I agree. He was sensible enough not to go out at 2:09:30 pace. I thought he had 2:12 in him, but obviously not. I think he was trending in the right direction, but at one point in his training he overcooked it and then his form started to decline...
Shut it Ball Knower. Remind me of your marathon PB? Crazy how people take a dislike to someone because their family have a nice house, jesus get a life.
Stephen Mc Auley is not a youtuber but he was interviewed in depth on The Marathon Podcast last month, gone from 3:19 to 2:15 in two years after another PB in Valencia today.
His training is unorthodox/old school, he's a bit like Patrick Martin (youtuber 2:24 V40 but generally injured now)
Loads of long runs almost every day, mostly around MP+90sec/mile and two big marathon sessions a week.
I know RTJ mocks people who never run slower than 7:00/mile, no way they can do their quality sessions properly etc, but this guy is getting results.
The thing that cracks me up about RTJ is that the scholarship is some sort of "cultural exchange" thing, and he has to be by far the most successful person in the history of the program in terms of spreading parts of Japanese culture to a wider audience.
He’s doing a great job at spreading the culture. Off the back of that video I’m doing two things, ordering the ingredients for Japanese Natto, and finding his sister on Instagram.
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 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.
Idk, Jake doesn’t strike me as the type to DNF because he’s slightly off the pace- he’s certainly gutted out some tough races during the training block, so it would be a weird call to suddenly pull the plug on the day unless there’s something pretty gnarly going on. (Not to mention rather bad for marketing)
pretty sad to see the man go down finally, but I’ll be curious to see the recap and hope he bounces back quickly- I don’t think he’s ever really bombed an A race before, and IMO that’s where a lot of shoetubers start to lose the plot a bit.
Let’s not compare these times in pogo shoes to Steve Jones… he was essentially wearing plimsolls. The history of the sport has been undermined by these stupid shoes.
also, Alex effing Yee ladies and gentlemen. What a performance, his YouTube series has been awesome. Did it in the “slow” new balance shoes too heh
Kofuzi finished at 3:11
Ehh, his best days are probably behind him. He was probably aiming for somewhere around a 3 hour marathon based off his training paces
no issues with him personally, I think he’s fine. But he peaked at 90+ mpw just to run a 3:10? Put the actual time aside but that’s nowhere near his PB
Let’s not compare these times in pogo shoes to Steve Jones… he was essentially wearing plimsolls. The history of the sport has been undermined by these stupid shoes.
You’re not wrong, but show what’s in your race day lineup. Better see some racing flats :)
Alex Yee will probably be the first to tell you how much the shoes help, just like Mantz did after he broke the American record. But then I go back to the thought: if it’s really just the shoes, then everyone should be doing it
My tongue in cheek joke was based on “shoetubers” calling the NB shoes on the slow side compared to the other super shoes. Just find it amusing for folks on the internet to say a shoe isn’t fast enough whilst running 7 minute pace in the marathon
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