This may be an unpopular opinion but I think we can stop, even if joking, with the deeply personal insults. Call their training stupid or idiotic, but basing insults around education or previous jobs is a bit far.
do we think Gabriel Smith and Hugo Fry have a rota for who's using the kitchen at what time of the morning for the YT b-roll?
Do you think they have those selfie stick / phone stands in every room to record themselves in their natural habitat, walking into rooms or waking up in the morning.
It all seems a bit weird. Imagine being a grown man and sharing a flat with someone where both of you are just walking around filming yourselves and talking into your phone eight hours a day lol
Judge sirpoc on his writing and what he says and writes. I'm not saying he's a noble laureate, but he's articulate and makes sound arguments! Enough for me to think he has some interesting ideas.
Contrast this with Fenton, Goddard, and Bester, all of whom have degrees. Despite that, none of them appear remotely literate, intellectually sharp, or capable of applying critical thinking and judgement to their training.
Sirpoc has had two lives. One as an aerodynamics expert on the bike and a second life applying sound reason and science to running for hobby runners.
I couldn't care he has no qualifications, degrees, GCSEs. You only have to read his book to realise he is an incredibly smart person who can communicate.
This is nothing against any of the other guys. But as someone who runs a multi national business, nowadays qualifications are almost the last thing I'm looking for when it comes to what can somebody bring to my company.
What a lot of the guys we speak about in here lack is emotional intelligence. Which is why they provide such tremendous content for us to mock. Their lack of emotional intelligence is quite staggering at times.
FENTON is a barista, NOT a coach, he struggles to spell his name correctly or put his pants on in the morning
Where is Lord Bester? the thirsty toilet dwellers of Battersea are deeply concerned having seen a honking session last week and no sign since he looked to be taking over the park with a tinpot race but there were more paramedics in attendance than runners, we hope his bruised ego isnt hindering his preparation to attack the 2:30 barrier
Judge sirpoc on his writing and what he says and writes. I'm not saying he's a noble laureate, but he's articulate and makes sound arguments! Enough for me to think he has some interesting ideas.
Contrast this with Fenton, Goddard, and Bester, all of whom have degrees. Despite that, none of them appear remotely literate, intellectually sharp, or capable of applying critical thinking and judgement to their training.
Sirpoc has had two lives. One as an aerodynamics expert on the bike and a second life applying sound reason and science to running for hobby runners.
I couldn't care he has no qualifications, degrees, GCSEs. You only have to read his book to realise he is an incredibly smart person who can communicate.
This is nothing against any of the other guys. But as someone who runs a multi national business, nowadays qualifications are almost the last thing I'm looking for when it comes to what can somebody bring to my company.
What a lot of the guys we speak about in here lack is emotional intelligence. Which is why they provide such tremendous content for us to mock. Their lack of emotional intelligence is quite staggering at times.
“But as someone who runs a multi national business” - we know it’s you, Nick Bester
do we think Gabriel Smith and Hugo Fry have a rota for who's using the kitchen at what time of the morning for the YT b-roll?
Do you think they have those selfie stick / phone stands in every room to record themselves in their natural habitat, walking into rooms or waking up in the morning.
It all seems a bit weird. Imagine being a grown man and sharing a flat with someone where both of you are just walking around filming yourselves and talking into your phone eight hours a day lol
Agree this is weird and in reality why the vast majority don't broadcast their lives on social media. However, both those two actually seem alright and don't take themselves too seriously/have some self-awareness...
Saw Callum Elson say on strava he "Woke up angry at the world", I assume due to him still being injured (he did a test run yesterday). Must be a hard life to be a full time professional athlete...
Saw Callum Elson say on strava he "Woke up angry at the world", I assume due to him still being injured (he did a test run yesterday). Must be a hard life to be a full time professional athlete...
I'm a crap hobby jogger who runs 4-5 times a week and being injured really gets me down. It will be obviously worse for a full time professional athlete.
Saw Callum Elson say on strava he "Woke up angry at the world", I assume due to him still being injured (he did a test run yesterday). Must be a hard life to be a full time professional athlete...
The biggest news of the week is that Robbe is leaving Believe in the Run. Does anyone know why, or where he’s headed next? He’s been running very low mileage for quite a while, and it feels like he’s been doing the bare minimum needed to review running shoes.
OMTIU loser now posting under World Athletics posts, posts “verified” under a post about Cam Myers running 3:29 in the 1500 at Australian champs.
my loathing for this guy just grows and grows. The absolute nerve of acting like he needs to verify a record run on a track in a national champs. And the stupidity too, given that if it was a record it WOULDNT be verified until after testing etc etc.
