledgable coach who has been coaching at various level from cross country team to elite guy like Haftu Knight. So why does his training plan for Floberg seems questionable and didn't really help Floberg? Is it a matter of Floberg not listening to his coach and like to do more flashy stuff like 100-mile week or 800m reps in race week? ( Early on his No Time series, his coach thinks he should increased max mileage to 90 mpw but Floberg wants 100) If so, a coaching change would probably not help him.
Floberg, if you read this, get rid of your "coaching" biz and listen to your coach!
I don't want to keep piling on Floberg but one thing I'm curious about is his coach , Jeff Cunningham. By some account and what I heard from his podcast, he's a quite a knowledgable coach who has been coaching at various level from cross country team to elite guy like Haftu Knight. So why does his training plan for Floberg seems questionable and didn't really help Floberg? Is it a matter of Floberg not listening to his coach and like to do more flashy stuff like 100-mile week or 800m reps in race week? ( Early on his No Time series, his coach thinks he should increased max mileage to 90 mpw but Floberg wants 100) If so, a coaching change would probably not help him.
Floberg, if you read this, get rid of your "coaching" biz and listen to your coach!
Cunningham can write a training plan that is acceptable and gas you up with his Texas accent, but by all accounts he coaches way, way too many people. He might not have even picked up on the little things that Floberg was doing like adding 10-15mpw in volume, constantly exceeding prescribed splits, and "misreading" workouts to make them double threshold sessions. He's also not there in person to keep Floberg from puking up BPN Mango gels every other session. When you get close to what your potential is and the easy newbie gains stop, those little things matter and both of them were probably trying to be a little too aggressive this training cycle. Cunningham wanted killer workouts and moderate mileage, Floberg wanted to exceed those killer workouts and run high mileage, and the end result was being slightly overcooked and underperforming on race day.
Don't ask me why I was still receiving it or reading it, but I finally had to unsubscribe from Stephen Scullion's newsletter after the latest one. He is constantly moaning about how his old tempo pace feels hard these days (no, really? After training less than before?), but today was extra hard because he had to work from 8:30am to 1pm cleaning out his stockroom and he didn't really feel like doing tempo. Poor lad. Truly heartbroken for him. A 2:09 guy having to perform 3 hours of labour is an injustice.
Don't ask me why I was still receiving it or reading it, but I finally had to unsubscribe from Stephen Scullion's newsletter after the latest one. He is constantly moaning about how his old tempo pace feels hard these days (no, really? After training less than before?), but today was extra hard because he had to work from 8:30am to 1pm cleaning out his stockroom and he didn't really feel like doing tempo. Poor lad. Truly heartbroken for him. A 2:09 guy having to perform 3 hours of labour is an injustice.
He's ran 2:09? Wow, you think it's all he would talk about
Yes there needs to be more talk about BITR, which is the worst of the worst in terms of runfluencers right now.
They are supposedly leading a sub 4 pace group at nyc. The only one who could reliably do this is Meg, but she will be going much faster, so it’s up to Robbe and Thomas apparently to lead the group. Best of luck!
They are starting their first “dirt division” podcast. The leader of this seems to be Taylor, who dnf’ed leadville this year and quit his teaching job in order to shill product. Go bitr!
IIRC they did this before and Robbe blew up.
I agree that they are some of the worst and I don't know they are so popular. Robbe and Thomas aren't fast (but Thomas manages to to be rude to slower runners) and Megan has the personality of dry toast.
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