London Marathon - YouTubers Getting Destroyed

If you didn’t know what you were doing, then why did you cover your race number with your hand in the race photos, and why did you take off your race bib right after the run and crop it out of the pictures? Why are you deleting comments on Instagram that criticize you? If it were just ignorance, I’d understand — but it feels like you knew exactly what you were doing and were trying not to get caught. And if you’re disqualified, then 2:47 is not your PR, it's still 2:50, so better to clean your bio.

I’d recommend addressing this on your Instagram account too. After all, you cover the good and bad days. Statement above hits the nail on the head. Why did you remove your bib? Sadly it’s not adding up.

Sort of a half apology.

Fair play for apologising. But I don't believe for one second that you weren't fully aware in advance. Apologising whilst continuing to deliberately deceive massively devalues the apology. Most on insta will buy it though so you'll probably come through unscythed.

Mr Trees will have known what you were doing. Shame on him too. Fraud

Fair enough but if you didn't realise it would be an issue why have you obviously (and deliberately) made an effort to not post any photos with the bib visible on your social media either by cropping it out or removing it immediately after the race and why have you deleted comments on your social media calling it out too?

It's not that people think you are trying to cosplay as a championship runner, it's the fact that the decision to bib mule and then cover it up shows a level of blatant disregard to the integrity of the sport doesn't it. It isn't just you, but people are starting to grow very tired of the influencer shtick of pretending the rules don't apply to them (see Matt Choi).

You're a coach right? Pretty sure running as another person (let alone in a London marathon champ start) constitutes a breach of the England Athletics rules too and may qualify as serious misconduct. Would you encourage someone you coach to follow in these footsteps?

If you run it backwards next year we will forgive you

I'm sorry, I just don't buy it.

You KNEW EXACTLY what you were doing, but you thought you could get away with it.

You consciously made the decision to bib mule and then tried to cover it up by hiding your bib in photos and removing your bib for IG posts after the race. It is blatant. Do you think we are schmucks?

Regardless of your narrative, rules are rules and LME clearly states that you should be banned for a period of 5 years. I'm sorry, but this is the least that you deserve.

Lets Run is hardly your audience, so if you are genuinely sorry then you should be addressing and informing to your actual audience on IG. Lets see you do that and then we can talk...

I completely agree. This is the most disingenuous apology I’ve ever read. You (and your friends) know the rules as you’ve been around people who have qualified for champs consistently for a number of years, aka, Tommy Trees. If anything, your apology and self report has muddied the waters further.

Your friend must have gone and picked up the number for you from the expo. The whole thing was so well choreographed, it’s impossible to plead ignorance. Your Instagram and TikTok audience may be naive enough to believe you, but it’s not good enough.

Have you told On too? Sure they’ll be thrilled about having an ambassador bringing the brand into dispute. Shame bud. Action have consequences. If I were your coaching client, I wouldn’t be trusting you anymore.

Then why did you remove the bib at the end/hide it from photographers along the course?

What does this mean? Did they assign you a starting place then withdraw it from you, or did you just not qualify for a starting place but felt you 'deserved' one?

Whilst LME have rules, ONs ambassador programme likely don't have the same set. It's about getting product in front of as many eyes as possible, so that's up to them. A following is still a following.

No such thing as bad publicly? I also don't think it reflects badly on the brand as a layperson. Just the athlete

100% the latter... ones entry does not simply 'fall through'.... Josh Jogs thought he was better than everyone else that enters the ballot year after year, receiving rejection after rejection. Thought he could play the system, use it to make some coin from his new athletes.

Very confident you’re a coach with zero England Athletics qualifications too to be able to coach 1:1, like your mates Trees and Briggs. No qualifications, no insurance and a bib mule.

Thanks for giving back to the sport. Nice.

I think the covering up of your BIB makes this whole apology a lie and disengenous.

We all make mistakes. Probably didn't realise the magnitude of the length people go to, to uphold the rules when they feel wronged. Everyone's a detective these days.

It's not the end of world. If/when you get a reply I'd be intreged to know the sanction for you and Harry.

Regarding simple BIB mulling, never done it myself (as I want the time on run britain) but lots friends do it. I don't actually think that alone is crime of the century. The championship entry, London marathon and you being an influencer has made it worse that what it really is (something that alot of people in running community are fine with).

Well-stated. Actions, not words.

And he's so humble, he's talked about how he sometimes doesn't like running and was just curious early on about how this training would go based on his bike experience.

I'd buy merch from him if he did drop it.

He's almost as fast as Seth DeMoor w/far less experience, but is FAR more humble.

SirPoopy hats for the win. He even leaned into that and found a real sirpoopy guy at London. LOL

Never heard of Mary until now. She must be a UK-based one? She had a good point about heat in one of her recaps.

If it had been 4degrees she still would have ended up with the same result based off her pacing. Her first 5k was at sub 2:40 pace.

She is also highly insufferable. She 'can't work out' what went wrong and is devastated as she believes the marathon owed her 2:50.

Hi, I didn't know the rules so I didn't bother checking, I just did what I wanted to. So sorry.