The problem is though, she's in a bunch of photos in her '400 miles' T-shirt.
The problem is though, she's in a bunch of photos in her '400 miles' T-shirt.
How many of the 400 miles did Amazing Amy actually run?
Maybe it was 400 selfies in 14 days...?
Amy forever wrote:
How many of the 400 miles did Amazing Amy actually run?
She is on 343km= 213 miles.
She is on 343km= 213 miles.
213 miles = 15.2 miles per day. That is AMAZING especially since she had to haul all her 400 mile T Shirts around too.
Is that a new World Record?
Strava novice wrote:
So I wanted to strip it all back! Do something that involved doing what I love to do..having fun, running some miles, seeing new places and inspiring a few more people along the way with no plan as such, no support, nobody to carry my kit, nobody to answer to, no daily mileage to meet!
The thing is, she did have daily mileage to meet, as published on her website:
Run Island.
4 Islands…
400 miles…
14 days…
On 30 September, Amy will be heading over to the Balearic Islands to run both cross-country and the coastlines of all four islands. Amy will be covering the distance on foot and will travel from island to island by ferry and plane.
The adventure will begin on the beautiful island of Formentera, the smallest island – just 12 miles long.
Amy will run from top to bottom in one day, starting and finishing on 1 October before she heads over to Ibiza by ferry.
Ibiza will be the second longest run, where Amy will be running around the island’s coastline covering 140 miles over a four-day period.
She will then be getting a boat from Ibiza to Palma, Mallorca, where she’ll be running cross-country from one side of the island to the other, finishing in Alcudia.
This run will consist of 40 miles’ road running, where Amy will start and finish on the same day.
Finally, from Alcudia Amy will then travel to Menorca where she will take on the final and longest leg, covering 185 miles over 6 days and averaging 30 miles a day.
She's now retrospectively removed all mileage claims from her description of the challenge:
Amy Hughes
EVENTS & CHALLENGES
RUN ISLAND.
4 ISLANDS IN 14 DAYS…
On 30 September, Amy will be heading over to the Balearic Islands to run both cross-country and the coastlines of all four islands. Amy will be covering the distance on foot and will travel from island to island by ferry and plane.
The adventure will begin on the beautiful island of Formentera, the smallest island.
Amy will run from top to bottom in one day, before she heads over to Ibiza by ferry.
Ibiza will be the second longest run, where Amy will be running around the island’s coastline over a four-day period.
She will then be getting a boat from Ibiza to Palma, Mallorca, where she’ll be running cross-country from one side of the island to the other, finishing in Alcudia.
Finally, from Alcudia, Amy will then travel to Menorca where she will take on the final and longest leg, running around the island over six days.
I find it amusing that it's been changed after the fact but is still written in the future tense. She must think her followers are as thick as shit.
http://amyhughes53.co.uk/events-challenges/
Well done for showing the change in mileage. I thought it originally said the but was not sure.
No mention either of any difficulties causing the run to be shorter either. This is not the norm either most people running ultras share their DNF'S and disappointments and do not white wash history.
Could you really trust someone like that to self record 53 marathons?
ukathleticscoach wrote:
Could you really trust someone like that to self record 53 marathons?
Of course not. I think we should consider all of the achievements unsubstantiated, at best.
This one we do know was a failure.
This particular escapade seems to be geared to entertaining "daddy".
To me Amy is symptomatic of the modern social media obsessed youth. She is more interested in generating a following on social media before actually achieving anything of note. To aid in this she has manufactured the persona / brand of an accomplished multiday ultra runner without actually providing any evidence that she completed any of feats claimed. She uses this ‘brand’ to garner gullible and naïve followers which in turn, leads to an increased profile for her charity and ultimately, increased revenue for the charity. I suspect that if she was a chubby 53 year old, bald bloke she would have far less followers.
