Wejo Debate me on Flotrack Pro

Goodonebro wrote:

http://www.flotrack.org/video/652703-FloHouse-reaction-to-Leo-Manzano-silver-medal-Most-Memorable-Moment-Best-of-2012

Watch as a group of humans turn into a raving band of screaming apes. Disgusting!

Best savored without sound. Like the monolith scene from "2001."

How old is this Mark From Flotrack guy? He sounds incredibly juvenile.

This is the best thing for running since...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxVtawYGlLc

When is this happening?

Just a fan wrote:

If you haven't. Seen Mark's video where he 'challenges' Wejo, you should go watch it. I've lost all respect for Mark and Flocast. This can be nothing more than an attempt to generate hits on flocast.

Pathetic behavior or his part.

http://www.flotrack.org/speaker/118-Mark-Flotrack/video/684648-CALLING-OUT-LetsRun?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

I have no interest in Flotrack or whatever they do, but I had to watch that video. The tall guy in the brown t-shirt needs to grow up, and then get some real clothes, or at least wash that t-shirt.

The short guy looks like he suffers from fetal alcohol syndrome so I'm going to cut him some slack since he's clearly over achieving.

laces out wrote:

All the trolls on letsrun are going to be jumping around tonight like a scene out of LOTR now that their master-orc has been challenged to battle by an elvish-clan.

The 2013 POY came early

"I feel like I am taking crazy pills"-Mark Flo

I think we found our answer.

Why is it that at 1:34 in the video, Mark's friend in the video (the fetal alcohol syndrome guy) is turning around in a circle?

the door on the way out, yah? wrote:

Great! Maybe that means you'll spend less time here starting threads that have nothing to do about running, while cluttering up the board?

WHAT A JOKE! No one talks about running here.

Longpaw Shorey wrote:

Maybe they could do a little porn on the side? Take some of the sting from the $20. Specialty fetishes, I'd suggest.

SFH may be interested.

Very bad if Mark Florian is really behaving in this manner. In business, 'failure' is the norm. You fail and shutdown gracefully paying off all creditors etc, fail and sell for pennies, fail and Chapter 11, fail fire your son, and fail again, until you make it big. Then you bank the money, and start all over, failing again and again. But you NEVER EVER whine about it since it tarnishes your rep. That's the American Way.

The market is much thinner for these meets than the DL but the costs to put it on are not hugely lower. Like 'orphan drugs' unless a high price is paid the service cannot be provided at a profit -- do you want to subsidize them directly? [or, is you do not seem to understand economics, you should stand on the sidelines while they debate]

might be wejo wrote:

"Editor’s note: For a point of reference individual Diamond League meets could be watched this past year for $1.99 on Universalsports.com, yet it will cost $20 to watch a high school/collegiate meet. Parents thousands of miles away might be willing to pay it but track and field fans generally won’t."

The above pretty much covers it. Wouldn't be much of a debate.

Impossible Is Nothin wrote:

Looky Here wrote:

For some reason I just can't stop laughing at this.

Same here. dying.

I bet you two would fit right in at the next Dungeons and Dragons expo.

No subsidy. Flotrack should stop making fools of themselves and close the doors. We all have facebook pages and tweet, tweet, tweet, and NCAA T&F schools have their own TV channels. It's over for Flotrack and Runnerspace. At least Dyestat, Trackshark, blah blah blah, went down w/o a wimper.

Flotrack was great for a period of time. Really focused on the Work out Wednesdays which were generally very well done. The interviews varied on who was conducting them and I never really watched the races live as collegiate and high school meets aren't a major interest (I am 40).

I actually thought for a time that if they added a solid messageboard and really engaged the pros they had good relationships with that they would surpass Letsrun and essentially put them out of business.

Then as another poster mentioned, I started going to their site less & less. The News segment was really juvenile and obviously aimed at high school and young college kids (which is fine) and the workouts stopped having the draw they once did.

For my demographic the novelty of video coverage wore off with it being style more than substance. The substance is here. Yes there should be more features by Rojo and Wejo and yes the layout etc could use work but in a way it's always been this way. The guys do a good job with it and the messageboard for the most part does it's job. Monitoring this might be the most difficult piece but overall as a business model the brothers Johnson abviously have something that generates a reasonably good level of income.

I think in the Youtube age where content is so readily available and free their Flotrack Pro setup won't work. Heck if you want to see a PPV boxing match go on Youtube 15 minutes after it finishes and it will be there for a time. Alot gets streamed for free live in real time. Their method will not be sustaiable. For a larger perspective look at Facebook and Twitter- critical mass to advertisers, free to users.

If Flotrack can actually get people to pay that price, then more power to them.

With all that said, I can't get any audio on the video of Mark calling our LetsRun. What does he say? The video plays, but no sound. Great quality.

I totally agree with Southie. I'm a couple years younger but Flotrack has definitely gone downhill over the last two years. For sheer enthusiasm it's fun to see Ryan go nuts sometimes (and nothing beats his call of Solinsky's 10000m record) and the Workout Wednesdays used to be great and Selby's interviews are usually superb but if anything good shows up on Flotrack these days Letsrun lets me know about it.

I'd love to see the Brojos drop a little money on a site redesign (we all know it sucks) and make the message board a little less juvenile, but maybe that's part of its charm.

Well done, I laughed. Except don't they drink Boulevardiers?

I can't believe that all you ladies have your panties knots over this flotrack pro deal. If you don't like what they are doing, then don't go pro. The fact that you all are complaining about having to pay means that you do truly value their videos and want to watch them. If you are bitter over their price, don't buy. The market will always "shake itself out" and if enough people don't want to pay their price, then naturally they will go out of business.