I feel like she's done so many of this kind of video in the past few months. I generally like her, but can't help think she's being held back by having to create running content instead of actually just focusing on running.
I feel like she's done so many of this kind of video in the past few months. I generally like her, but can't help think she's being held back by having to create running content instead of actually just focusing on running.
Kind of ironic that it’s this type of content that is her meal ticket.
I feel like she's done so many of this kind of video in the past few months. I generally like her, but can't help think she's being held back by having to create running content instead of actually just focusing on running.
Kind of ironic that it’s this type of content that is her meal ticket.
In other news, nick bester has replaced the retiring kipchoge as the god of the sport that is running... may we all kneel at his crusty feet, calloused by the hours of pavement pounding only to create the cinematic wizardry that we are so frequently blessed with viewing. All hail the new god of our sport, and his recent achievement as the new 10km world record holder (a sub 24 clocking during a scorching hot 50 degree morning on the sizzling streets of London at the vitality 10k in possibly the most treacherous conditions you could ask for!). All hail the new overlord of our sport, let us all remain free from sin to one day be granted access to his special playground battersea park.
I feel like she's done so many of this kind of video in the past few months. I generally like her, but can't help think she's being held back by having to create running content instead of actually just focusing on running.
I actually try to watch her content but I'm so exhausted by this theme. We've heard this one already, Allie.
I'd say he's up against it for sub 2:30, New York not the quickest course and I think his last three marathons are 2:38/2:39/2:39 getting a bit slower each time.
Pretty sure he has done more miles this block but maybe left his best running out there a few weeks back (his sub 16 parkrun placed him 2nd V50 for UK so far this year, 8th all time!) - his training was slightly disrupted with illness recently.
He has run some solid mile reps though, much faster than he was aiming for pre workout. Very interested to see what he runs tomorrow. I think he is capable of sub 2:35
I agree and I wouldn't be surprised if he finishes around 2:40 again. I hope he can get the sub 2:30 but the recent races suggests not.
I find his marathon results a bit confusing. I feel like he would destroy me in workouts but I would finish 8 minutes up the road come race day. Maybe New York is the race where it all comes together.
In a video that was probably brought to you by Bandit, though never really disclosed (the random bandit bags on tables during lunches are a give away) about the Chicago Marathon, Kofuzi again threatens to stop traveling, even stop traveling as far as the nearby Chicago Marathon (which is like an hour from where he lives in the exurbs).
He says he's traveling too much. But then again he said that last year and said he wasn't going to travel this year. And he...increased his travel schedule. Also this video featured plotting to get Sport Tours to pay for a trip to the Cape Town Marathon. Lol.
In a video that was probably brought to you by Bandit, though never really disclosed (the random bandit bags on tables during lunches are a give away) about the Chicago Marathon, Kofuzi again threatens to stop traveling, even stop traveling as far as the nearby Chicago Marathon (which is like an hour from where he lives in the exurbs).
He says he's traveling too much. But then again he said that last year and said he wasn't going to travel this year. And he...increased his travel schedule. Also this video featured plotting to get Sport Tours to pay for a trip to the Cape Town Marathon. Lol.
I view Kofuzi in the same boat as SJD. They are getting pressured by their wives to start contributing more financially and emotionally for the family. It is unbelievable that these guys spend most of their days vlogging their 10 mile runs while most father’s have a real career to make an honest living. Companies like ASIC, and Runna will only be around for a couple of years then move on to the next influential YouTuber at the moment.
I strongly believe Floberg is on the same trajectory within the next 2-3 years.
In other news, nick bester has replaced the retiring kipchoge as the god of the sport that is running... may we all kneel at his crusty feet, calloused by the hours of pavement pounding only to create the cinematic wizardry that we are so frequently blessed with viewing. All hail the new god of our sport, and his recent achievement as the new 10km world record holder (a sub 24 clocking during a scorching hot 50 degree morning on the sizzling streets of London at the vitality 10k in possibly the most treacherous conditions you could ask for!). All hail the new overlord of our sport, let us all remain free from sin to one day be granted access to his special playground battersea park.
I used to have complete disdain for this guy and his antics but having witnessed the passion and sheer adulation from his fans in this thread I’ve begun to see him in a different light. He truly is the beacon of our sport, the glue that brings all runners together. The love and support he shows to runners of all abilities, the way he carries himself and his dedication to training and high performance are incredible to behold. Not only that, he never fails to shirk his responsibilities as a husband and father. An absolute inspiration to myself and many other middle aged gentleman. We should be teaching our sons about this man and use him as a source of inspiration for the next generation of men.
