The Trials and Tribulations of Running YouTubers

Old. Untalented. Unable to truly commit to anything, let alone a proper training plan.

Floberg really complaining about three hours of sleep the night before a fun run marathon? I remember talking to an Olympic silver medalist who said he couldn’t get a wink of sleep before his final. What an excuse.

This is exactly what seperates the pro’s from the youtube amateurs.

my stomach is still churning from the race but this did not help the situation 🥴

He just loves human interactions ❤️

Weren't there any porta potties on the course ...?

Arguably the GOAT YouTuber, Casey Neistat, did NYC Marathon yesterday. Last year he did 2:57:48 and he wanted to do break that by 1 second this year this year. He did 2:57:41, so I guess that’s technically a fail :)

Few bits of Ben is Running's Valencia half video irked me. First and foremost is that personally I don't enjoy having his sister/gf's running on the channel. If I want to watch an almost identical lineup of women running similar times to those two there's a glut of influencers I can look to, I don't come to your channel for that content. It's very on trend that she's become a Runna influencer having failed to reach her A goal in a near perfect race set up for her, with a private pacer on a near perfect course with all this gifted and sponsored support.

Then the concept of the video - going to Valencia so Ben can help pace her to a PB, and the talk about Colchester being too hilly for her earlier in the year to run quick enough. Is the pacer feature on the Coros watches that you're both conveniently showing a few times in the vid not good enough that you need a pacer to come out with you?

Then the hilly Colchester debacle - like yeah it's a slightly hilly course - a bit hillier than the big half but it's not a fell race by any stretch. At the point you're running a 2hr 10 half the problem isn't that you've picked a course with 50ft too much elevation for you, it's that you can definitely get waaaay fitter. You're in your mid 20s, just train a bit more/a bit harder. If you 'need' to fly to a foreign half to get one flat enough to PB as a 2hr+ half runner honestly what's the point? To me it's almost embarrassing. C'mon get fit enough that you aren't taking walking breaks in your PB attempts before you worry about choosing the fast foreign courses.

Then the HR thing about her average being 190 - again I get there's potentially a sponsorship/financial aspect to not calling out that data from the Coros. But do they seriously believe that her average HR for a 2:04 half marathon was 190? And that they've never previously had any indication that her CV system is some sort of one in a million freakishly high running one? No serious person could believe that her HR was 190 for over 2 hours, especially given that we know she was taking walking breaks. Maybe an opportunity to educate the viewers (who are going to be less well versed if they're following for a 2hr hm runner vs someone following for a 66 minute guy) on issues with optical wrist sensing during a race. I remember a reel from a different runner who essentially torpedoed his whole marathon because his wrist sensor was telling him the same sort of thing for the first 5k.

^ this is in my top 10 worst English/British slang

that and 6-7

god forbid a girl has a slightly differing view to you on how they want to discuss youtubers on the youtubers thread.

I don't think my being autistic removes my right to participate in the thread as I'd like to?

It's a light hearted video of a guy doing a fun thing with his sister who is by no means a serious runner. Honestly a bit unhinged if it bothered you that much, there are far more egregious videos all over my recommendations.

Yeah fine, but is the same not true of this thread? It's varying degrees of nonsense through semi serious discussion of videos people post online - people will chose to participate in different ways, you don't need to agree to or engage with them all.

I'd argue that someone travelling internationally to run, creates their own running content, and who is now an ambassador for a coaching company can't really be 'by no means a serious runner'.

Even ignoring the rest of it if you don't like it, the HR point is actually I think fairly serious - and goes to the heart of a lot of the issues that come up in this thread about the shoetube industry. They can't call out the obviously silly data because they're being in part funded by Coros, then you have other people reacting to their own obviously nonsense data as if it's legit and tanking their races. Other people don't have the benefit of gifted travel to races, and brand deals/sponsorship so throwing away a marathon attempt because their watch says their HR is 190 is more serious. And I do think it's a point worth making, and discussing. (No different to points made continuously through the thread about how the financial incentives of the industry shape the way content is made and how high quality said content is).

And did that in regular Brooks Ghosts.

what a sad, pathetic old man

BUT - It's actually a nice surprise to see most of them with bibs that represent the correct waves for their "abilities" - is NYRR finally tiring of them and not giving special influencer slots?

They gave Track Club Babe, who ran a 4:33 marathon, a 20 minute headstart on the field.

I haven’t watch Ben is Running for a long time but it’s his channel, he can post whatever the hell he wants. If it bothered you that much, why did you sit and watch it all the way until the end instead of skipping?!

There’s so much content/media/distractions available these days, why waste time hatewatching something you have no interest in?

I've not said that he can't or shouldn't post what he likes? Just stated that I prefer videos that focus on his running rather than his gf/sister running.

Wouldn't say I'm wasting time hatewatching, overall I enjoy watching his content. I enjoyed this video for the most part. Just wanted to raise two points from the video (race selection discussion, and the Coros watch issues) in a thread discussing shoetubing. I don't think there's much more analysis to the what's and why's than that.

If we can't be critical of content being posted this whole thread is just a constant stream of 'yeah but you're not actually allowed to question or comment on the videos, just skip things you dislike,' which kind of goes against the whole purpose. I don't dislike any of it as such, one can disagree with (some of) the choices people make and their reasoning, and discuss it without disliking the person or what they're doing on the whole.

Not sure if this is meant as a dig at Casey, but he's a different category all together than the usual YouTube running suspects.

His video last year from NYC is legitimately great. It's what happens when you have a real filmmaker running a YouTube channel, and not a wedding photography/videography guy.