Marathon Investigation Calls Out Instagram Influencer Matt Choi AGAIN

Indeed, a dude on an electric bike (more like a motorcycle looking) was following him yesterday in Austin TX. He was pretty aggressively riding around Matt Choi, but it seems there was plenty of room to do so. However, I'm guessing it's against the rules to have someone following next to you on a bicycle through out the race.

He and I were both in the Houston marathon's Corral A, which is the released after the elites and sub-elites. So folks hoping to BQ, go sub-3, or faster. I pulled away from him quickly, so we weren't together long, but he had a cyclist alongside there as well.

I imagine the cyclist negatively impacted others similarly to what was written in the twitter post if the person stayed alongside Choi for a prolonged period. At Houston, the full and half split apart late, so it's uniquely crowded in the beginning.

Wishing other running media people would call him out on his bs. Especially believe in the run , kofuzi and Ben Johnson who seem to support him, probably naively. Never met a more circlejerking hobby jogger in my life

Surprised he didn't run sub 3hrs? Is the Austin course much tougher than Houston?

Austin has slightly more elevation change for the marathon distance compared to Houston. It has a lot more turnaround points that can impact pacing, in my opinion. Houston has one 180-degree turn that causes you to slow down, but the rest are more gradual and in my view don't impact pacing.

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Good to see that people are finally calling her out in the comments

He is your typical entitled influencer prick. Nothing will faze him because he needs those clicks to get paid so he doesn't have to go to work. This is the norm with this younger generation. Anything for attention and must record everything. So don't take it personally. Since when is a full time runner running a 3 hour marathon even a big deal?

So solution is to flag all his post on social media. Sub 3 used to a big deal before the carbon era

Dude seems to be smokescreening it today by releasing a crapload of unnecessary recap reels, lol

Never heard of this guy. On a scale of old school Sage Canada (beated Anton Krupicka era) to Kofuzi/musclehead Nick Symmonds, how fast is he?

He broke 3:00 by 2-3 mins twice I think. Austin he got cramps and walked some, 3:17.

Caitlyn Miller will beat him at Boston

Dude is a douche through and through. I wish they would DQ for this...it's unfair to everyone else on the course that they have to deal with this guy's BS.

not really.

A DQ won't do anything, he'll keep talking about his race without mentioning the DQ, The runners his team impeded will still have been impeded.

Marathon's's need to stop this crap on the course while it's happening, get to those bikers and physically pull them off the course if they have to.

They might not want to do that, an influencer running their marathon might lead to more people running it next year. If people that actually ran the race complained to the RD and told him they would stop running this race if this is going to be allowed to continue, that would make a difference.

ITT: Miserable LR boomers mad that somebody is having a good time.

Enough with these insufferable running "influencers" making absolutely everything about them. Dude is a clown and should be banned from races.

This marathon investigation guy must be a real miserable sob lol

It would fun to watch him and Kofuzi race. That would be funny. Kofuzi with his selfie stick and this guy with his bicycle stick. Choi i more of Nick Bare's assistant. Not as big and not as fast.