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.
I've basically done what you've described and PB'd in all but one marathon. I don't think focusing on shorter distances is completely necessary as long as your training is intelligent and consistent. With that said, it may be different for 3 hour+ marathoners. There are a few different ways to approach training but ultimately, it isn't that complicated a sport to achieve 90-95% of your talent.
Global Runner sounding quite bullish about attempting sub 70 half marathon in Vancouver today. Just checked course profile, elevation drop of ~200 feet, although it's mainly in a two mile section near the start, then overall flat after that.
To be honest, it's not that different to London marathon which has similar drop in first few km, then mostly flat. Think Edinburgh half/full has a bigger drop near the start as well, so it's not like it's just the Americans chasing downhill PBs.
Global Runner sounding quite bullish about attempting sub 70 half marathon in Vancouver today. Just checked course profile, elevation drop of ~200 feet, although it's mainly in a two mile section near the start, then overall flat after that.
To be honest, it's not that different to London marathon which has similar drop in first few km, then mostly flat. Think Edinburgh half/full has a bigger drop near the start as well, so it's not like it's just the Americans chasing downhill PBs.
Good luck to him; he's got a lot of talent. Is it just me, though, but does anyone find him a bit suspect? He does huge volume and has a fair bit of muscle mass. I'd speculate he's on TRT.
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!!!
On is paying Kofuzi to run that 100k. Can’t have any mishaps. Like that time Nike paid him to run Chicago, he blew up at mile 20 and walked it in. The Nike money dried up real quick after that.
I was hoping it was about Archer. That body of hers is unreal
Many of these influencers look and act like children. Having a user name "running daddy" and looking or thinking about them this way is deeply disturbing.
I do wonder if the likes of Fashion Jogger have an audience consisting entirely of Running Daddys.
Welcome to Brighton where the thought of a straight male finding a THIRTY THREE year old woman attractive is deeply disturbing to the wettest people in the world.
Global Runner sounding quite bullish about attempting sub 70 half marathon in Vancouver today. Just checked course profile, elevation drop of ~200 feet, although it's mainly in a two mile section near the start, then overall flat after that.
To be honest, it's not that different to London marathon which has similar drop in first few km, then mostly flat. Think Edinburgh half/full has a bigger drop near the start as well, so it's not like it's just the Americans chasing downhill PBs.
This info was wrong anyway, I was looking at Vancouver Half (May) but today's event is the First Half (same organiser) and the course is a bit different, pan flat pretty much.
Free entry for V35+ men who can run under 34min 10k / 1:15 HM / 2:45 marathon
Surprisingly deep race. 146 runners under 1:20 today. Many Canadian cities don't offer anything other than winter 5ks and 10ks this time of year, so it must have attracted a lot of of out-of-province runners prepping for spring marathons, especially with many avoiding the U.S. right now
Global Runner sounding quite bullish about attempting sub 70 half marathon in Vancouver today. Just checked course profile, elevation drop of ~200 feet, although it's mainly in a two mile section near the start, then overall flat after that.
To be honest, it's not that different to London marathon which has similar drop in first few km, then mostly flat. Think Edinburgh half/full has a bigger drop near the start as well, so it's not like it's just the Americans chasing downhill PBs.
Looks like he was a bit gassed after that, but still fought hard to keep his mile splits in 5:25-5:30 range, last two miles a few secs slower but slightly uphill there.
Strong effort, probably could have run sub 71 again but he wanted sub 70 so fair play.
He said pre race he was going to try to do what Allie O did at Houston half, closing strong in the last 3 miles, as he'd noted she put nearly a minute into him after passing him quite late on. But she was ticking off her early miles a bit slower, so she had something left.
Can't go off at sub 10k pace and expect to have anything left later on.
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Brits please can you explain Callum Goddard to me. Is his audience entirely clueless post-pandemic trend-chasing people getting into running? He obviously has no idea about the sport or training, isn't particularly fast, isn't funny or interesting at all.
Wearing Normatec boots after his 46km week I just give up
Brits please can you explain Callum Goddard to me. Is his audience entirely clueless post-pandemic trend-chasing people getting into running? He obviously has no idea about the sport or training, isn't particularly fast, isn't funny or interesting at all.
Wearing Normatec boots after his 46km week I just give up
I think it’s his podcast guests and he paid a bit to market the clips? That’s the only way I came across him
OMTIU calling out some minor instagram people with barely any followers for claiming a Strava time at the burj2burj half marathon, but has received so many messages tipping off Ben Parker’s fraudulent marathon ‘PB’ around Richmond Green with the biggest GPS drift I’ve ever seen. One big circle jerk.
Issy Sedgwick is arguably worse than Goddard is. The worst was when she claimed she had done a 150k ultramarathon when she did it over a week and then posted the full thing as one run at then end.
That or the embarrassingly cringe footage of her finishing her first marathon with her and Goddard both acting like it was some heroic act of god that she managed a 5 hour marathon. Just put the lululemon plus sized promo in the bag
OMTIU calling out some minor instagram people with barely any followers for claiming a Strava time at the burj2burj half marathon, but has received so many messages tipping off Ben Parker’s fraudulent marathon ‘PB’ around Richmond Green with the biggest GPS drift I’ve ever seen. One big circle jerk.
Yeah it's going to end up being glaring in it's omission of the top tier influencers who are guilty and going after these weirdly small fish; it's sort of suspicious in itself.
Friend of mine ran a low 2:20s marathon a little while ago, regional/national level race, didn't win any prize money has a full time job, no sponsorship or influencer deals - they did an 'investigation' and 'verified' his result. Just a strange level or result, and athlete to go after - and knowing that he and his running circle have a pretty big dislike of Ben Parker and Runna I can't imagine that it's because it's actually him or someone he knows running the account cause they'd be all over Parker if they had the platform.
So yeah - why are they bothering with all this low level/low impact infringement?