Leah Falland calls out Rojo and Wojo

I officially listened to the podcast. My initial reaction was correct. She is a hypocrite as she fat shamed her own pet hamster on this podcast. She is overly exaggerating the amount of negative comments on LRC. Sure they exist, but most are taken out of context and many are made with some sort of adolescent humor associated with them. If she was having mental health issues she shouldn’t be on LRC as it not a place to seek comfort and support.

Lastly, all the members of this podcast use the word ‘Like’ obsessively to the point of almost being unlistenable.

olymaratrialstop100 wrote:

She had a number of serious injuries and she mentions her hormone levels got all out of whack. For someone with all that going on, reading these boards and seeing negative posts about her from people who don't know her at all and probably aren't that well informed on women's running would be enough to make anyone kind of incensed.

Well then she is in luck because I still don't know who Leah Falland is or care to and she was not good enough for this board to even have discussed her. Seems like she just wanted to attack the boards to gain attention for herself in public.

No Fat Dudes wrote:

olymaratrialstop100 wrote:

She had a number of serious injuries and she mentions her hormone levels got all out of whack. For someone with all that going on, reading these boards and seeing negative posts about her from people who don't know her at all and probably aren't that well informed on women's running would be enough to make anyone kind of incensed.

Well then she is in luck because I still don't know who Leah Falland is or care to and she was not good enough for this board to even have discussed her. Seems like she just wanted to attack the boards to gain attention for herself in public.

I agree that I also was unaware of who she was before this summer when many in the track community were talking about her comeback. Apparently, she was a steeple stand-out with the last name O'Connor out of Michigan State back in the day. I will say that I was surprised at the level of distaste she had for the boards which clearly is born out of her own experience reading about herself on them... someone must have wrote something harsh but then again that isn't surprising. On the other hand, I do not think she would use this terrible podcast with its poorly-spoken hosts as the vehicle to "gain attention for herself in public." I would like to note that I appreciate the effort of the hosts and their willingness to speak on little-discussed topics in running but, yes, lets just say that they shouldn't quit their day jobs.

Three pages of discussion and the OP has yet to provide a quote or a link to the alleged comments.

Ten Brue wrote:

Leah Falland. Ring a bell? NCAA indoor mile and steeplechase champion? Olympic trials contender this year?

WTF? I'm supposed to know or care about every NCAA scrub athlete now from a half decade ago?

Let me know when she sets some WRs. She doesn't even have a Wikipedia for Pete's sake. Her only claim to relevance seems to be this thread.

dude. I linked the youtube link to the podcast.

and you can find it on spotify.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTOd_AANl1s&t=29s

6/10 troll.

If you were even a casual US track fan you would have seen her compete this season at the US trials.

Ten Brue. wrote:

dude. I linked the youtube link to the podcast.

and you can find it on spotify.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTOd_AANl1s&t=29s

That room looks like it smells disgusting.

Ten Brue. wrote:

6/10 troll.

If you were even a casual US track fan you would have seen her compete this season at the US trials.

I guess I'm not a casual track fan because I don't remember the field from every race...

You and Leah seem to think that she's an actual celebrity which says a lot more about you than me. I have other stuff to worry about. Like what happened to Tom Brady's 600th touchdown ball, or if I want guac or queso as a side for my lunch tomorrow.

olymaratrialstop100 wrote:

I will say that I was surprised at the level of distaste she had for the boards which clearly is born out of her own experience reading about herself on them... someone must have wrote something harsh but then again that isn't surprising.

The only ones who would have cared to write anything about her are those 3 guys sitting to her right talking about how they have to listen to her pretentiousness day in and day out.

That thing is an hour long. Be nice if you could tell us what time she said this, because I don't think anyone in their right head is going to watch four kids sitting around an apartment awkwardly shooting the sh!t about nothing for more than a minute.

Leah is awesome.

incredible attitude, great work ethic, just wish she’d fall over less.

cool IG account too.

Ten Brue wrote:

She was on the Coffee Club podcast hoasted by On athletes Olli Hoare, George Beamish, and Morgan MacDonald. Among topics discussed was a thorough ripping of this very website

Basically, she said "F**k letsrun message boards"

Although there is clear irony in me posting from an anonymous username (I rarely use letsrun anymore after graduating from college) I think most of her points are warranted and could probably go a long way into improving this site. Specifically, how mod's let any random thread go without reasonably stepping in when 40yo HobbyJoggers start commenting on 20yo elite college women's bodies without any context.

Thoughts? Will Rojo and Wojo moderate this thread or let trolls wreak havoc below?

I don’t know who this is but I always hear this and see it posted on social media. But the irony is they are here reading it. If the really feel that way why are they even coming here?

No Fat Dudes wrote:

[quote]thoughts and prayers wrote:

Leah is awesome.

incredible attitude, great work ethic, just wish she’d fall over less.

cool IG account too.

I looked and can confirm she does have a nice variety of pictures (both running and non-running) on her Insta. Mostly non-selfies. I had written her account off after one too many dogs on her Insta stories but maybe I was too rash?

I would also like to note the recent Insta post by Kara Goucher implicitly referencing the situation by pulling on her experience as an athlete (seems to be her M.O.) and Insta stories by Peter Bromka explicitly mentioning the situation at Oregon and calling out the coaches.

Kara:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CVd1YXLJceK/

Peter: [graphic about Red-S] with text "actual resources exist for understanding body composition and performance. Sadly the a$$hole coaches are still living in decades past"