Winter of Cope wrote:
Am I mistaken or is Floberg doing very little speedwork in a series titled 'winter of speed'? Might as well just call it winter.
He's apparently speed-dating his wife. Does that count?
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Caint76 wrote:
Sham parker wrote:
Bit late to this - but the OFUMIU post from 13th January calls out the most common trait of being a chip time offender is “Having a two week Runna trial code” (hilarious in itself)
Ben Parker replies thanking them for their work, and that they will educate their ambassadors. The absolute irony of this will be a joy to watch when he’s called out for his disingenuous 2:34 marathon claims for all to see! Get those reports in.
He commented so they now like him I would imagine so doubt they’ll call him out. That’s just someone who wants to be an influencer hiding behind that page, so they have the personality and external validation cravings of an influencer so will ass kiss like one too in comments.
His bio on the Runna website has changed though - and keeps being taken down/edited to remove the 2:34, also gone from his Instagram bio
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Ben Connor has set Cole 81 miles soo far this week...
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allie o with another "sick/injured so going to have to drop from my race" video
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I want to take a moment to applaud Holly Archer today for her real and raw post about influencers. Take a look if you haven’t watched it. Basically calling out the awful content from Mary McCarthy. Has a stress fracture but is out there gunning the bike and the swims. Irresponsible and misleading her followers. She’s toxic for the sport. Thumbs up if you agree. Comment if you disagree.
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OnlyPbsWhenPaced wrote:
I want to take a moment to applaud Holly Archer today for her real and raw post about influencers. Take a look if you haven’t watched it. Basically calling out the awful content from Mary McCarthy. Has a stress fracture but is out there gunning the bike and the swims. Irresponsible and misleading her followers. She’s toxic for the sport. Thumbs up if you agree. Comment if you disagree.
Weirdly, this seems to be the latest trend for less popular influencers. Jump on the bag wagon of dissing unnamed stress fractured big time influencers. Holly has some legit results, and is also leaning on Instagram runfluencer, but I wouldn't class her as one. Just a good post to quote to point out the other runfluencer BS
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Let’s not forget Holly has run for team GB. Her post won’t be popular with the likes of Culling, Parker, McCarthy, Briggs and Goddard but someone has to. You’re blind if you think McCarthy isn’t taking advantage of her power. How can we get her to address this? One of us stand in BP with a sign until her and Warnock stop? May even get a free gel!!
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SK wrote:
allie o with another "sick/injured so going to have to drop from my race" video
Another classic Ostrander "give me your attention" video.... she is so! toxic, like her bf....
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coachcole wrote:
Ben Connor has set Cole 81 miles soo far this week...
Wednesday still not finished. Still time to round it up to 90.
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OnlyPbsWhenPaced wrote:
I want to take a moment to applaud Holly Archer today for her real and raw post about influencers. Take a look if you haven’t watched it. Basically calling out the awful content from Mary McCarthy. Has a stress fracture but is out there gunning the bike and the swims. Irresponsible and misleading her followers. She’s toxic for the sport. Thumbs up if you agree. Comment if you disagree.
I’m glad I saw this cause skipped it earlier assuming it would be more of the same defending them I’ve seen all week. A note though- Hugo fry commenting defending Mary mc Carthy and reposting memes about her “fracture gate” then has the audacity to comment on this video as if pro this too. Man grow a spine, you can’t kiss everyone ass if they’re contradicting each other.
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Caint76 wrote:
OnlyPbsWhenPaced wrote:
I want to take a moment to applaud Holly Archer today for her real and raw post about influencers. Take a look if you haven’t watched it. Basically calling out the awful content from Mary McCarthy. Has a stress fracture but is out there gunning the bike and the swims. Irresponsible and misleading her followers. She’s toxic for the sport. Thumbs up if you agree. Comment if you disagree.
I’m glad I saw this cause skipped it earlier assuming it would be more of the same defending them I’ve seen all week. A note though- Hugo fry commenting defending Mary mc Carthy and reposting memes about her “fracture gate” then has the audacity to comment on this video as if pro this too. Man grow a spine, you can’t kiss everyone ass if they’re contradicting each other.
I don't follow Holly but am aware of her and occasionally see her posts. I'm glad I sought this one out. It was a very succinct and honest breakdown of why influencers are dangerous and who they target. It didn't call anyone out specifically and it wasn't mean, just telling people to be aware and asking the influencers to do better!
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I agree generally. But it would be nice if they could just call the person out rather than being vague.
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funnystuff wrote:
Caint76 wrote:
He commented so they now like him I would imagine so doubt they’ll call him out. That’s just someone who wants to be an influencer hiding behind that page, so they have the personality and external validation cravings of an influencer so will ass kiss like one too in comments.
His bio on the Runna website has changed though - and keeps being taken down/edited to remove the 2:34, also gone from his Instagram bio
He was called out on the Runna subreddit on his 2:34 and looks like he made an account specifically to answer the criticism.
Says he trained very hard and was the fittest he's ever been when he ran his **unofficial** PB of 2:34. Which is interesting because I don't think he's ever said it was official or unofficial - just his PB... I wonder if that's the guidance that they'll be putting out to their runfluencers and ambassadors?
