Roche is pretty outspoken that he is a secular humanist. Doesn't believe in God, never goes to church. Which doesn't make sense to me because if there is no God, where do morals (aka his schtick about "loving everyone") come from? Why not just do what's best for you?
But, there are millions of people who try to live ethical, moral lives without the threat of punishment by god. Crazy concept I know.
If the only thing keeping a person decent is the expectation of divine reward, then, brother that person is a [Running YouTuber]
McCarthy boldly stating in her most recent video she was in PB shape before getting a stress fracture in Sydney. Didn’t she say that last before she flopped at London and made reels crying thinking the sport owed her a PB? Honestly, the arrogance of this human. Watch me get called out because she’s a woman and apparently you can’t make remarks about female influencers without their fan base coming after you. Fortunately/hopefully her target audience don’t even know what’s let runs is.
McCarthy boldly stating in her most recent video she was in PB shape before getting a stress fracture in Sydney. Didn’t she say that last before she flopped at London and made reels crying thinking the sport owed her a PB? Honestly, the arrogance of this human. Watch me get called out because she’s a woman and apparently you can’t make remarks about female influencers without their fan base coming after you. Fortunately/hopefully her target audience don’t even know what’s let runs is.
I'm not doing London this year and I'm thinking to spectate at the 35-36km mark, waving the Let's Run Flag.. Is anyone down for it? 😅
McCarthy boldly stating in her most recent video she was in PB shape before getting a stress fracture in Sydney. Didn’t she say that last before she flopped at London and made reels crying thinking the sport owed her a PB? Honestly, the arrogance of this human. Watch me get called out because she’s a woman and apparently you can’t make remarks about female influencers without their fan base coming after you. Fortunately/hopefully her target audience don’t even know what’s let runs is.
Gotta keep pumping the algorithm for sympathy points, and gear people up for the return to #beattheboys, and she's gotta keep the paymasters at Runna sweet by suggesting that they bear no responsibility and her training was top tier before the fracture.
Saw a very late "hot take" from Flora Beverly the other day, where she makes no mention of her being a runna ambassador and goes on to say that she thinks training apps bear no responsibility for this. I do wonder the ethics of this stuff - like she's got a huge conflict of interest, sure it's not an ad that might need declaring but it's really disengenuous of her to not put a big caveat on her runna opinions.
She also criticises people for consuming too much content about races and not enough from creators encouraging rest and recovery between blocks. Again a bit disengenuous given a few weeks prior she turned up to Arc of Attrition with an Achilles injury and proceeded to dnf. Doing a race as isolated as that with an injury is about as poor a decision as you can make - willingly taking the chance of putting marshalls at risk to make a couple of reels about how brave you were to dnf...
Did anyone at Worcester Pitchcroft parkrun today see what happened to Donato? he apparently collapsed about half way through a sub-20 attempt. I ran past as a marshal and a couple of runners were tending to him. As much as he's a nuisance in this thread, I do hope he's okay.
Never mind, just heard that he went out too fast, blew up at 3k then faked a collapse and seizure instead of jogging in his blow-up and owning it. Apparently he sat up like the undertaker, pulled a foil blanket out of his pocket, wrapped it round his shoulders and walked off while whistling the Chariots of Fire theme.
Floberg just dropped a 4:40 on an uncalibrated road.
He will be ecstatic at that which shows his utter lack of running intelligence. A 4:40 (if it was even a measured mile) is the equivalent of a 2:34 marathon. He is not where he thinks he needs to be but he doesn't even realise it
Hopefully nothing serious and a speedy recovery for London!
On the other hand, Ben is begging is off to Mallorca to see Mike Ashley and sit together and look at the books.
Gibbo gets lucky avoiding injury in one block and thinks he's invincible and can run stupid mileage and knows better than his coach. Sadly his 2025 London time will ultimately be his PB
Hopefully nothing serious and a speedy recovery for London!
On the other hand, Ben is begging is off to Mallorca to see Mike Ashley and sit together and look at the books.
Gibbo gets lucky avoiding injury in one block and thinks he's invincible and can run stupid mileage and knows better than his coach. Sadly his 2025 London time will ultimately be his PB
I like Cole a lot but isn’t he an osteopath and he’s using Chat GBT for his diagnosis?
Gibbo gets lucky avoiding injury in one block and thinks he's invincible and can run stupid mileage and knows better than his coach. Sadly his 2025 London time will ultimately be his PB
He seems to train really stupidly, just obsessed with mileage and ignoring his coach and body. Doing more than anyone and for what.
Gibbo gets lucky avoiding injury in one block and thinks he's invincible and can run stupid mileage and knows better than his coach. Sadly his 2025 London time will ultimately be his PB
He seems to train really stupidly, just obsessed with mileage and ignoring his coach and body. Doing more than anyone and for what.
"Shoe rotations" and shoes for fast/ easy runs is the wokest shoetuber thing going. And its all a bunch of marketing cr*p.
I would say having a separate race shoe is good even if its not carbon just for the phycological aspect of putting that shoe on when you are in race mode. Other than that I would just stick with a shoe that you like and wear it until it falls apart, then buy the same shoe again as long as you haven't had any problems with it and repeat. If you are a serious runner doing track workouts then spikes for those but there is 0 reason to be rotating between 5 pairs of trainers.
When I see guys running 4 hour marathons talking about their shoe rotation for the block it just makes me cringe. Goddard a prime culprit for it with comments about how great X/Y shoe feels for speedwork when his 1k reps are slower than a half decent hobby joggers marathon pace
Been a couple of days since this was posted, but worth repeating
Shoe rotations don't matter. I get having a race days shoe that has the "magic foam", both for mindset and if you're on the verge of a landmark PB. That might be subb 20 in the 5k or sub 3:00/4:00 in the marathon for which you want a bit of leverage.
But in daily training all that matters is comfort. That you feel good and don't get niggles/injuries. So what if you're ever so slightly slower? .. The intensity is still the same and your gains are also the same.
Gibbo gets lucky avoiding injury in one block and thinks he's invincible and can run stupid mileage and knows better than his coach. Sadly his 2025 London time will ultimately be his PB
He seems to train really stupidly, just obsessed with mileage and ignoring his coach and body. Doing more than anyone and for what.
I think his workouts are good and he’s clearly diligent in managing the intensity. But he’s likely just running too much. If you look at Strava and the stuff Canova had posted on here about Cairess’ training most of the top uk guys are hitting about 180-200k. And most of these guys are pros who can get much better recovery than the average working person. I don’t see the sense in someone who works and had at least one stress fracture in recent years doing 60 odd k more than the top end of that range, like what possible benefit is there vs the risk.
All that being said he’s still one of my favourite YouTubers, fingers crossed it’s just a strain.