The Trials and Tribulations of Running YouTubers

Not as wild as Simply the Worst™ bagging on NSM back around pages 450-470, he was vicious.

I watched the video and have determined that he is that dumb. His reasoning is that he did 30 miles a week in 2024 and 60 miles a week in 2025, so he's projecting that by running 100 miles a week (while also doing hard workouts multiple times per week) he's going to become a 2:15:xx guy.

He's also figuring he will gain some time by losing more weight. He is already 154 lbs and 11% body fat. Unclear how much more he can lose.

But yeah my takeaway is he absolutely thinks he can do this. I am going to enjoy watching him fail, because there is no way he will be able to in my opinion.

Since I posted about Truett on here, I've gotten multiple reels from people within running that have been disappointingly positive on his chances. Everett Smulders (formerly Wesfly Athletics now trying to clean up the image for online high school coaching) and Zach Bitters stood out to me. I know Zach is a Rogan orbiter like Hanes so maybe it makes more sense that he handled Truett with kid gloves and said he could do it but William Everett Smulders should know better. He should know that Truett doesn't have the sauce to OTQ and that he is on the sauce but this was all hand-waved away.

The funniest part was the comments under Everett's reel because the top comment was Sean Brosnan putting it bluntly with "no chance!" The rest of the comments were sadly saying brain-dead takes like "he can do 1000 pushups he can do anything!' or my favorite "why would anyone hate on someone reaching for an ambitious goal! This should inspire you unless you're a sad loser in mom's basement!" I used the word mongoloid earlier but I really think these guys are walking around with room temperature IQs. I'm not sure what's inspiring about a nepo-baby fitness influencer doping and downhilling his way to sell crappy products and whore out his personal brand. Also suddenly these meathead gorillas are morally upstanding citizens who wouldn't dare criticize someone else's goals, even though 99.99999% of the fitness social media landscape is just hating and reacting negatively to other creators. Also it's always rich to see someone say you shouldn't hate on someone only to hate on the haters with high school level name calling. It's a little concerning these people can vote, reproduce, and consume oxygen with the rest of us!

Yes the winner is an entitled, arrogant bellend who put the safety of other runners at risk.

Say what you want about Floberg (it's mostly true), but at least it seems he actually gave money to charity, where SJD simply changed ideas and pocketed his 'charity percentage' instead.

I know who I think is the bigger scumbag there, and I certainly don't miss his videos.

RTJ struggling with 'Crippling back pain' since Valencia as per his latest Strava post. Really hope he gets himself sorted by proper medical professionals , i love his work effort and want to see him succeed but it looks like he could end up doing himself some serious long term damage if he isn't careful.

Ok I despise the guy too, but why are we criticizing him for setting a lofty goal and trying to achieve it? It just reels of jealousy imo. Let's criticize him for lying about his PED use and exclusively running downhill courses

Yeah he was doing up to 140ish miles a week, and ramped up very quickly whenever he came back to it (something like 80/100/110/120 miles each week, having been crocked for a while)

As you say most days he ran long and quite fast, say MP +30-60secs/mile. Hardly ever saw him run slower than 7:00/mile. Some weeks he did Saturday track session (1k reps?) but his long runs were relentless.

I thought his training was a bit mad, but it worked for him, until his body broke down. And he's got a 2:24 marathon in his pocket, which is impressive for a latecomer to the sport.

RTJ does a lot more of his mileage at very easy effort, his training cycle looks more balanced and sustainable, it's just insanely huge volume. Even racing every week isn't that crazy, Ron Hill often did two races in a weekend at his peak. Maybe not burying himself on both days, but still good hard efforts.

New Series.

Runners From the Past Who Would Have Been Excellent On YouTube. Part 1: Ron Hill.

Steve Ovett & Seb Coe (modern day equivalents = SIRPOC & Bester)

Sirpoc has no haters, he's more like Chris Thompson. 100% approval ratings, because they don't have any narcissistic traits.

Steve Jones is someone I'd love to hear more from, last I read he was in Boulder coaching part time and working as decorator/home renovator but still jogging now and then.

The thing is, he isn't actually setting this goal for himself, though.

I'm willing to eat my words if he achieves it (in which case I'd like to have the number of his pharmacist, please), but in general there is simply a 0% chance he's delusional enough to believe this sheit himself.

He's doing it because the sycophants following him will eat it up, and it will generate more money for him. That's what the criticism is based on, imo.

Regarding Jeans Guy, is 2:15 really that unrealistic if he goes full EPO/Blood Doping? I mean look at the guy, why would we think he would stick to steroids only?

tough contest between him and Alfie Manthorpe for the dullest sounding voice in the game

Believe in the run finally put out a somewhat interesting podcast trashing Sage for trashing Truett. Meg is officially team Truett!

Because he's most likely already doing that to get to his current level.

The Sunday plodcast did a great interview with him relatively recently, highly recommend. Says he did about 100 miles a week of tempo in plimpsoles haha

The Believe in the Runs Podcast reaching a new low. They spent a half an hour claiming that neither they or their new BFF Truett Hanes, are narcissists, spent another half an hour trashing Sage Canaday as a narcissist because he implied (correctly in my opinion) that Truett Hanes is using performance enhancing drugs, then said it didn't matter if Truett used PEDs because you still have to put in the work to run that time and it didn't matter if he took PEDs anyway because it doesn't harm others (should be take this as an admission that Thomas uses roids to run 3:50 in the marathon?), then claimed that they knew that Truett wasn't on PEDs because he had lost a bunch of weight recently! Ever heard of the PED called Ozempic guys? Anyway, definitely worth a listen! And then after that they talked about people who paid $60 to join their Strava group for 20 minutes. Just an epic, epic episode of The Drop.

Wow did they really? I don't even know these people and I don't listen to podcasts, but can someone summarize what I'm being "trashed" about exactly?

That I wrote on Instagram Threads and tweeted out that: "most people don't realize how big of a chasm 2:29 to sub 2:16:00 is?!"

Or that I commented on Truett's IG once (months ago) about saying how it's misleading to list your "marathon time PR" without disclosing that the course was a massive net downhill drop of thousands and thousands of feet?!

Finally (for the record) I never said anything directly about Truett being on PEDs (or not). I wouldn't say that about anyone without knowing 100%. I probably said something down the lines that "a lot of 'hybrid athlete types' and influencer-runners might not be clean and use PEDs" though. I would never directly accuse anyone without solid evidence because I don't know anything for sure....

Do I have grounds for a defamation case here though?