He also admits that they have two kinds of coaches at Runna: actual coaches and pr/media event coaches. Seeming to imply that Anya isn't a coach coach, but more of a press appearance coach. Feels disingenuous to be calling them coaches - just say ambassador or business development or something. Given the whole PB not PB thing is essentially about misleadingly titling things to gain an advantage you know if wrong that seems a bold admission to come out with.
How much of the average person's Runna subscriptions goes towards these people who aren't really doing a job, just being influencers in more stable roles. And how many people understand that's what the deal is? I'd call it very poor form on Runna's part
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halfagree wrote:
funnystuff wrote:
His bio on the Runna website has changed though - and keeps being taken down/edited to remove the 2:34, also gone from his Instagram bio
He was called out on the Runna subreddit on his 2:34 and looks like he made an account specifically to answer the criticism.
Says he trained very hard and was the fittest he's ever been when he ran his **unofficial** PB of 2:34. Which is interesting because I don't think he's ever said it was official or unofficial - just his PB... I wonder if that's the guidance that they'll be putting out to their runfluencers and ambassadors?
He also admits that they have two kinds of coaches at Runna: actual coaches and pr/media event coaches. Seeming to imply that Anya isn't a coach coach, but more of a press appearance coach. Feels disingenuous to be calling them coaches - just say ambassador or business development or something. Given the whole PB not PB thing is essentially about misleadingly titling things to gain an advantage you know if wrong that seems a bold admission to come out with.
How much of the average person's Runna subscriptions goes towards these people who aren't really doing a job, just being influencers in more stable roles. And how many people understand that's what the deal is? I'd call it very poor form on Runna's part
Removed from his bio on insta but doesn’t stop him and his runna team being disingenuous and dishonest by using his ‘PB’ as part of their social media marketing for Runna.. see exhibit A, there are many many more of these - ‘what my 2:34 marathon boss thinks off…’
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Josh_jogs_to_the_bank wrote:
halfagree wrote:
He was called out on the Runna subreddit on his 2:34 and looks like he made an account specifically to answer the criticism.
Says he trained very hard and was the fittest he's ever been when he ran his **unofficial** PB of 2:34. Which is interesting because I don't think he's ever said it was official or unofficial - just his PB... I wonder if that's the guidance that they'll be putting out to their runfluencers and ambassadors?
He also admits that they have two kinds of coaches at Runna: actual coaches and pr/media event coaches. Seeming to imply that Anya isn't a coach coach, but more of a press appearance coach. Feels disingenuous to be calling them coaches - just say ambassador or business development or something. Given the whole PB not PB thing is essentially about misleadingly titling things to gain an advantage you know if wrong that seems a bold admission to come out with.
How much of the average person's Runna subscriptions goes towards these people who aren't really doing a job, just being influencers in more stable roles. And how many people understand that's what the deal is? I'd call it very poor form on Runna's part
Removed from his bio on insta but doesn’t stop him and his runna team being disingenuous and dishonest by using his ‘PB’ as part of their social media marketing for Runna.. see exhibit A, there are many many more of these - ‘what my 2:34 marathon boss thinks off…’
OMTIU must be in cahoots with Ben/Runna as they are happy to call out some minor influencer who has taken their Strava time opposed to the official chip time but don’t want to apply the same rules to the mainstream… even though these guys are effectively using fraudulent information to build a business on. It’s not on.
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I see Chairman Andy, aka the fod runner, has been dropped / blacklisted by two running shoe brands due to unfavourable reviews of what they sent him. My money is on brooks and saucony, it will be interesting to see how he gets on with these Chinese shoes.
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betamode wrote:
I see Chairman Andy, aka the fod runner, has been dropped / blacklisted by two running shoe brands due to unfavourable reviews of what they sent him. My money is on brooks and saucony, it will be interesting to see how he gets on with these Chinese shoes.
Where did this come from?
If true, I have massive respect for FOD runner.
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WhoopsieAtwWork wrote:
betamode wrote:
I see Chairman Andy, aka the fod runner, has been dropped / blacklisted by two running shoe brands due to unfavourable reviews of what they sent him. My money is on brooks and saucony, it will be interesting to see how he gets on with these Chinese shoes.
Where did this come from?
If true, I have massive respect for FOD runner.
His latest video, I agree with you he's one of the best and most honest YouTubers.
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betamode wrote:
I see Chairman Andy, aka the fod runner, has been dropped / blacklisted by two running shoe brands due to unfavourable reviews of what they sent him. My money is on brooks and saucony, it will be interesting to see how he gets on with these Chinese shoes.
Name and shame, Andy!
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Caint76 wrote:
OnlyPbsWhenPaced wrote:
I want to take a moment to applaud Holly Archer today for her real and raw post about influencers. Take a look if you haven’t watched it. Basically calling out the awful content from Mary McCarthy. Has a stress fracture but is out there gunning the bike and the swims. Irresponsible and misleading her followers. She’s toxic for the sport. Thumbs up if you agree. Comment if you disagree.
I’m glad I saw this cause skipped it earlier assuming it would be more of the same defending them I’ve seen all week. A note though- Hugo fry commenting defending Mary mc Carthy and reposting memes about her “fracture gate” then has the audacity to comment on this video as if pro this too. Man grow a spine, you can’t kiss everyone ass if they’re contradicting each other.
Yes, I notices that too. And now I've been recommended at least another two runfluenzas posts saying pretty much the same things as Holly posted, and one of them being the Culling!
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