The Trials and Tribulations of Running YouTubers

I don't get the speed-dating reference.

I saw a vid of them in Target and she seemed rude to him.

She must have the patience of a saint having to deal with Parker. His Ironman finish line videos make me want to jump in a bath holding a toaster that’s plugged on. Oh that and seeing McCarthy post a reel today with the caption “He’ll never date a girl with a VO2 max as good as mine” Just chuck me in front of a lorry. I’m done with these dumbfluencers. I’d rather go to war than sit in a room with Culling, Fenton, Goddard, Bester and McCarthy.

And before anyone forgets. Joshjogs is only running Barcelona this year because he is banned from London marathon and his good for age entry was voided after bib muling last year to get into the championships pen. Was backed up and supported by Becky Briggs and Tommy Trees in this. Before you think either of those are credible. It’s all a mess.

Another complete idiot not sure how anyone would pay to be coached by him, also a pretty mid runner

Still bitter that London Marathon didn’t make an example of this bloke. No backbone.

Openly bib muelling into the Champ pen, without a champ time and used to generate interest in his coaching services.

At this stage, are all runfluencers money grabbing, entitled pricks?

I have noticed a bunch of these influencer types targeting this marathon. It's one of the most favorable Boston qualifiers because it doesn't incur any time penalty relative to standard courses.

Griff Duncan was already in here under an alt arguing that it's comparable to Chicago. In fact, it drops around 1000 feet net over the marathon distance and the only real challenge is a 200 foot climb around miles 5-6 which comes after a ripper of an opener with 400 feet of loss in 4 miles.

Speaking of Griff, it does look like he's in shape to go sub 3 on this course. The obnoxious thing is he's not in shape to go sub 3 on a legitimate course. He's going to act like he accomplished his goal when he hasn't, he just moved the goal posts by use of gravity.

tbf allie had a really good 70:10 ish at houston, she was in really good shape regardless (before illness)

Re JoshJogs - How the f did On keep sponsoring him? I’m sure they knew of his actions. Baffles me how this greasy haired, injury prone, average runner secured a deal with them. Would love to know if we asked Briggs or Trees their thoughts. Briggs isn’t as innocent as people think.

Had a look at blogsnark and it is entirely about who has posted against ice versus those who have not or only made stories rather than grid posts and should thus be unfollowed.
This is definitely more about the running, bad training, hypocrisy audacity and shilling

I’d never heard of this guy but just checked his page, he’s not that big a following for an influencer, why on earth are ON sponsoring him?

How below standard was he for the elite pen? What a joke.

He had a pb of circa 2:50. He just rocked up thinking he belonged in the champo pen. He’s still never publicly admitted it or come clean. Little snake. He doesn’t belong in the running community. Go be a dork at hyrox

I thought my "threshold pace was 7:00 a mile?" Oh wait, is somebody getting scared because they realized I'm hitting all the pace I need to (and more in my workouts), and that I held "threshold" for over 2 hours with jog rest for 40% of the run and, moving the goal posts themselves? I must be a genetic anomaly for holding T that long, they should study me in a lab ! And shocker, the workouts are all on flat surfaces, with 18mph winds?!?!

I thought I would "not even run a 1:30 half" and "drop out of Mesa," despite having already done this on Eugene. Despite having also run LA for my first marathon. Mesa was the largest available race on the docket in a semi-comparable window to CIM when I had to defer.

Can't wait to see what you say after I do it at Indianapolis next. "the weather was too optimal, doesn't count!" Sheesh, get a grip. It seems your name is in here the most, spreading hate and misinformation because you're too dense to even to the slightest bit of research on people you are talking about.

I truly feel bad for you. Keep watching what others are doing because you're too scared to post any of your own results. I am very much looking forward to seeing whatever seething post you write after I do, indeed, achieve my goal.

Griff

Imagine needing a 1000 foot downhill marathon to hobby jog a 2:59:xx and then acting triumphant about it on YouTube and on running forums...

It's still just feels like a slightly different flavor of gossip here. I can't really judge seeing as how I'm here eating this sh*t up.

Fwiw they also dump on bad training, ie "Stress fracture-gate"

Saitama Marathon 2026 seems cancelled (i.e RTJ's Marathon Long Run simulation), wouldn't be surprised if he is doing the required effort separately somewhere now..

Yeah, no doubt Allie O was in sick shape and ripping sick workouts. It’s just feels so disingenuous to me when all these runfluencers spend 30+ minutes on a race recap and “how I PR’d, what to learn from my training” and not mention that the course is one with an elevation profile most people can’t even find in their state!

FWIW I find it equally annoying when people do this bs on strava. The youtubers just cast a wider net. Whenever I’ve run something like this I put it in the first sentence that it’s downhill

Kofuzi turning his Strava to private a few weeks before his big 100k is sus! Hopefully someone here follows him so we can make sure he runs the entire 62.14 mile distance!!!

I don't get the whole deal between stories vs. grid posts, why does it matter? (I don't follow insta enough to know why it's a big deal, although I know stories are more common).

I don't mind Griff's content and I wish him the best. Seeing some of his injury-related content last year helped me get through some of my own problems. That being said, he is the perfect example of new runners skipping the boring foundational stuff in the chase for marathon clout.

So many of my peers in their late 20s and early 30s view 5ks and 10ks as stepping stones with the holy grail being the mara, and surprise surprise, many of them run very mediocre times and struggle to hit the big goals they set for themselves. Hitting milestones in shorter races is a big part of building durability and instilling confidence in yourself as a runner, but I guess a fast 5k or 10k won't get you the Instagram likes.

I think Griff would benefit greatly from a full year of just focusing on the 5k and 10k. His 3:05 mara was on a downhill course, and he has yet to run times in the HM, 10K, and 5k that suggest a sub-3 is possible.