The Trials and Tribulations of Running YouTubers

Australia has a couple of good YouTubers in Serious Hobby Jogger and Sato Maehara. Jogoncrago ain't bad either

No one actually like Bester dude, it’s just Nick posting here and a bunch of sarcasm that may or may not be lost on the US crowd.

What direction does Mr. Floberg's channel take in 2026? It it follow the same formula, or does he branch off into ultras, trails or "hybrid running" perhaps?

I have no interest in Floberg and I honestly wish he was moved off this thread cause it’s page upon pages about him.

I'm pretty sure that Thomas just inadvertently dropped the fact that Boston banned Kofuzi for filming on the course (????) in their latest podcast (@14:50)... SO THAT's why Ko keeps saying he doesn't want to run it any more (not because he wants other people who qualify but don't make the cut off to get their chance to run). Man, such a snake-y move if true. At least Matt Choi (who is also mentioned as banned from NYC during the convo) owns the fact that he violated the rules. 🐍

Have you heard of chat GPT, brah?

Kofuzi banned from Boston? Huge if true. Anyone have an inside to the BAA to confirm?

How do people listen to this garbage?

No selfie sticks = no Kofuzi

https://www.baa.org/wp-content/uploads/docs/2024-03/Prohibited%20Items%20List.pdf

Agreed. Who would spend more than an hour listening to these rubes?

Agree! but I run high mileage, slowly, and always alone so I can get through a lot of podcasts on 1.5-1.75x speed. I pulled up Youtube when I got home to double check that what I heard was accurate during this segment. You can think of it as reality TV type listening I guess? I also do try to listen to lots of more interesting and non-running content as well :)

** I want to note that Ko has explicitly said several times that he doesn't foresee running Boston again because of the cutoff standards/ drama around fairness of influencer bibs so if he is actually in fact banned this would mean he is just straight up lying (but in a kind of hard to proof ex-lawyer type of way).

This is the first (and last) time I will listen to any of their content. Incredibly bland. As for Kofuzi, no surprises and enough has been said about him already.

I have no interest in BITR. Yet they are part of running youtube, which is what's being discussed in this thread.

Sounds like a clear case of 'deal with it'.

Anyone watch Donato? He's a really good British masters runner and he's doing NYC marathon this year. The thing I like about his channel is he keeps it real, keeps it raw, no scripts like other channels and ad libs his way through advice and anecdotes. He's a whacky character and is running NY in a Super Mario costume. I'll be sure to check out his vlog, oh yes.

Good runner. Wanker of a person as discussed earlier in thread.

Recently started watching Ollie Drieu, young lad in the UK trying to crack 20 for the 5k. Not super talented but pretty humble and actually runs his easy runs easy. The best thing is he uploads a short video about every single run and they don't start with endless vlogging about breakfast, shoes and sponsors. He goes straight into the workouts with no BS. Heard he's considering training via NSA once he breaks 20.

The only time I see him run easy is on his long run though. I saw he said on strava that he jogs to the gym and does some cycling, but doesn't actually track this (which leads me to beleive this isn't much extra mileage). He is only running 30km/week according to strava, which in my opinion isn't enough.

Personally, I think he would have broken sub-20 by now if he just increased his easy mileage and ran a bit more. He does seem like a good lad though and wants to learn.

Oh yeah I fully agree with that, his shortest path to improving is to get more easy miles in (and probably stop trying to spam vo2max workouts). At least he isn't like your average strava warrior who runs their "easy" pace at 4:50/km while failing to hold 4:00 for the 5K, which is something.

He reminds me a bit of "It's On Andy" in that he seems a nice guy who genuinely enjoys running and isn't out there shilling.

BTW Andy ran a sub 90 HM a few weeks back. The man doesn't look like he'd be fast but he puts in a shift on race day