This - I live on the GNR route so do it basically every year and it's infuriating how many there are - he's like a cult leader, but the only members he can brainwash are mediocre "runners" who are impressed by sub-30 5k's
How many who are criticising Fordy Runs have actually used his coaching? I've been on the Gold tier for 12 months (only £99.99 per month), and it has transformed my running. Before I started with him, I was running 2 or 3 times a week, since he's been my coach I am now running 5 times per week, with double the mileage. I've gone from 4:17 to 4:02 in those 12 months and hoping to go sub 4 in London. I credit all my success to Fordy and would definitely recommend his coaching.
He doesn't even enjoy running, he is only doing it for the gram.
All he cares is to feed his pod and socials with as much content as possible, he chose "sub 3" as a target cause it sounds nicer and it can use it for a more clickbait title to whatever he is posting.
If he really dares to hang on to sub 3 pace, he will bonk so hard and probably give up running for a while or just plod around social runs, where they can enjoy a well deserved overpriced coffee at the end.
It’s a pity he will be able to blame the weather cause he wasn’t running it either way.
just for arguments sake for the dimwitted americans in this forum, the weather looks unreal. The weather chat today has been bester and fenton bashing sarcasm after the SCORCHING HOT vitality 10k last year
Nah, I'm on the ground here in Greenwich right now, and it's hot as balls. Sun has been out all week, with very little cloud cover. It's not going to be a shady course.
It'll be a wipeout like last year unfortunately.
Hot as balls, you say? Have you let the organisers know?
It's probably too late to cancel, but they could at least read out a message to everyone before the start with your advice.
Credit to Floberg where it's due as the pacing was well executed, but no human being is running 2:01 in an "insanely difficult course".
If anything, yesterday showed for the first time what the combination of favourable wind and the new shoes can achieve in Boston, and that is mitigating to the very minimum the muscle fatigue from early downhill and late-ish uphill (a profile which, by the way, has always been exaggerated in true American style). Maybe if Kiplimo and Sawe had been running yesterday the 2-hour barrier could have been challenged.
Does anybody else’s life feel like it’s on pause until Floberg drops his Boston video?? Like I’m at work performing an important surgery on a newborn and then my mind drifts towards Floberg attacking Heartbreak Hill with 2.30 on the line and my job and my life seems so pointless and futile in comparison. How can I get on with mundane daily tasks whilst I still don’t know what Big E was thinking during those last few miles of the greatest sporting performance in human history??
Ranks up there with MJ's Shot beating my Cavs in '89. Core memories, bro!
According to the weather forecast, London will be a truly savage 11–12°C on Sunday between 9 and 10 a.m. Absolutely brutal conditions. Honestly, it’s basically on par with the Paris Olympics the year before.
Reminder that the GOAT OG shoetuber is back and better than ever (despite multiple proclaimed retirements ala Jordan). He’s running up 14ers in the snow for no reason. Trashing brands (cough soar) for sending him whack, overpriced gear. And being refreshingly honest about his own limitations and failures in recent fkt attempts. Also looking snazzy with the hair, stash, and overall fit. And tastefully leaving the fam (take notes bloberg!) out of it. It’s all kept in shoedio.
I've been up and down on that roamin' Catholic but if he keeps the family out of it and owns up to his past poor training, I'd support him more (no sarcasm). I do think he could have trained TL well and helped her to a good 5k time over a few months to a year.
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Reminder that the GOAT OG shoetuber is back and better than ever (despite multiple proclaimed retirements ala Jordan). He’s running up 14ers in the snow for no reason. Trashing brands (cough soar) for sending him whack, overpriced gear. And being refreshingly honest about his own limitations and failures in recent fkt attempts. Also looking snazzy with the hair, stash, and overall fit. And tastefully leaving the fam (take notes bloberg!) out of it. It’s all kept in shoedio.
I've been up and down on that roamin' Catholic but if he keeps the family out of it and owns up to his past poor training, I'd support him more (no sarcasm). I do think he could have trained TL well and helped her to a good 5k time over a few months to a year.
We need a good poncho walk before I can fully support him again. Give the people what they want!
Nah, I'm on the ground here in Greenwich right now, and it's hot as balls. Sun has been out all week, with very little cloud cover. It's not going to be a shady course.
It'll be a wipeout like last year unfortunately.
Hot as balls, you say? Have you let the organisers know?
It's probably too late to cancel, but they could at least read out a message to everyone before the start with your advice.
If it were america they'd probably set up for some finisher's medals around Canary Wharf
I'm similar age, build etc to Goddard and just blew up on the weekend going for sub3 finishing in 3:07. Apart from I have a 1:24 half and did a workout with more than 18km at marathon pace. Think if he goes out at sub3 pace he'll be lucky to do 3:45.
He doesn't even enjoy running, he is only doing it for the gram.
All he cares is to feed his pod and socials with as much content as possible, he chose "sub 3" as a target cause it sounds nicer and it can use it for a more clickbait title to whatever he is posting.
If he really dares to hang on to sub 3 pace, he will bonk so hard and probably give up running for a while or just plod around social runs, where they can enjoy a well deserved overpriced coffee at the end.
Goddard Mocklow pacing strategy video with head runna coach Anya has dropped. You can see why they pay her the big bucks for this coaching gig despite the naysayers arguing you should be qualified to do your job. Her presenting is always a treat too, most people who have a job that requires constant media appearances might bother to remember a their lines, or make actual notes or prepare a whiteboard or teleprompter to talk through them - but she's learned that just staring at your phone screen and reading off it is good enough.
