Matt Choi's brother with an e-bike on the NYC 'thon course

Neistat is great at seemingly everything he does...

Bro, that's a little over dramatic?

A bike could have killed you? are you fkn serious?

You are motoring along at the ragged edge of your fitness when you are bumped by a bike and you fall awkwardly. During that fall, you hit your head on the pavement or on a piece of steel crowd control barrier. Now you are concussed, possibly bleeding heavily, and your heart rate and blood pressure are spiked. Sadly, it’s going to take EMTs some time to get to you as they attempt to navigate their ambulance through thousands of runners and spectators.

Now do you get it? The danger is quite real and deadly consequences are very plausible.

What is your real goal as an influencer? Just cash flow or something actually meaningful?

Influencer is just another career choice. A lot of jobs aren't meaningful - that's not my beef.

The beef with Matt Choi is he's breaking rules and endangering others. I was never hit by a bike, but I've had close calls and also I've been hit by a car. There was a Holocaust survivor about a decade or so who died being run over by a normal bike in Northern VA.

He can do what he wants in life as long as he's not endangering lives.

Anyway, he said sorry. If you all want to go on and on about it, I'll be entertained but am not spending all my headspace on him.

Yeah, it’s a bit overdramatic. Sure you can fall and injure yourself, but the probability is pretty low.

Let’s just say it was a dick move to make the race all about him and to bring bikes onto the course like he’s some big effin’ deal, as I wouldn’t know who he is were it not for this board, and leave it at that.

imagine in a decade if everyone has their own person micro-drone with a camera that flys out of their phone and follows them

only thing stopping it is a battery breakthrough, everything else exists at that size/weight except the power

any mass event would be nightmare of little buzzing objects, they'll be made illegal but people will do it anyway

You know he's taking the apology seriously because he's wearing a shirt

I guess he would have not stopped it it would not have these consequences now. Blocking others and being against rules if though he knew better did not stop him.

I don't understand how these races, or sponsors or whatever keep gifting him entries when he has repeatedly caused issues....and the general running public can't stand him. His main support is other influencers/wannabe influencer. Needs a ban from all of the majors.

Did any of the redditors create a petition to have him banned from all majors? I’d sign it.

I would 100% agree with this IF this was his first time. He did the exact same stunt before. He did the bib thing too. Now he has 'learned' because he is literally banned from doing it again. A strange fellow. What was his game plan in this? That nobody will notice the shirtless guy with his brother on a electric bike? The same guy who wants so much attention. I'm beginning to wonder if his bro shtick is for real. He is just thick headed.

Who gives a shet about what is going on back in the circus which is anything around 7 minute pace.

Its already JV runners, Boston worshippers, women, costume wearers, and run club leaders. Add influencers with a crew to that too, IDGAF.

How do people feel about an escort on inline-skates? I did that for a friend once at a marathon.

Nobody gives a shi()t about sub elites either. I know several guys who ran in the mid 220s to 235. They all have day jobs. Either you’re a pro or you’re an amateur. A 230 has the same market value as a 430: Zero.

I think Runna needs to take some proper accountability here.
Firstly, their comments are copy and pasted. The worst was the statement from Josh (COO) here was exactly the same as Dom's post elsewhere, both stating they are the only ones who deal with PR.
In terms of Ben running with Matt, you guys knew exactly what was happening. Don't BS by saying you thought it was approved. Own up to the mistake Ben. You knew what was going on

What else are you going to be doing about your current ambassadors and 'coaches'.
There are some big question marks there

Considering he posted an apology to answer for it and got a lifetime ban from NYRR, I think we can stop complaining about this now. I know fitness influencers can be pretty insufferable and conceited and all that, and that fires people up, but clearly the complaints worked. He did a fkd up thing, got called out, got punished, and apologized. With how social media works he will still have a big following and no amount of complaining is going to change that - it's the world we live in.

We all know he isn't going to be punished any further than what he got already. Anyone still crying for more now is just making the running community look soft.

This negative shouldn't overshadow all the great things that happened in NYC on Sunday.