The biggest news of the week is that Robbe is leaving Believe in the Run. Does anyone know why, or where he’s headed next? He’s been running very low mileage for quite a while, and it feels like he’s been doing the bare minimum needed to review running shoes.
I am still absolutely in shock that Robbe and Thomas are not a couple. I just assumed they were until I started reading this thread
OMTIU loser now posting under World Athletics posts, posts “verified” under a post about Cam Myers running 3:29 in the 1500 at Australian champs.
my loathing for this guy just grows and grows. The absolute nerve of acting like he needs to verify a record run on a track in a national champs. And the stupidity too, given that if it was a record it WOULDNT be verified until after testing etc etc.
It would be funny if he commented this under the posts about Gout Gout and the 200 or made some comment about people's questions over those results, but I'm sure that's way over this guy's head. Seems like every time I see this page it's either targeting some random person for posting their 3:30 chip timed marathon as 3:29 because of their watch/strava, or he's trying desperately to insert himself into the wider running social media scene. I believe you Aussies/Brits have terms for guys like this such as bell-end, knob-head, melt, etc. Someone will have to correct me though, as I'm just a clueless American when it comes to these descriptors.
OMTIU loser now posting under World Athletics posts, posts “verified” under a post about Cam Myers running 3:29 in the 1500 at Australian champs.
my loathing for this guy just grows and grows. The absolute nerve of acting like he needs to verify a record run on a track in a national champs. And the stupidity too, given that if it was a record it WOULDNT be verified until after testing etc etc.
It would be funny if he commented this under the posts about Gout Gout and the 200 or made some comment about people's questions over those results, but I'm sure that's way over this guy's head. Seems like every time I see this page it's either targeting some random person for posting their 3:30 chip timed marathon as 3:29 because of their watch/strava, or he's trying desperately to insert himself into the wider running social media scene. I believe you Aussies/Brits have terms for guys like this such as bell-end, knob-head, melt, etc. Someone will have to correct me though, as I'm just a clueless American when it comes to these descriptors.
do we think Gabriel Smith and Hugo Fry have a rota for who's using the kitchen at what time of the morning for the YT b-roll?
Do you think they have those selfie stick / phone stands in every room to record themselves in their natural habitat, walking into rooms or waking up in the morning.
It all seems a bit weird. Imagine being a grown man and sharing a flat with someone where both of you are just walking around filming yourselves and talking into your phone eight hours a day lol
In 2026, with the state of what’s happening in the world, if two fellas filming in a kitchen about running bothers you, then touch grass and speak to a woman, brev.
FENTON is a barista, NOT a coach, he struggles to spell his name correctly or put his pants on in the morning
Where is Lord Bester? the thirsty toilet dwellers of Battersea are deeply concerned having seen a honking session last week and no sign since he looked to be taking over the park with a tinpot race but there were more paramedics in attendance than runners, we hope his bruised ego isnt hindering his preparation to attack the 2:30 barrier
I saw he's been taking "corporate" people out for a run at lunch in the city. Who on earth would pay for a run with him dressed as a power range and what exactly are they getting apart from him.
Judge sirpoc on his writing and what he says and writes. I'm not saying he's a noble laureate, but he's articulate and makes sound arguments! Enough for me to think he has some interesting ideas.
Contrast this with Fenton, Goddard, and Bester, all of whom have degrees. Despite that, none of them appear remotely literate, intellectually sharp, or capable of applying critical thinking and judgement to their training.
Sirpoc has had two lives. One as an aerodynamics expert on the bike and a second life applying sound reason and science to running for hobby runners.
I couldn't care he has no qualifications, degrees, GCSEs. You only have to read his book to realise he is an incredibly smart person who can communicate.
This is nothing against any of the other guys. But as someone who runs a multi national business, nowadays qualifications are almost the last thing I'm looking for when it comes to what can somebody bring to my company.
What a lot of the guys we speak about in here lack is emotional intelligence. Which is why they provide such tremendous content for us to mock. Their lack of emotional intelligence is quite staggering at times.
Why must people keep bringing up sirpoc? Why are we throwing him into comparisons so much? He's not a YouTuber (what this thread was originally about) and he's not much of a running "influencer" (what this thread has become.) So many people here get their panties in a twist about other, actual YouTubers have cult-like followers, but wow... ya'll are really obsessed with this guy.