Maybe nick could take these guys on, or make them part of a stable he leads? I think people naturally gravitate towards his charismatic nature and would provide a good opportunity to bring some others up to his level of popularity.
Excellent suggestion. He could lead the NWO of running. Yee could be his Scott Hall and sirpoc as Kevin Nash.
You'll struggle to get this one upvoted, as funny as some of the posts are. Sirpoc is universally liked, the book universally respected and is a best seller on Amazon already, trains as a hobby jogger and beat nick by a couple of Km's at London in his first ever marathon and he's in his 40s. Nick put about a minute into him, after he had ran about 300km in about 4 months post London. For absolute real, if I was Nick I would be actually looking to get this guy to teach me two things:
How to make use of the amount of training time he has better, and secondly, how to actually approach racing.
It was interesting watching Alex Yee's videos in the Valencia build up and him noting that post London one of the key things they determined he needed to do was to improve his 5k speed, and did a big block focusing on that so he'd then have the speed reserve for the marathon. Something I think RTJ could learn from.
I didn’t know about that, I’ll have to go back and have a look and learn from it. I ran 2:17 back in October averaging around 170km a week and I decided that I was going to simply up my mileage further for the next 6 months in the hope that it’ll get me to sub 2:15 in April. Maybe I’m making the very same mistakes that RTJ potentially made and could benefit more from Alex Yee’s approach, probably not in this block now but it’s definitely one to think about in my next block. Thanks for the heads up
when are all these youtubers vids of valencia dropping? some proper horror shows produced by cole, RTJ and bester - are there any others who did it? the welsh jogger appears to have bottled it and not turned up. cant think of any other with any profile who were due to run
It was interesting watching Alex Yee's videos in the Valencia build up and him noting that post London one of the key things they determined he needed to do was to improve his 5k speed, and did a big block focusing on that so he'd then have the speed reserve for the marathon. Something I think RTJ could learn from.
I didn’t know about that, I’ll have to go back and have a look and learn from it. I ran 2:17 back in October averaging around 170km a week and I decided that I was going to simply up my mileage further for the next 6 months in the hope that it’ll get me to sub 2:15 in April. Maybe I’m making the very same mistakes that RTJ potentially made and could benefit more from Alex Yee’s approach, probably not in this block now but it’s definitely one to think about in my next block. Thanks for the heads up
Stop boasting mate. Nobody cares about your 2:17 if you ain’t on YouTube
when are all these youtubers vids of valencia dropping? some proper horror shows produced by cole, RTJ and bester - are there any others who did it? the welsh jogger appears to have bottled it and not turned up. cant think of any other with any profile who were due to run
hoping Bester produces more than his regular useless POV vids and these characters actually review where it went badly wrong as although they all have appointed coaches, (in the case of Bester anyway), they appear to know best and just do what they want. the results dont lie... Cole is broken, RTJ clearly has underlying health issues from his ridiculous volume and Bester is just a clown
The welsh jogger would’ve died in the heat, so it’s probably for the best he bottled it.
What has happened to Yaseen Abdalla? I just checked his channel and he's deleted/archived most of his videos from the past year. All that's left is a bunch of member-only ramblings & a political rant?
Did something happen where his NCAA stuff from the past year got flagged?
You're right, he's clearly not OK. I just checked his most recent video and he's screaming in his car about not wanting to sign a contract + doing his double threshold at 6pm + 11:30pm...
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What I learnt today is that Mary McCarthy has a VO2 Max of 80 - which I suspect is higher than Alex Yee’s. 2:05 inbound?
Mary's content really captures the essence of Instagram running slop.
It is entirely focused on the aesthetic of someone "living their best life", running with besties, dabbling in Hyrox, and finding the best matcha tea in London!
Of course, the occasional cameo from that smug, slightly creepy Runna failed PE teacher turned self-appointed running coach. He's clearly using his pretend AI app to get closer to women!
What I learnt today is that Mary McCarthy has a VO2 Max of 80 - which I suspect is higher than Alex Yee’s. 2:05 inbound?
Mary's content really captures the essence of Instagram running slop.
It is entirely focused on the aesthetic of someone "living their best life", running with besties, dabbling in Hyrox, and finding the best matcha tea in London!
Of course, the occasional cameo from that smug, slightly creepy Runna failed PE teacher turned self-appointed running coach. He's clearly using his pretend AI app to get closer to women!
It's all very performative, look how busy we are with all these collabs and brand events I'm so wiped out doing all this work runvent might have to wait a day.
Very unfair on unnamed athlete Pen Barker. When you've got a verified 2:34 marathon pb that is definitely legitimate the women gravitate to you. Nothing that can be done about that.
