The Trials and Tribulations of Running YouTubers

His aerobic base from cycling and swimming must be absolutely insane

Can see Dan Nash in the background of the women's feed. Looks like 2:14ish. Conditions aren't as bad as Berlin or London, but not ideal when you've been training in cold South Wales. Probably regretting not having any heat protocol.

Seems like Jake DNF. No spilt from 30km onwards

Jonny Mellor dropping a PB too I think in 2:08:45.

Finish-line meltdown tear fest incoming from bester

Unfortunately you're correct, just had a look and he went to 100 a couple of times.

Just checked, this is the second fastest British marathon ever -- with Mo being the fastest. He's just pushed Emile Cairess (2:06:46) into 3rd!

Blowing up at 35k is one thing, but getting the pacing so wrong that you blow up at the halfway point is another.

I love RTJ and think he is one of the most charismatic and genuine shoetubers, but taking pacing advice from kaizen and injury advice from chatgpt at his level is laughable. The man needs a proper coach and team around him to make that next jump.

He's always been a runner first, and always been a better runner than triathlete.

It's way less competitive in triathlon so it made sense from a commercial and Olympic point of view.

But make no doubts about it, running 2:06 is a higher performance level than being world/oly champ in triathlon.

Seeing other users using the heat conditions to defend Jake DNF is hilarious considering he has been doing heat training all summer in Japan

Terrible conditions out there today, your messiah wouldn't even have managed 2:45. 2:27 is the best anyone could have done.

He went off at 2:12 so hardly crazy, there's no point him going all the way to Valencia to run 2:14 again. So not sure what else he could do with the pacing just didn't have it today for whatever reason.

At least he showed up unlike a certain messiah.

Looks like Hawkins was another 30km victim unfortunately

Gibbons death marching it home

Sesemann ran a 6 sec PB today, which moved him up one spot on the all time rankings to 4th above Steve Jones

[His previous PB was only set 7 weeks ago in Amsterdam, not bad recovery skills]

Jonesy was an amazing runner for 25.2 mile marathons.

Nothing makes me want to buy Adidas from Start Fitness more than seeing Cole having a walk around Valencia.

He's now 5th as Yee jumped to 2nd

So predictable really. I actually like him to but kept getting shot down in this thread for point out that he may not be going about his training and injury management the right way.