The Trials and Tribulations of Running YouTubers

So Goddard has stated it didn’t go to plan yet he got a PB?? I’m lost. Does this deranged guy really think he’s a professional elite athlete, he’s quick to make comments on his waffle of a podcast about how running and influencers are ‘normalising’ marathons but yet he’s here saying he’s disappointed about the run, yet he got a PB??? Shut up Callum you out of reality bloke, maybe if you actually found a physical running coach and dropped your ego you might improve your time rather than shovelling Runna plans down people’s necks and trying so hard to be the voice of the running community despite only realising recently that you have to run anti-clockwise around an athletics track. Total out of touch guy.

On Runna, Ben beating his chest in front of his ‘team’ lol entitled posh bloke who used the bank of mum and dad to fork out thousands of pounds for him to lean heavily on ai to provide coaching plans and destroying the coaching industry, while calling himself the Head Coach. Bloke barely knows what a B skip is and the only ‘technique tips’ he has his ‘run tall, don’t overstride’ - yeah real worthy tips mate from a so called Coach.

anyway rant over happy Monday everyone!

Nobody does it better than Ben Parker, man has perfected the cringe hype video. Made even better by the men at least 15-20 years his senior in background just going about their business with no fuss or frills.

The transition to gps and chip pbs is interesting - suggests that the pressure on him to be honest has worked although I don't think he's ever going to admit that the 2:34 is just absolute nonsense. He's just way too big and runs way too little (even allowing for the cycling he's doing) to get in that kind of shape. Maybe losing like 10kg of timber and running an extra 20-30+ miles/week consistently gets him a look at a legitimate sub 2:35. But look at the training he does Vs fod to see the gulf he's got to overcome

Yeah obviously a lot of what Goddard is doing is about monetising what he does - so Runna sponsoring his training plans and paying for bibs, along with setting up his own run club - but that just means he's alienated from decent advice and actual support for his training.

Really what you'd advise any British man looking to break 3 in the marathon to do is find their local proper club and seek out the oldest bloke their with the most worn out clipboard and whistle and have a chat every few weeks about what they'd do. Doesn't even really need you to get a specific coach I don't think

Or even just read a copy of JD but tone down the easy pace.

You’ve really sold athletics clubs there, mate. Surprised UKA don’t snap you up

Thanks buddy! You’d be surprised how many people run but actually don’t know how to run. Always advise them to see a professional coach at least once to gain some knowledge. Over pushing people to an app and then moaning online about races not going to plan every time.

These running influencers like Goddard, Jenny Fit, Celina Stephenson talk down actual run clubs any chance they get and then go and form their own which are just social runs which is fine but it’s not an actual training club.

The way Stephenson and Fit talk about all running clubs to promote their own brand is disgusting. You may have had a bad experience where you got left behind but that’s rarely true of 99.99% of athletic run clubs which are so inclusive of all types.

They love to talk about how they help the community but they do so much of a disservice to it.

Wow at JakeRTJ ekiden performance.

averaging 3:07/km over 20+ km on an undulating, humid Japanese course despite not really being at his peak fitness is a great result.

To put that into perspective Fenton averaged pretty much the same pace over just 10km of a pancake flat course on a lovely and cool Scandinavian day. Quite far off the sub 30 still. Sure he will be disappointed about that as was very bullish in the weeks leading up to the race. Almost talking as if it was a formality him getting it now.

Hopefully Jake can stay injury free. Train a bit smarter now he’s part of a team and take his British YouTuber crown back

Can someone who speaks imbecile please decode Goddard's motivational quote he posted on his race recap.

"He who takes on the amarda must face the spoils"

first of all as i said before, he made it up which just shows how big his head has got.

spelt armada wrong and got the ordering of it mixed up so it is the literal antithesis of what he wants it to say

A shout out to J Mills of Crown My Run who smashed out a London PB. A running youtuber who is low on sniffing their own farts, and high on self deprecation / being a normal person.

Whats happened to Ran to Japan? Thought he was doing london?

I don't know a few of these but I agree in general with this totally. So many of these new run clubs and their influencers go on about being 'more inclusive' (but apparently only consist of people in their 20s) but actually, they are far more dangerous places than your trad UK run club. If you are a trad club you are governed by EA which means you have to do stuff like safeguarding and have a welfare rep and be accountable for your members money etc. Absolutely none of which is true for these new ones.

Fenton probably now outside of his peak window, and needs to go back to a base phase. Can't hold that top form indefinitely.

I really wish the major marathons, who definitely have the money to do this, would test this clown. Steroid usage is an epidemic that's growing, caused largely by roided up fitness hybrid athlete influencers that look just like Truett. A four year ban would really crimp the ability of the roid bros to sell nutrition supplements.

The Truett Excuse just dropped, didn't use watch to 'run on feel', definitely had more in the tank yadda yadda

"You’ll notice no Garmin Connect screenshot for this race and that’s due to the simple reason that I didn’t start my watch this race. Had the idea that if I ran based on ✨ feel ✨ then I’d be able to push right at my max and run a great race. Unfortunately, I may have left some time on the table as I do believe a 5:49 per mile average is a bit slow for me at the moment.
Whether I left time out there or if this is truly the current shape I’m in will be answered rather quickly as I signed up for another marathon which is next month.
This is the Olympic Trials or die trying after all and we are still very much standing so it’s one shot after another until my time is up.
My dad @cameronrhanes ran an all time best marathon time of 2:39 and PR’d by 11 minutes at the young age of 58. Incredible feat. That’s the marathon for you, brutal for some, great for others and even historic at times with 2 men breaking 2 hours at London yesterday. No matter what transpires, be proud if you sign up and try and find out for yourself what you can do. Takes courage
Loved meeting you all out here and although it didn’t go as I visualized, I’m grateful for the experience and lesson. Thank you for the cheers and congratulations to my fellow racers"
@247represent

Russ Cook the not so hardest geezer takes the cake for ultimate excuse post though and inadvertentlyshows how cacka Runna is whilst trying to shill for them... ad

"The 2:35 dream died a hard death today. Disappointed to finish so far off my goal with a 2:46:59 but also happy to take a huge chunk off my New York time 6 months ago, grab a new official marathon PB, and experience the absolute scenes of our capital city coming together to roar on thousands of people battering the tarmac.
By kilometre 10 I thought it might all be over but full debrief incoming tomorrow. As for now I wanna say a huge thank you to @runna who I’ve been training with for the last 6 months. I honestly could not recommend the plans enough, especially for those looking to make some improvements or set their first running goal. If you wanna give it a bash code HARDESTGEEZER gets you a 2 week free trial
Also a huge thank you to everyone shouting and cheering me on, sorry I was pretty locked in but it means a lot I LOVE THIS CITY! WE GO AGAIN!!
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I've been using runna for about two months as i'm getting back into running. Let me tell you I barely would trust it to get me to a 10k aerobically fit. I can't imagine what a full marathon plan looks like for these people.