I think she’s slowly learning the hard way that, if you stick your head above the parapet, make outlandish claims, you open yourself to increased scrutiny. My gut feeling was that the 400 in 14 days challenge was more about her being able to claim that she is a decent ultra runner. Hence setting up a Strava account to record the data. It became very evident very quickly to all who observed the stunt and herself that she was woefully underprepared for the challenge. Rather than validating her ultra running credentials it undermined them further (if that was possible). This is why the website subtly changed from 400 in 14 Days to 4 Islands in 14 Days.
Given that her only known source of income is the charity and whatever little scraps she gets from sponsors (which will not be much) I would think that she’d be better off either knuckling down, doing some serious training and, nailing some ultra runs. However, I know several female ultra runners who compete at the National level and can tell you, Amy is a L-O-N-G way off their ability.
EDIT:
Given that her only known source of income is the charity and whatever little scraps she gets from sponsors (which will not be much) I would think that she’d be better off either knuckling down, doing some serious training and, nailing some ultra runs or giving up and getting a real job.
I know several female ultra runners who compete at the National level and can tell you, Amy is a L-O-N-G way off their ability
If she runs a legitimate ultramarathon (50k+) next year in the UK, I'll donate twice the entry fee in her name to Army of Angels.
SocialWhore wrote:
To me Amy is symptomatic of the modern social media obsessed youth. She is more interested in generating a following on social media before actually achieving anything of note. To aid in this she has manufactured the persona / brand of an accomplished multiday ultra runner without actually providing any evidence that she completed any of feats claimed. She uses this ‘brand’ to garner gullible and naïve followers which in turn, leads to an increased profile for her charity and ultimately, increased revenue for the charity. I suspect that if she was a chubby 53 year old, bald bloke she would have far less followers.
I think she’s slowly learning the hard way that, if you stick your head above the parapet, make outlandish claims, you open yourself to increased scrutiny. My gut feeling was that the 400 in 14 days challenge was more about her being able to claim that she is a decent ultra runner. Hence setting up a Strava account to record the data. It became very evident very quickly to all who observed the stunt and herself that she was woefully underprepared for the challenge. Rather than validating her ultra running credentials it undermined them further (if that was possible). This is why the website subtly changed from 400 in 14 Days to 4 Islands in 14 Days.
Given that her only known source of income is the charity and whatever little scraps she gets from sponsors (which will not be much) I would think that she’d be better off either knuckling down, doing some serious training and, nailing some ultra runs. However, I know several female ultra runners who compete at the National level and can tell you, Amy is a L-O-N-G way off their ability.
Some very astute observations of the new, 'social media' world of fitness out there. Social media following is way more important to potential corporate sponsorship, than actual accomplishment in the field. A sad state of affairs, but the real (corporate) world, unfortunately.
I don't condone the team behaviour and WR deceit, but just to play devils advocate slightly, I believe Amy is a qualified PT, so probably earns a reasonable amount through that, in addition to the charity funding. She, and Dave also live in Wilmslow in Cheshire, which to my mind, means they weren't short on cash beforehand for whatever reason.
In my opinion, she is a very good social media runner, but undermined her own good work with cringeworthy, false world record stunts she didn't even need.
Cool video wrote:
Some very astute observations of the new, 'social media' world of fitness out there. Social media following is way more important to potential corporate sponsorship, than actual accomplishment in the field. A sad state of affairs, but the real (corporate) world, unfortunately.
I don't condone the team behaviour and WR deceit, but just to play devils advocate slightly, I believe Amy is a qualified PT, so probably earns a reasonable amount through that, in addition to the charity funding. She, and Dave also live in Wilmslow in Cheshire, which to my mind, means they weren't short on cash beforehand for whatever reason.
In my opinion, she is a very good social media runner, but undermined her own good work with cringeworthy, false world record stunts she didn't even need.
I still don't see her appeal to sponsors. She doesn't have a huge following and I just don't think she's attractive.
Her face isn't attractive at all. I don't see the appeal.
You do know you can "qualify as a PT" by doing a cheap 6 week course.
Not all PT qualifications are the same.
Not every house in Wilmslow is a mansion. There are council houses there.
Though her accent doesn't sound chav.
I think the dad may have money though.
I have no idea who her fanboys are on social media. I have no mutual friends with any of them on facebook, which suggests none are runners.
