Matt Choi ran 2 marathons across 2 continents in 6 days

So did Ben Parkes.

That's 4 marathon performances between two runners. All 4 were bad.

Thats what you get for focusing on filming yourself and gimmicks instead of training properly.

And looked hot af while doing it!

Sub-elite?????

3:27 and 3:23 for a 29 year old man isn't subelite. Choi is obnoxious, with his bikes on the course, etc.

Its annoying that he gets bibs into these races. I worked hard and ran fast to get into Boston and I keep getting denied for London

The game plan for this clown and some other running influencers is to get in decent marathon shape (not trying to pace-shame, but barely sub-3 for a former college athlete in his 20s is decent shape at best). Then, instead of actually training to become a better runner, you just do as many marathons as possible at a casual pace +1min / mile above your marathon pace. Make a bunch of content showing how easy it is for you, and the people who are pushing hard to run sub-4 are fooled into thinking you're some monster of an athlete.

I'm sorry, but if you need to watch someone like this in order to feel inspired to run, then maybe running just isn't for you.

I think he meant

sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-elite but wanted to save time (as did I, or I would have typed "sub" many more times).

I'm happy to hear my 41 year old dad who ran 2:57 and works 50 hours a week is counted as sub elite! Or maybe even elite since this is much faster than a sub elite!

As a younger lad, I raced Boston in sub 3 and then paced a marathon that Saturday in 3:20. I thought I was pretty hot stuff - right until I found out that our 3:10 pacer had just raced a 50 miler and finished in the top 10 or so of a very competitive race.

Sub-elite indeed. A buddy once described us as the back-of-the-front-of-the-pack. We're fast enough to finish relatively high so we definitely aren't mid-packers, but we also know there are a LOT of people way faster, way more impressive.

So did Ben Johnson. 2:56 in Boston and 2:45 in London.

Matt Choi is the Golden Corral Buffet of running. He impresses people that think all-you-can-eat cafeteria food is somehow superior to a Michelin starred restaurant simply because you can gorge large portions of it. True connoisseurs know better.

A m50 in my club,last year came top 7 in his age group in Boston and London,wouldn't know unless you knew as he doesn't mention it,just cracks on.

Good lord dude... why can't people feel inspired to run a marathon by watching his content? Don't we want the sport of running to grow and gain popularity? What's wrong with him showcasing a marathon on IG?

I'm glad people are finding inspiration from this and hopefully they're using that inspiration productively, but I would bet that most people running decent mileage who are comfortably sub-3 could run two marathons in a week that are 25-30 mins off their actual fitness. Most people wouldn't, and the travel between the two is probably the harder part to handle, but if you're running 60-70mpw this shouldn't be that difficult.