The sensible thing is to pull out of Tokyo and focus on London.
This is the problem, though. He'll always push for the "train harder, not smarter" approach. The reality is that he'll gain nothing out of slogging through another marathon but will probably still do it.
On Jake's recent run, titled: The slow rebuild starts now (hopefully!)
matt fox (despite his AI seemingly not figuring out how to use the shift key) said: “Rebuild” after so much lost fitness
Jake replied: matt fox not fitness but sharpness
Bit of a weird interaction. There's a difference between having a couple of days off and rotting in a prison cell for several months after being retarded enough to try and import drugs into Japan. I haven't missed him one bit, and he's gradually crawling out of the woodwork again.
How do you know Matt has been rotting in a prison cell? If this were the case you'd think he'd mention it in, oh I don't know, every podcast and YouTube video for the last few months. Surprisingly he hasn't mentioned it that much...
No influencer likes to be referred to as an influencer. And the "pro" or "elite" label is part of the draw for her audience.
I keep seeing contract figures being thrown around but absolutely no one is posting any sources. Has anyone openly shared what they make or made out of any sponsorship contracts?
I would look up what an NDA is.
Sure but that's why I added "made" as well. And in many sports journalists moving around in that world will have good connections and will report some reliable information even if it's anonymous. Is there anything like that out there?
Anyone follow Australian runfluencer Louis phillips? Brags about running in a calorie deficit now the bloke has a stress fracture. Dangerous stuff from someone with 218 thousand followers.
Anyone follow Australian runfluencer Louis phillips? Brags about running in a calorie deficit now the bloke has a stress fracture. Dangerous stuff from someone with 218 thousand followers.
As much as it annoys me that these people seem to be the new authority on running for the masses, at least this guy owned it in his video. Acknowledged the errors of deficit and stopping strength training. Interestingly it was Seth O'D in his comments that basically says stresses just happen if you run. Normalising stress fractures is madness- with the Runna cult and rogue influencers I fear that the 'stressy' will be (is?) a badge of honour.
On the topic of how much brands are shelving out for professional runners - word on the ground in NZ is that the Nike contract Sam Ruthe initially signed was 3 years at 200k base per year. Which one would have to assume is on the higher side due to Nike wanting to make sure they locked down the boy with the potential to be the next big thing.
I still think it’s sad that Scullion has basically packed it in to become a clothes salesman. To think he went from being a pro to copying Ben Parkes, but not doing it as well.
Are Keely and Jakob YouTubers? What about Sesemann and Yee? Are they looking at the likes of Fenton and thinking ‘I need to get in on that as a side hustle’?
You think it's sad that a pro runner has used his platform, created by himself, to create a new career for himself.
I mean yeah he could have kept plugging away not making much money and gone into obscurity without a future , seems reasonable.
I've bought some of the gear he now has. Singlets are gift , shorts not bad and the leggings ok. I prefer giving my money to an ex runner earning a living than a big brand tbh. Fair play to him
That podcast was more than that. At the end of it, he accused "Mr. Boomshacklacka," as he calls his ex-friend Nick Bester, of doping and provides "evidence" of Bester blowing past doping controls at the finish of the Berlin Marathon when he ran 2:20 (the testers were there for the elite women, not some random dude running 2:20).
Link:.
I dream of a WADA sting operation to bust the runfluencer sphere. Fake natty's begone!
If you’re an old school runner you should know better than not to listen to runfluencers. If you’re a new school runner, I feel for you, all these runfluencers are cooked and I’m sorry if you’ve been informed by them. They should suck sh*t and have their knowledge reviewed for QA purposes.
You think it's sad that a pro runner has used his platform, created by himself, to create a new career for himself.
I mean yeah he could have kept plugging away not making much money and gone into obscurity without a future , seems reasonable.
I've bought some of the gear he now has. Singlets are gift , shorts not bad and the leggings ok. I prefer giving my money to an ex runner earning a living than a big brand tbh. Fair play to him
Those shorts are drop shipped off Ali express if you reverse image search them but hey what isn’t I guess.
I once complained to Scully because delivery took week longer than it stated. He had a go at me for complaining but he didn’t have a clue about customer service. F*king idiot
first two paragraphs yes (notwithstanding the various pro athletes running youtube channels now, but i get what you mean)
third paragraph, no. "cottage" sessions are quintessential ambitious amateur stuff, as per many club and university groups through the decades.
