The Trials and Tribulations of Running YouTubers

Regarding Phily's MRI fiasco: when injuries are very minor, even the most skilled radiologists come up with different diagnosis. MRIs can be very hard to read, a lot of it is more art than science. The anger is not justified.

Also, a runner's knee that presents itself weeks after the fall sounds more like overtraining than a delayed reaction. She couldn't handle the last training block and somehow decided to up the mileage and the intensity...

She should be angry at her coach and herself, not on differing conclusions from a frivolous MRI scan.

I think Chicago was actually the perfect set up for her though.......If she wants to PB she needs 2 things......she needs a pacer (Maybe she couldn't find one in Chicago?) And she needs to run in a group......those are why she PB'd in Berlin. She's a good runner but it's pretty obvious she still struggles with the mental side of things.

It amazes me why people who have clear mental issues such as Bowden and Parkes put themselves out there in the public space. We know these people read the good and bad comments, and probably come on here as well. Such a strange way to scrape, and I mean scrape, a living

Agreed, I think there’s a lot of pressure on the British running scene for the very top runners at the minute and very few are able to live up to the pressure. Of the real crème de la creme, the only ones I think are consistently handling that pressure and thriving are

Phil Sesseman, Ben Felton, Emile Cairess and Mahamed Mahamed. Need to concentrate our energy and resources on getting them competing at the world stage.

I reckon they earn way more that you think -- they are deffo not scraping a living. Beats working a middle management job.

and also! "only" a bone bruise. Bone bruising in a load sensitive area is ALSO a don't-put-weight-on-it injury, just shorter time frames. Don't want to risk it progressing in severity until it becomes a stress fracture. Sure you'd run a marathon on it, that's sensible.

Back on the Bester anti-hype train. Abandons his long run workout this weekend because he's too ill (if you're too ill to complete a workout imo you're too ill to start a workout... so red mark for him there), the workout itself is different to the one his coach wants him to do (red mark again), says he needs a rest day the next day but decides to run a bunch of sub 7 miles because he 'couldn't resist' (red mark to my mind - we know he was running to/from the gym when he had his injury enforced "total rest" from running a while back, so I think he may genuinely have an addiction issue here), does an impromptu 20+ mile workout run averaging sub 6 miles (red flag - surely no serious coach says less than 48 hours after you've abandoned a workout, ended up running on a full rest day in-between yeah go and rip a 20 mile workout now...),.

Slightly controversial take here re: being ill - but if he's too ill to do his job but still wants to take his family out places wear a mask my guy. You still siphon money from the sycophants even when you're too ill to do any running - but some people aren't lucky enough to have that option. Don't think you have to go full covid truther to say that maybe something we should have taken from the past few years is wearing a mask in busy public places if we're ill and avoiding going about spreading where possible. Especially if your nose is larger than normal so (hobby physiologist view here) acting a super spreader in and of itself anyway. Not a looks comment - just saying that surely his massive nostrils are spreading more germs around. Similar to Philly and Dan flying across the Atlantic with Covid - wear a mask and/or delay your flight my brothers in Christ.