That has jogged a youtuber showdown question for me though - who do you think leans on their PB the most as a hook, and who's the most out of order doing it?
I think Ben Parker, Ben Parkes and Scullion must mention theirs the most? Scullion's a super legit time, but old (although I think he's probably still capable of a decent marathon time if the stars align); Parkes is a legit time but also old and unrepeatable; Parker's my rotter of the lot nomination - not a real PB and constantly pushes it, don't think I've ever seen or heard him do anything without shamelessly mentioning it despite him definitely knowing it's not legit.
Mary's content really captures the essence of Instagram running slop.
It is entirely focused on the aesthetic of someone "living their best life", running with besties, dabbling in Hyrox, and finding the best matcha tea in London!
Of course, the occasional cameo from that smug, slightly creepy Runna failed PE teacher turned self-appointed running coach. He's clearly using his pretend AI app to get closer to women!
It's all very performative, look how busy we are with all these collabs and brand events I'm so wiped out doing all this work runvent might have to wait a day.
Very unfair on unnamed athlete Pen Barker. When you've got a verified 2:34 marathon pb that is definitely legitimate the women gravitate to you. Nothing that can be done about that.
That has jogged a youtuber showdown question for me though - who do you think leans on their PB the most as a hook, and who's the most out of order doing it?
I think Ben Parker, Ben Parkes and Scullion must mention theirs the most? Scullion's a super legit time, but old (although I think he's probably still capable of a decent marathon time if the stars align); Parkes is a legit time but also old and unrepeatable; Parker's my rotter of the lot nomination - not a real PB and constantly pushes it, don't think I've ever seen or heard him do anything without shamelessly mentioning it despite him definitely knowing it's not legit.
Can we throw sub-2:20 Bester in that mix too, who always likes to remind us of it at the start of each video, despite it being an anomaly amongst his other marathon times.
It's all very performative, look how busy we are with all these collabs and brand events I'm so wiped out doing all this work runvent might have to wait a day.
Very unfair on unnamed athlete Pen Barker. When you've got a verified 2:34 marathon pb that is definitely legitimate the women gravitate to you. Nothing that can be done about that.
That has jogged a youtuber showdown question for me though - who do you think leans on their PB the most as a hook, and who's the most out of order doing it?
I think Ben Parker, Ben Parkes and Scullion must mention theirs the most? Scullion's a super legit time, but old (although I think he's probably still capable of a decent marathon time if the stars align); Parkes is a legit time but also old and unrepeatable; Parker's my rotter of the lot nomination - not a real PB and constantly pushes it, don't think I've ever seen or heard him do anything without shamelessly mentioning it despite him definitely knowing it's not legit.
Can we throw sub-2:20 Bester in that mix too, who always likes to remind us of it at the start of each video, despite it being an anomaly amongst his other marathon times.
Bester literally stopped for 10 minutes on sunday to help RTJ, 2:20 wouldn't have looked nearly as anomalous if he hadn't looked out for his fellow elite runner and dropped the 2:17 we all know hes capable of. Let's not forget he crashed his private plane into his airbnb either. I think 2:15 on a good day.
It's all very performative, look how busy we are with all these collabs and brand events I'm so wiped out doing all this work runvent might have to wait a day.
Very unfair on unnamed athlete Pen Barker. When you've got a verified 2:34 marathon pb that is definitely legitimate the women gravitate to you. Nothing that can be done about that.
That has jogged a youtuber showdown question for me though - who do you think leans on their PB the most as a hook, and who's the most out of order doing it?
I think Ben Parker, Ben Parkes and Scullion must mention theirs the most? Scullion's a super legit time, but old (although I think he's probably still capable of a decent marathon time if the stars align); Parkes is a legit time but also old and unrepeatable; Parker's my rotter of the lot nomination - not a real PB and constantly pushes it, don't think I've ever seen or heard him do anything without shamelessly mentioning it despite him definitely knowing it's not legit.
Can we throw sub-2:20 Bester in that mix too, who always likes to remind us of it at the start of each video, despite it being an anomaly amongst his other marathon times.
In his defence he's run 2:20:xx twice, 2:21 once, and 2:22 twice. Made a jump in his 10k pb this year - but I think his content creation and scheduling mess up the way he approaches racing (definitely 5k-HM, but also marathons really - no way was the Ethiopia 10k just before Valencia a useful trip for eg.)
I think he just really needs to lean in to a good coach - his instincts have got him close a few times but his reliance on the same workouts limits him imo. This block he ignored coach's advice on longer steady state runs in favour of his 3*10k...
Anyway - annoying guy a lot of the time, decent sub-elite runner who's earned the right, but could bang on about it less.
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