The Trials and Tribulations of Running YouTubers

Agree on this. It's car crash viewing. How can anyone running that mileage struggle to break 20 mins at parkrun, or hit 4:30 pace on long runs?

Jake in his latest video is announcing that he's looking to PB in both Tokyo and London, 8 weeks apart. He says he wants to go for a sub 2:12 in Tokyo, then a 2:09 in London. I'm not saying it's not at all feasible and there were some elites successfully doing the World Cup and another autumn marathon last year, but with all of his other marathons before these two I'm pretty skeptical.

It annoys me how they cant just commit to one thing, and one thing only rather than chasing a very little likely scenario. Running both is probably the best plan when it comes to youtube etc, but given his last year it seems extremely unlikely.

He might do it, but why not choose the risk free alternative? The chance of yet nother injury or sickness is so much higher.

Yet another injury? He's probably the only runner on the planet who somehow never gets injured (despite running more than literally everyone else). I think as always, he'll be just fine.

Nick Bester really is gargantuan. Gargantuan in size, gargantuan in heart, a gargantuan amount of fans, gargantuan toughness in will power and will power.

His gargantuan frame really does put him at a disadvantage against much skinnier, short guys like Fenton and Cole but somehow he competes still.

It’s great to see that for the most part this forum also has gargantuan love for him. Great video at his training camp this week.

Would love to see him and Donato run a marathon together and perhaps both appear on come dine with me together. Oh the scenes

I thought he was just a wanker

Does Anya have some level of dwarfism or achondroplasia?

yeah but this Fenton looks like he would pass the shoetuber Felton in a back alley and snarl at him to get his wallet (which is probably only full of Pro Direct coupon codes and a sachet of bicarb).

Very cool video by the running channel:

Running channel Vs Runner app

So incredibly impressed that Mr Parker only lost to an Olympian by 1 second. Very impressive. 1 second over 5km is essentially nothing.

One of the coolest vids I've seen, no snark. The finish was wild.

The back runner trying to catch up to the lead runner at the very end reminded me of the scene in Heat (1995) where DeNiro's character was running to catch up to the gang who took the moneybag...

And some of their other runners are quick--Jess was pledging to run 19: low by the end of February!

In this vid Sarah tries to beat her Garmin prediction of 20:49. Can she do it? Great vid as well.

I love RTJ to bits but those super hard workouts are too much. He should just focus on mileage and occasional medium-hard workouts imho.

This part was even weirder. He does that and then what… like is he cleaning that up later? Is wifey upset at him like “David, are you going to pick up the mac n cheese you threw on the floor for that bit?”

very strange

God why are letsrun users so miserable all the time, apparently if you aren’t top 10 in a pursuit you shouldn’t even bother doing it. I’m convinced these gremlins think that all we should be doing is slaving away at a 9-5 for our entire lives because we don’t have the perfect genetics for the things we’re passionate about.

To me it looks like there is something up with her spine -- when she runs her pelvis is in an anterior tilt but it looks like there is some kind of movement restriction in her low spine. She's very rigid and then around that just spins her legs like a wind-up toy. Not sure what's going on there, she never mentions it, and oddly it doesn't seem to slow her down.

If I ever hear one of you shout "FEENTOOON!! Oh, Jesus Christ!!!" on one of his race videos, I'm going to personally buy you a beer.

I mean I love watching the guy but he has a bad habit of hitting the medical tent on his goal events. True for Valencia there was a probable illness in the bag but he needs to figure that one out to get the 2:10.