Without the world record stunts no one at all would have been interested in her as that's all she has - she never enters ultras.
"In my opinion, she is a very good social media runner, but undermined her own good work with cringeworthy, false world record stunts she didn't even need."
I'm not sure I'd classify her as a very good social media runner, or even good. To me she's an average social media runner, I've looked through her account and from what I see, most posts are just pout face selfies, a small amount are talking about running and activity, very few are actually of her running, training or racing.
In relation to income from her PT work...I would suspect that this isn't a huge income, all the PT's I know just about scrape a living if they work 7 days a week. Given she's such a social media addict I would assume that any PT work would be all over her social media profile(s) and, I see very little evidence of that.
I stand by the fact that I believe the '400 in 14 Days' stunt run was more about her wanting to validate her ability as a multi-day ultra runner and prove her doubters wrong. If it had been successful she would of probably used the Strava data to support her previous stunt run claims. However, it became painfully obvious to all after the first day that she would never be able to do the actually 400 miles claimed hence, a subtle change to the website changing the challenge to '4 Islands in 14 Days'. Not sure what she intends to do with the "400 in 14 Days" hoodie she was wearing...!
SocialWhore wrote:
"In my opinion, she is a very good social media runner, but undermined her own good work with cringeworthy, false world record stunts she didn't even need."
I'm not sure I'd classify her as a very good social media runner, or even good. To me she's an average social media runner, I've looked through her account and from what I see, most posts are just pout face selfies, a small amount are talking about running and activity, very few are actually of her running, training or racing.
In relation to income from her PT work...I would suspect that this isn't a huge income, all the PT's I know just about scrape a living if they work 7 days a week. Given she's such a social media addict I would assume that any PT work would be all over her social media profile(s) and, I see very little evidence of that.
I stand by the fact that I believe the '400 in 14 Days' stunt run was more about her wanting to validate her ability as a multi-day ultra runner and prove her doubters wrong. If it had been successful she would of probably used the Strava data to support her previous stunt run claims. However, it became painfully obvious to all after the first day that she would never be able to do the actually 400 miles claimed hence, a subtle change to the website changing the challenge to '4 Islands in 14 Days'. Not sure what she intends to do with the "400 in 14 Days" hoodie she was wearing...!
Oh well, I did my best at playing devil's advocate :p
I don't disagree, her social media is self-indulgent to say the least. Definitely not directed towards the serious runner, but she does have a fairly hefty following of what looks like mostly insecure, naive and highly impressionable newbies. In fact, it's pretty clear she doesn't really know that much about the training side of things; particularly with earlier quotes of doing a 350 mile training week in preparation for the TM run. Reality would show she can barely do half of that, even when she's doing nothing else.
For the record, many of my friends are PT's and they seem to do alright out of it. I'm not saying that she is, just pointing out it's possible. Most of the PT's in the Manchester area charge between £30 and £50 p/hr. All depends on rent you pay to the gyms how much you actually make out of it.
You see not going to able to retain clients or make much in turnover if you are constantly swanning off doing challenges.
Wonder what her next challenge will be?
Exactly, you need a client base built up over years to really make good money as a PT. Nobody wants training one week a month never knowing when that will be.
Her latest on Facebook is she has just been blue ticked what the hell does that mean?
Some award for blowing you own trumpet?
SocialWhore wrote:
EDIT:
Given that her only known source of income is the charity and whatever little scraps she gets from sponsors (which will not be much) I would think that she’d be better off either knuckling down, doing some serious training and, nailing some ultra runs or giving up and getting a real job.
No reason why she cannot do both (job and run).
old skool wrote:
SocialWhore wrote:
EDIT:
Given that her only known source of income is the charity and whatever little scraps she gets from sponsors (which will not be much) I would think that she’d be better off either knuckling down, doing some serious training and, nailing some ultra runs or giving up and getting a real job.
No reason why she cannot do both (job and run).
That is the problem, these types don't want a job.
Had a very similar gf once.
When they fail in the eyes if society they try extra hard to validate their being