The Athlete Special

I’ve long been a fan and defender of his but this video is a new low, sadly.

What happened to the sub 14 project?

LAME!!!

I knew the grumpy boomers here would be triggered by this one haha

- avoiding real training again
- cant hold 6:00/M even in next%'s
- keeps merging into a bad Russian accent

literally what was the point

The quitting of the sub-14 thing really grinds my gears because he used it to get viewers engaged then just completely ditched it when he realised he's not dedicated enough to even get close to it.

He’s turning into Nick Symmonds but without the fast PRs or charisma. Next he’s gonna be talking about trying to break 30 in the 10k before he turns 30 (which isn’t that far away lmao)

I for one liked it. He ran the workout he said he was going to do, he's having fun, he did a much better ad read/integration than usual, and I'm sure that it made the day of lots of folks around the lake.

He should just get a proper job already and quit embarrassing himself. Youtubers will sacrifice any and all self-respect they have just to get a bunch of drooling imbeciles in the comments saying stuff like "GREAT CONTENT FIRE EMOJI FIRE EMOJI CRYING EMOJI".

I honestly enjoyed that video

I don't get why so many running influencers want to torment themselves by setting lofty goals while at the same time not in a great place in their running. Its the equivalent of your friend that keep saying they are going to start running 5x a week each spring. It must be horrible to have that goal that they probably understand they won't reach, with so many eyes on them. Every one of those run a marathon/hm/10k/5k/1500 below xx:xx fails - at least if its an ambitious goal.

Maybe it won't draw as many clicks but more process oriented goals would be so much better. "I'm gonna start running x times a week again!" "Here is me ramping up to yy mileage, follow along!". "For this marathon I am going to have a negative split and feel like I came within 95% of what I could that day".

Watching/hearing some influencer time and time again miss their goal, come with excuses etc is the worst form of entertainment, and I avoid them for all cost.

Why should he get a "proper job?" Why does he need to follow some sort of path that you deem acceptable? What a weird thing to care about.

Just go to law school already.

I think what's most concerning is how little he runs. Seemingly no job, yet he's only putting up 65 mile weeks, if that. If he really cared then he'd be running much more--does he have any idea how many college students run 20+ more miles than him per week despite being in the classroom all day?

Is this a serious question? Maybe because he's running around in a Mario suit? If that isn't a wake up call, then I don't know what is.

This has nothing to do with what is "acceptable", that's a meaningless word to me. It's about a person not reducing themselves to a circus clown.

He’s trying to do Nick Symmonds type videos with only 70,000 followers. He probably has no clue now what he wants to do since he keeps changing goals and training plans constantly. The last few videos definitely show that.

In all seriousness I wasnt being rhetorical here, anyone know what happened to the sub 14 thing? Is it still on or did he just give up after a few weeks? If so thats lame

I actually found this video somewhat entertaining. Chill out Letsrun purists

It looks like his professional running gig is about over. He just doesn't know it yet. Now he just wants to get enough subscribers so that he can get better ad revenue so he can continue being a content creator.