How do the sessions fit amateur v pro? I mean MTC are just k reps. Where’s the line?
wasn't suggesting there's anything sub standard about the sessions; while you get the odd john cook or mihaly igloi being a bit wacky, generally decent distance training looks more or less the same for everyone. just a comment on intention and personnel. london group has plenty of strong national level amateur runners but it's not brett robinson and stewart mcsweyn being looked over by nic bideau - ie people who do it for a living
i've no idea about lululemon and i'm very much aware that the majority of british internationals are earning sweet fa. that said, the athletes deemed worthy of a contract are being paid a reasonable amount.
if nike had tried to reduce dina asher-smith's salary to less than 100k, she would be wearing puma. well known, well liked, individual world champs winner with nine global medals and six european golds.
does this sound like someone nike will be paying less than georgia bell:
Dina's a washed athlete over-taken by Amy Hunt and reliant on relays medals to make money. struggles to get into finals these days but shes had a good career. shes in decline though so her earning power is decreasing since she benefited from a weak field and won the world champs. anyone getting an MBE, is on the cusp of retirement
Completely agree, Dina also seems properly salty towards Amy Hunt too.
I think people need to understand, brands only care about Phily, or any other person they sponsor. as an asset to shift whatever crap their peddling. It's a simple return on spend formula. Case in point, Phily latest "My new sponsor." video, released at the same time, has over double to views of Keely's "breaking the world record" video -- complete insanity!
To further hammer home return on spend. Lulu made $10 billion in revenue last year and spends $500 mil annually on marketing. They sponsor ~50 athletes on bigger contracts like Philly, Jonny Davies, Lewis Hamilton (obviously gets paid the most, made $1.5 mil with puma), max Homa. If 50 of them get $200k/year, that’s 10 million (or 2% of annual marketing spend). If you even go on the high end and say 10 of them are on marquee $1 mil/year contracts, that’s still only $20 mil/year total spent on sponsorships (4% of marketing annually for the dense). But on philly’s end, this isn’t just sponsorship, this is work; 1/3 of lulu’s earned media value comes from influencers like Philly. As an athlete she also has higher engagement than pure influencers and has 3x as many followers as hunter bell and hiltz while posting 20x more than them. That’s pure ROI. Seems like a pretty good deal for lulu.
Seems to be either off the juice, or entering overtraining territory. Who woulda thought running a bunch of fast 5Ks and doing all your "easy" runs at 7:00/mi isn't sustainable?
I've been watching a few different shoetubers' reviews for the new Brooks Glycerin Flex which looks absolutely terrible. The contrast between the reviews of people who got the shoes for free and the people who actually spent real money on them is crazy.
You've got Ben Parkes who's spent cash on them giving you a full comprehensive list of dislikes and why they're awful shoes, and then Ben Fenton who went on an all expenses paid trip to Spain telling you how good they are. Kofuzi also got them for free and just glazes them the whole video.
It also seems to have less to do with cash than caste. There's plenty of relatively poor upper class people in Britain. The British class system operates by its own subtle, unwritten rules. It’s opaque, highly coded, and often impenetrable to outsiders.
I know a self-made billionaire who was turned away from a very traditional golf club because they didn't want his nouveau-riche type around.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor on letsrun? Maybe all this time him and The Stein were just scouting for a Sam Ruthe esc phenom?
All jokes aside I am going to need to get a weekly milage check for the royal nonce himself
I don't know about mileage but I hear he's been putting in a string of sub 7's
That podcast was more than that. At the end of it, he accused "Mr. Boomshacklacka," as he calls his ex-friend Nick Bester, of doping and provides "evidence" of Bester blowing past doping controls at the finish of the Berlin Marathon when he ran 2:20 (the testers were there for the elite women, not some random dude running 2:20). Then he goes on a rant about how his ex-coach in Boulder was behind the "Let's Run Hate." Didn't he run for Rick Rojas while he was up there; I have a hard time seeing how a guy who appears to still use a flip phone could be behind the bot-fueled campaign Fox says insulted him. Then Fox plugs his pay-to-post forum as better than Let's Run because nobody will be saying anything mean on it. Then he says that "Let's Run posters are in a funny spot, I wouldn't want to be them, let's leave it at that.* After that, he goes on and on about how the only place he can live at the moment is his native Australia. Worth a hate listen!
Seems to be either off the juice, or entering overtraining territory. Who woulda thought running a bunch of fast 5Ks and doing all your "easy" runs at 7:00/mi isn't sustainable?
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