I view Kofuzi in the same boat as SJD. They are getting pressured by their wives to start contributing more financially and emotionally for the family. It is unbelievable that these guys spend most of their days vlogging their 10 mile runs while most father’s have a real career to make an honest living. Companies like ASIC, and Runna will only be around for a couple of years then move on to the next influential YouTuber at the moment.
I strongly believe Floberg is on the same trajectory within the next 2-3 years.
One thing that the content of someone like the FOD brings across is a genuine love of running and some self reflection. You get the feeling that the Big Man would release videos every week even with 50 viewers or if YouTube stopped paying. The more you think about it the more it appears that all the YouTube channels like this are non US based.
There seems to be a cynicism around the "major" US channels, Floberg, BITR and Kofuzi especially. Instead of wanting to provide insight and help to runners they quickly realised how to make a buck and rip people off.
The Run Testers and BITR are very similar channels, get sent free gear and sent to races yet The Run Testers seems a lot more likely to provide a truly independent review (and do so less smugly)
There is something about Floberg and Kofuzi especially who seem to have a very small following (50,000 viewers worldwide is incredibly small really isn't it) but have somehow disappeared up their own ass thinking they're a running God.
There are many types of YouTubers. Some want to entertain such as Crown My Run and MARM, some want to inform and help such as FOD and 2 Running Brooms (who need more plaudits) but then there are the BITR, Floberg and Kofuzi people of this world who want to make money from YOU and want you to watch them. They don't want to inform, don't want to help, add nothing to the running community and don't care about entertainment, they want to grift, steal and leech off the sport and it's naive newbies.
There's one part re. eating disorder that she hasn't really covered, and it's probably the most important - early intervention...
She (understandably) doesn't want to place blame anywhere. But at some point, if this is a conversation about helping others, it has to include the fact that there was a twelve-year-old girl not being helped. I know eating disorders are sneaky, I've been there, but that's six years of a girl struggling and none of her family, coaches, high school staff ever got her into a medical appointment?
In this video she says she wasn't even diagnosed with an eating disorder until she was at college. It is SO difficult once you're a legal adult for a medical team to get someone help if they're resistant (and after six years of an entrenched eating disorder, they likely will be). Add on the stress of leaving home, and more 'freedom' to engage in your disordered behaviour, it's doomed.
I find his marathon results a bit confusing. I feel like he would destroy me in workouts but I would finish 8 minutes up the road come race day. Maybe New York is the race where it all comes together.
He does have a habit of getting ill when travelling for races, and I felt he picked a shoe that held him back in some races (VF3). Think he looks fine for both this time, so I am more optimistic today.
Exactly the same here, my workouts are nowhere near his paces but I'm 2:29-2:31 for all the marathons I've done since supershoes arrived
The win adds something extra to the vid he dropped the other day where he’s driving a car, then cuts to a slow mo of two chiselled, and ultimately completely mid pack hybrids jogging down the road.
Couldn’t ask for a more perfect satire of the inverse relationship between self-aggrandising content and actual athletic ability.
I really did enjoy seeing all these bare chested, roided, oversized truck driving, cap wearing tossers get put to the sword by a bloke in a button up shirt, bucket hat who lives with his mum and eats plain rice.
I find his marathon results a bit confusing. I feel like he would destroy me in workouts but I would finish 8 minutes up the road come race day. Maybe New York is the race where it all comes together.
FOD has same profile, his marathon time doesn't really do justice to his times for 5k/10k/HM.
Sure he could knock some time off on a quicker marathon course, but he's barely outside the HM time you need to apply for Championship start at London (before the recent rule change) than the qualifying mark for marathon. But 71:30 HM is far harder than 2:38 marathon. I'd expect him to be close to 2:30 based on other results.
Maybe notable that the HM time was in Fast-R 3 and he felt pretty beaten up post race, did Abingdon in Adios Pro 3, which I think he commented have less pop.
Even Serious Hobby Jogger, 32:20ish 10k and just under 2:36 marathon, bit of a gap between those times.
Not to criticise any of these runners, I know others with exactly the same kind of results. Their training looks very decent to me. I'd just be miles off guessing what marathon time they'd be shooting for looking at their other results.
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