Insights from the masterclass include:
"There will be a jump between warm up and race pace"
"Loads of elites do max 20km of marathon pace work in any one run during the block because you rely on the taper, you rely on like cumulative miles through the block for confidence you can hit marathon paces"
"Your heart rate will just be lower on race day" after he tells her that race day adrenaline always makes his hr spike especially early in a race
"On the perfect day you can do sub 3"
The strategy is aggressive negative splits - the last 12k all being safely under his half marathon pb pace, looking to speed up more than 10s/km from the first 5k to the last.
Think his top end is probably just outside 3 hours, but aggressively chasing negative splits when you've got such a reach goal isn't going to be much help getting there.
He doesn't even enjoy running, he is only doing it for the gram.
All he cares is to feed his pod and socials with as much content as possible, he chose "sub 3" as a target cause it sounds nicer and it can use it for a more clickbait title to whatever he is posting.
If he really dares to hang on to sub 3 pace, he will bonk so hard and probably give up running for a while or just plod around social runs, where they can enjoy a well deserved overpriced coffee at the end.
Goddard Mocklow pacing strategy video with head runna coach Anya has dropped. You can see why they pay her the big bucks for this coaching gig despite the naysayers arguing you should be qualified to do your job. Her presenting is always a treat too, most people who have a job that requires constant media appearances might bother to remember a their lines, or make actual notes or prepare a whiteboard or teleprompter to talk through them - but she's learned that just staring at your phone screen and reading off it is good enough.
Insights from the masterclass include:
"There will be a jump between warm up and race pace"
"Loads of elites do max 20km of marathon pace work in any one run during the block because you rely on the taper, you rely on like cumulative miles through the block for confidence you can hit marathon paces"
"Your heart rate will just be lower on race day" after he tells her that race day adrenaline always makes his hr spike especially early in a race
"On the perfect day you can do sub 3"
The strategy is aggressive negative splits - the last 12k all being safely under his half marathon pb pace, looking to speed up more than 10s/km from the first 5k to the last.
Think his top end is probably just outside 3 hours, but aggressively chasing negative splits when you've got such a reach goal isn't going to be much help getting there.
Obviously different levels of seriousness but Dan Nash and Owain Zerilli talk on their pod about wearing face masks whenever they feel they need to in race week. Think Owain talked about wanting to wear one at work? Ryan Thompson always seems to wear one travelling on race week too.
Godard however, knows he's living with someone who's got an rti type illness in her chest and feels absolutely rats. Both of them are swanning around meeting other runners and people preparing for marathons without a care in the world because he's taking some echinoid tablets with meals.
We need a good poncho walk before I can fully support him again. Give the people what they want!
Man, we really, really had it good with SJD from like 2021 through early 2023. The daily uploads, the insistence on not following any long established training principles, the 2 hours of sleep per night all combined for a trainwreck I could not look away from. What's everyone's top 5 SJD moments? In no particular order for me (after the first): Poncho walk, the time SJD gifted a nephew a pair of used vaporflys in the wrong size, the time he booked victory lap on the local news after blowing up at the 50k, the infamous Chipolte run, and the time he bought a 20 year old car and insisted he was going to give it to his daughters one day. I'm sure there are many magical moments I am forgetting about though!
Goddard Mocklow pacing strategy video with head runna coach Anya has dropped. You can see why they pay her the big bucks for this coaching gig despite the naysayers arguing you should be qualified to do your job. Her presenting is always a treat too, most people who have a job that requires constant media appearances might bother to remember a their lines, or make actual notes or prepare a whiteboard or teleprompter to talk through them - but she's learned that just staring at your phone screen and reading off it is good enough.
Insights from the masterclass include:
"There will be a jump between warm up and race pace"
"Loads of elites do max 20km of marathon pace work in any one run during the block because you rely on the taper, you rely on like cumulative miles through the block for confidence you can hit marathon paces"
"Your heart rate will just be lower on race day" after he tells her that race day adrenaline always makes his hr spike especially early in a race
"On the perfect day you can do sub 3"
The strategy is aggressive negative splits - the last 12k all being safely under his half marathon pb pace, looking to speed up more than 10s/km from the first 5k to the last.
Think his top end is probably just outside 3 hours, but aggressively chasing negative splits when you've got such a reach goal isn't going to be much help getting there.
It was the worst strategy plan she could've ever given to him..
I'm always up for a conservative start and a potential even/negative split, but there is no way he can negative split a sub 3 in London with the fitness he is at, he doesn't have enough experience to do that on a course where the first half is considerably faster than the second, he will barely be conscious at 37k and she's telling him to drop the fastest 5k at the end 😂
His best take is to just go by effort, don't burn many matches at the start and run the best time he safely can, PB, get some confidence and move on, but he seems to be too obsessed to rush into getting a sub 3.. Good Luck
I would pay good money to just have a close up camera on SIRPOC as Goddard goes on his 3rd 40 minute ramble of the episode about his training for London marathon and how humbling the marathon is.
I would pay even better money for him to explain to Goddards face exactly why his training is complete dogsh*t just for Goddard to do a 32k Runna session the next day with 0 self awareness
These guys are mostly idiots and have no idea about training. Goddard, FORDYRUNS, floberg, even Fenton to an extent. I thank sirpoc for coming along and understanding and making good training really accessible for hobby joggers. If nothing else, it's good it has caused me to stop watching these tossers. Most of these guys could pick up the NSM book and instantly get faster. But the majority don't care about their own performance, or their viewers, just churning out pure garbage week to week I congratulate fod for understanding this isn't a fad and adapting to get on board. Just look at how much he's improved.
The sad thing is, I bet the likes of the above don't understand how little they know. They are in the dark with their own cluelessness.
Are you faster than any of the above you mentioned?
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