The Trials and Tribulations of Running YouTubers

Completely agree in regards to the comments about Anya Culling. From someone masquerading around as an 'elite athlete', I will judge her performance as such and her stopping and crying mid race in her partners arms because the race isn't going to plan, is disgraceful.

Where's the resilience? Elite athletes don't crumble like that when things aren't going well.

Granted that I am not her target audience and there's clearly a lot of people who can get behind her schtick of 'an elite athlete who goes through real emotions like the rest of us' and think it's cute and inspiring that she broke down to her lover mid race and then found the strength to continue. I'd agree that it's good on her for keeping going, apart from the fact that she herself states she's an elite runner, so I will therefore hold her to that standard.

This is the type of response we’ve been looking for. If she states she’s an elite runner, best believe we’ll judge her like an elite runner. Will wait for the feminists to come for me, but is it not becoming a typical theme that female runfluencers are breaking down mid race in tears running to their partners then using it as a narrative for the content after? Remember McCarthys sob story at London too? Haven’t even looked at what that Savannah chick ran today - gather she walked the whole way.

F*ck me. This sport is completely washed.

New video from Jonny D. Says he will win the bpn ultra. Keep the receipts because I’m telling you he will dnf. Imagine your whole year just being based around this? Funny af when people with full time jobs doing half the training will beat him.

One of the most useless page I've ever seen, he operates during working hours and he has link for donations, so he probably needs a job.

I don't like that he is taking screenshots of other's profile to repost on his stories or even worse creating a post with people's Instagram tags like the one he has pinned, so putting these random into shame for his own benefit/fame and passing as an "hero".

He is glazing around to get himself known for an useless cause, the real cause is getting followers and make profit from it.. His content consists in catching 45 year old Sue that ran 1:59 marathon but posts it as a 1:58 on Instagram or verifying a National record. Wow mate what a hero..

I wanted to comment on him to mention some of the above, but I don't really comment anyone's post on Instagram.

Can we at least add some nuance to the idea that “lots of men/women with full-time jobs and families run super fast marathons”?
I’m struggling to break 36 in the 10K, and right now my life is basically: run, recover, sleep, repeat. I’m not supporting a family and I’m not working full-time. Even with that flexibility, it’s hard to optimize training.
I’m sure there are exceptional people who balance family, career, and high-level training. But they’re probably outliers, not the norm. High performance usually requires trade-offs somewhere, like time, energy or attention.
There’s no magic. If you’re running very fast, something else in life is likely being deprioritized, at least temporarily.

Can you fill us in on what's occupying so much time if you don't have a family to support and you're not working full time?

There's 110 waking hours in a week (give or take), and I'm guessing based on your ability, you're spending no more than 10 hours running. So, what are you doing with the other 100 hours that's making training so hard to fit in?

In general, I don't think the issue is people deprioritizing anything particularly important. Some people are just better at being organised, not procrastinating or wasting time on their phones.

Aubrey (bigger than running) got his sub 4 at Tokyo. Can’t wait to hear “letssss goooooo” 7000 times in the race vlog

In what way is a 2:17 net downhill marathon PB on a 6 deg C day surpassing a 2:14 PB on a flat course in a 20 deg C day? Just curious.

I'm so glad for the big man. He is finally getting the rewards for years of graft and toil. No silver spoon here, a totally self made success.

It is amazing to see his collabs with Bester, The Running Channel and Believe In The Run. He is helping those smaller channels grow by leaning in increasing their reach.

Even for a super successful man, he hasn't sold out to the big brands. He carefully selects who will be the brand he works with. Amazing dude, morals of a saint.

I saw him on the "It's On Andy" Seville video and he was out there inspiring other sub elites to achieve the goal of becoming a pro YouTuber.

You'll be one of the 1,000 odd people to bother watching it, then?

Go to the Norwegian Singles Method thread and take a look at plenty of sub 35 min 10k runners who are running 7/8 hours a week. That's not too much to fit in with everything else is it?

This "runner" is unbearable. He and Fordy compete for the worst content, I'd need to get paid to watch their channels.

It’s clearly not but if you look at more recent results, he ran a 63 minute half in Barcelona which is surely better than anything RTJ has ran recently?

So Jake is deleting comments from his Tokyo Strava run?

the feck's a wmm video?

Saw a hilarious post from Theo Baker yesterday - Went round and did the predicted time trend thing before and after Tokyo for all the 'Runna Athletes' and all except from 1 massively missed their goal.

What a great bit of promotion that is for a running coaching app

World Marathon Major. one of the big ones they keep promoting. is it 6 or 7 now with Sydney added. a marketing thing really but good for clicks i guess.

i really don't think he'd be interested in listening to a letsrun keyboard warrior. some people of here may know who you are, but i have never heard of you