Running Instagrammers #2 Wannabe Elite Wednesday, (over)Training Thursday, Fracture Clinic Friday

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MoreFeeb said:
Yeah Asics Frontbummers did bin her, but Big Carl they kept on regardless of everything he got up to, his Asics profile is a total work of fiction compared to the original list of races he submitted to get the sweet gig. They kept on the Winkle Pic taker too. So she was a bit hard done by.

Can't wait for the class of 2022, and the Brooks Happy Clapper equivalent. Diversity it is not. They should do calendars.
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I wasn't aware of any Big Carl drama can someone fill me in? He seems to have dropped off the planet?
 
irunforfun said:
How do they have time to do all this “training” and coffees and cake dates? And then spend weekends away from their families. Do none of them work?
On a different note, an EA coach posted about running every day this week as she is coaching all weekend but it’s ok as she’ll be doing lots of drills and exercises. Having previously said she had “earned” her (minuscule) Chinese from running. Great example to all her underweight wannabe coaches (PMG, runvickirun etc).
It’s all so messed up and just terrible messages to all the people who have normal lives and run, don’t have all the money for all the gear, aren’t running to control weight/achieve influencer status/for online adoration and praise. I want there to be a “real life running community” 🤔
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I unfollow people who burn to earn or harp on about rewarding themselves with food. Just eat what you want ffs.
 
snapdrag0n said:
Thing is, a lot of these people will bang on about nutrition (often as an AD, eg Charlie and recovery shakes, others with various gels and what not). Then yeah, pot kettle black it when they share burning to earn. I wouldn’t trust any of them with dietary advice!
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To be honest, it makes me feel sorry for them.

If you are running because you feel guilty that you ate the cookie that was part of a fun activity that you did with your child then you are running for the wrong reason. If you are running ultras so you can eat pizza “guilt free” then you are running ultras for the wrong reason. If you are doing all these PT sessions because you haven’t the motivation to run long anymore and you think you still need to burn calories and you have heard that doing weights “does something to your metabolism” you are doing PT for the wrong reason.

Call us whatever you want. We have all been where you are in some way, shape or form, we just don’t ask for sympathy, freebies or likes in sharing our battles online with the world and his wife.
 
It makes me so mad to see tit like that

I track calories to ensure I eat enough as when I up the distance sometimes I do forget to increase my calories but as soon as I know what normal feels like, I stop tracking and go by feel

I don't have the mental energy to calorie count all the time and I bloody love cheesecake and don't wanna see that on MFP 🤷‍♀️
 
Just watching Ben Parkes doing a 10 mile challenge in his latest video and it’s off road on gravel tracks, very uneven and he’s wearing his valorflys. Now I like to watch and follow Ben and his reviews are usually honest, but he doesn’t complain and email angry emails to company’s when his shoes have fallen apart, but what does he expect wearing a super shoe on a trail pathway 🤷🏽‍♀️
 
instaclowns said:
Just watching Ben Parkes doing a 10 mile challenge in his latest video and it’s off road on gravel tracks, very uneven and he’s wearing his valorflys. Now I like to watch and follow Ben and his reviews are usually honest, but he doesn’t complain and email angry emails to company’s when his shoes have fallen apart, but what does he expect wearing a super shoe on a trail pathway 🤷🏽‍♀️
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It's a compact road with a bit of grit on it? If Kipchoge runs the rugged roads of Iten in his then I'm sure a loop in Longmoor won't be much of an issue. Didn't look that uneven, either?
 
WR runs everywhere in his Nikes (including the woody hill trails that he just loooovvvvveeeessss so much) and they seem fine.

😉

(or maybe he gets gifted a new pair after he wrecks them doing stupid stuff to them)

(I know this doesn’t apply to Ben so I apologise for my poor humour- I really hate those Nikes- everyone around me wears them for running normal runs. What happened to just running normally?)
 
I forgot my cool down shoes when I wore my Vaporflys for a race this summer and had to cool down on a gravely track in them. I about broke my ankles and they were so full of stone holes, I don’t know how people run on anything that isn’t gleaming fresh tarmac in them. Got rid now, can’t be doing with them
 
Wonder who this thread is about?



Brags about top 3 finishes but doesn't deliver, Ironman references, running 17 miles with pneumonia/COVID. Sounds like a few overachievers we know.
 
Lastqueenofscotland said:
I wasn't aware of any Big Carl drama can someone fill me in? He seems to have dropped off the planet?
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Big Carl Running. Started as a bit of a genuine inspiration TBF, and looked like a nice guy, lost a tonne of weight, had some issues as a kid took up running. Got in with a good crowd who ran with him a lot, coached him, got him to Berlin marathon and he ran it, slowly but he ran it. Then he got a bit big for his boots, a table at the National Running Show, ASICS frontrunner, all the freebies, Runnersworld article, but what he showed online wasn't real. He took his timing chip off so his time was hidden, cheated at some, cheated at parkruns (wtf???), spent ages bigging up races then pulled out of almost all. His blog was a work of fiction. Famously took a photo of a 10 mile marker of a there and back race, but was only at mile 1 and then pulled out but never admitted to it. Obsessed with beating the sweeper at races so pushed forward to earlier waves and at Chicago got a disability place to start an hour ahead of the race despite never using it as an excuse before. He was the Kelloggs year at ASICS I think. Is Carl Plays Golf now but being overweight and slow isn't anything special in the golfing world so his constantly tagging brands isn't gonna get him anything. Could have been a great influence for positivity but the influencer lifestyle kinda broke him and he quit running and the community.

This is the one to avoid is he comes knocking

www.bbc.co.uk

Cancer lie military clerk Simon Buckden jailed

A former military clerk who lied about having cancer to swindle victims out of money and services worth more than £7,500 is jailed for 16 months.
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started UKmarathonchat on twitter, said he was special forces, which was a lie, said he had cancer, which was a lie, stole a tonne of money from a lot of people and was very vicious in the DMs. Totally ruined a lot of people's lives and they are still suffering. He has been released apparently and people are flagging is SM accounts when they pop up.

A dick pic from Fudgie is one thing, but if this guy DMs you delete and block straight away.
 
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