The Trials and Tribulations of Running YouTubers

Her father posted a video of his daughter essentially blaming school dance rehearsal as to why she developed a quad strain, not the fact that she was averaging 85+ miles per week as a 13 year old.

To your point about parenting, this is reckless parenting behavior on display in a public forum that could inspire other crazy dad’s to do similar antics with their children. No wonder the oldest daughter left the family. It’s fine if “coach” MK wants to raise his children to run 85 mile per week before puberty but please do not post videos that could inspire other crazy parents. Do better.

It's already reckless parenting to post so many photos and videos of kids on big, public social media accounts, let along do that while pushing them to run that much mileage.

If the kids genuinely want to do it, fine, but to be honest, I can't imagine a 13 year old really wants to run 85 mpw without being told by her parents that she needs to do it. Why can't she just run track/XC with her school and do a safe amount of training?

Yaseen, you are probably the problem if you transferred that many times, not the coaches. His video is kind of scary, I hope he is okay. What's the end goal here?

Did his oldest (Haven) really leave the family? She used to be in a lot of videos but then it just stopped. Never really explained why, thought she just didn’t want to be in them

i always wondered where the mom is in all of this. Did she pass?

The whole story around CIM is odd. They waited until the just day to decide Evan want running.

Cole ran with MK, even though he wasn't registered. Did he use Evan's bib or just bandit? Lack of splits for Evan suggests he just ran without a number.

So odd.

The problem is: She knows, if there is just a little chance, you have to go harder. A lot of very succesful pros burned their body in the 10-15 years pro career.

After the end, mid 30s and so on they of course pay for it, hip/back/knee surgeries and most of them stop completly with their sport. Tennisplayers, Ballplayers, Sprinter, you name it.

Thats the deal and thats the BIG difference to semi pros or great amateurs.

i hate her as much as the next person but she did actually earn the elite london spot by running 2:25 at berlin. thankfully, many other ladies have now runner faster and she has no chance of making a GB team in the near future but she did "earn" that tragic lonely plod around the streets of london

i wouldnt be surprised if we see Philly pivot her channel in the near future and focus more on building her coaching business. She'll play the "pro runner" card as her valid pathway to coaching "new" runners, we'll see more stretching/drills and intro videos to intervals/threshold/hills all in easily digestable yet in typical PB "quirky" video style, to set her apart from everyone else.

She'll hoover up new runners, sell them the merch and have great success stories to share (as, surprise surprise, add some structure and you can knock a minute off that 30 minute parkrun PB), all the while being "relatable" and her "authentic" self.

Got to remember, she's not just supporting herself. Her partner also needs the content career to continue as his livlihood also depends on it. Berlin was over a year ago now, and despite a recent injury, she hasn't had a good race since Berlin. Unless she's planning some incredible comeback journey, I dont think she can push the "pro runner currently injured" narrative for much longer.

Kinda conflicted here - I hear what he's talking about on the coach front (I've had coach experiences like that and my personality is nothing like Yaseen). But i cant help but think about how the absolute best athletes (across most any sport really) are cool calm and confident. Let's see if it works for him

Her main issue this year is that she simply hasn't raced enough. As per power of 10, she has raced only 4 times (including London Marathon). That is a joke, even taking into account the injury (which is now dragging on well past when it should).

What annoys me the most is the money that gets ploughed into her by ON and other brands. I know it's because she has a good base of followers and so her platform is considerably wider than most other runners at her level. But it's such a chronic waste of funds.

You're likely correct though and she will transition into some sort of coach for the couch to 5km brigade.

She still thinks shes going to the Olympics... Its kinda sad if she hasn't fully come to terms with how far away from that she is

Come on, she knows that its not possible. Its more like the content plan for 2026 and 2027.

The real problem is: What will she do after 2027?

Videotitles at the end of 2027:

"My olympic dream is over." "Was it worth it?" "I gave everthing." "Time to let got." "Pro runner bla bla." "The real reason xyz."

high performance yank zoomeroid cringe slop

"On the path to greatness you will find it's a mental battle and you're your own greatest enemy. On the bright side if you keep going, you'll win. On the other hand, it will cost your life."

Was that Joyce or Tennyson? I can never remember.

Does not seem like it's covered yet - RTJ mentioned in his post-Valencia livestream, that he seems to have an agreement with the NDSoft and Suzuki corporate Japanese teams to hop into sessions/workouts if he is in town/going to live in the area. AlthoughHowever, he can't join the teams officially/employed by those companies, since the corporate teams have used up their foreigner quota on their existing squad.

Notably, NDSoft has Alexander Mutiso on their lineup.

Probably a significant step forward in his Japanese running journey to be able to link up with corporate teams more frequently (which he had much trouble in the earlier stages of his channel), and giving freedom to explore the culture as a whole.

100% she knows it's not possible; she's clearly dragging out the idea to fit the story she wants to spin.

As it stands, there are 12 active women with a better PB than her. She's not shown she can get anywhere near her PB, without a dedicated pacer and perfect conditions.

The standard is getting way better now, also. Back in the day, sub-elites like Alyson Dixon made the Olympics. This is no longer the case.

She was a great judge on Britains Got Talent to be fair.

You absolutely cannot call Aly Dixon a sub elite or compare Phily to her.

Aly Dixon was 18th at World Champs, 6th at Commonwealth Games, 28th at the Olympics, 19th at World Half.

Still British 50k record holder, think she may have been the World 50k record holder for a period.

That's elite by any definition.

She has a marathon PB of 2.29 - significantly slower than Phily. Perhaps sub-elite is harsh, though. None the less, she would not be making the Olympics given the recent boom in running