thewelshrunner & kellogs_ontherun #8 ALL IN running in the Buff; you’ll get a PB if you WANT IT enough

Kelly has been going all in on Amsterdam 26.2 training, how will the day go?

  • DNS - excuse is the usual illness or another a&e trip

  • DNS - nothing mentioned ever again

  • DNF - balls to the wall for 13mi at BQ pace and blows up

  • DNF - injury

  • By some unicorn miracle a BQ happens

  • Sub 4h

  • Just over 4h

  • 4:15

  • 4:30

  • 4:45

  • 5h

  • >5h

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Northernscumpet said:
Is the house they are in hers or his? If her ex partners are higher earners whatever they pay in child maintenance probably covers their housing costs or at least a fair chunk of it, I know it does for some of my friends in a similar situation (as in separated, not barely parenting their kids to eff about pretending running is their job) and I'm guessing the vast majority of kit and trips to races is gifted because he just has to bring out the video from London marathon once a year and people flock to him :rolleyes: I don't know how many people he is coaching but there's also the possibility he isn't exactly managing his "business" in a totally above board way.
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Doesn't he charge £75/month for coaching - doesn't need that many people to get a decent income (although this will be drastically reduced over the next couple of months) and some of those ads/partnerships will probably come with a reasonable pay day.
 
He doesn’t advertise his rates but apparently he teaches about recovery, rest and nutrition!!!
 

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This compulsion to fly off to “big” events blows my mind. The hassle (especially living miles from airports as they do), the stress with connections and potentially shitty food & sleep options and the fucking environmental impact. Not to mention expense. Fair enough fly off for the biggie / target race but now in uk there’s loads of small, decent marathons perfect for a warm up - not that you need to warm up for a marathon by, er, running a marathon.
 
He moved into her rental, then they moved together into their own rental. They don’t own their home.

EC1A said:
It’s got to be her house, he’s got sponger stamped all over his forehead
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Northernscumpet said:
Is the house they are in hers or his? If her ex partners are higher earners whatever they pay in child maintenance probably covers their housing costs or at least a fair chunk of it, I know it does for some of my friends in a similar situation (as in separated, not barely parenting their kids to eff about pretending running is their job) and I'm guessing the vast majority of kit and trips to races is gifted because he just has to bring out the video from London marathon once a year and people flock to him :rolleyes: I don't know how many people he is coaching but there's also the possibility he isn't exactly managing his "business" in a totally above board way.
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Sharpsloth said:
He moved into her rental, then they moved together into their own rental. They don’t own their home.
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Ahh OK, I wasn't sure but I'd assume that a fair chunk of rent will be covered by any child maintenance then he'll earn whatever off of "coaching" and their ads. Certainly not the sort of earnings that are going to work out as they get older anyway...poor souls will have to find a proper job.
 
Northernscumpet said:
Ahh OK, I wasn't sure but I'd assume that a fair chunk of rent will be covered by any child maintenance then he'll earn whatever off of "coaching" and their ads. Certainly not the sort of earnings that are going to work out as they get older anyway...poor souls will have to find a proper job.
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No pension, no house, do they think this cash cow is going to last forever? The kids will turn 18 and the money will stop flowing, the Insta lifestyle is not sustainable. I mean, if, and that's a big if, Kelly gets a BQ, what does she do then? That's been her life for 2 years, probably the next 5 years too 😂. She knows she's not going to do it as she's stopped hashtagging #BQforPreston.
 
He's the weirdest online coach, didn't exactly use his platform to advertise?! Most of these online coaches use their platform as much as poss to push their services, share glowing feedback received or big PBs from their clients. We see non of that from Titts, an odd business model.
Agree, they have no long term security, give it 10 years and no more child maintenance and probably no more insta career. Once he's a no one on insta and the London "kind" action forgotten, who on earth would pay to be coached by him?! As for Kelly, I'm not sure I've known her to have a job despite the fact all her kids were school age before she fell pg with Harri.
 
Northernscumpet said:
Ahh OK, I wasn't sure but I'd assume that a fair chunk of rent will be covered by any child maintenance then he'll earn whatever off of "coaching" and their ads. Certainly not the sort of earnings that are going to work out as they get older anyway...poor souls will have to find a proper job.
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They might get housing benefit? He might be earning a bit from coaching but is she claiming as a stay at home parent?
 
Lemming312 said:
No pension, no house, do they think this cash cow is going to last forever? The kids will turn 18 and the money will stop flowing, the Insta lifestyle is not sustainable. I mean, if, and that's a big if, Kelly gets a BQ, what does she do then? That's been her life for 2 years, probably the next 5 years too 😂. She knows she's not going to do it as she's stopped hashtagging #BQforPreston.
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A BQ is what, 3:35? Considering the WR is 2:14, I’m quite sure *if* she got a BQ then her life wouldn’t change in the slightest.
 
the_chafe_is_real said:
I don’t think she really wants to BQ because then they have to pay for their own airfare and hotels. She wants it gifted. They got sent to Berlin as a gift and she was storying about the room and where the hotel was. Never saw any of that for Amsterdam.
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She definitely wants it as a gift, but using her son as a reason leaves a sick taste in my mouth
 
the_chafe_is_real said:
She eats junk, she runs junk. None of it makes sense, especially for someone who literally only has running in their life.
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Do you think it might be a show for Instagram, like it makes her relatable somehow? Not sure if you’re familiar with Nuttyfoodiefitness - she’s a Gymshark influencer with six pack abs whose whole personality is doing binge eating junk food challenges and eating enormous portions of food, yet she’s still skinny as a stick. I can’t believe she eats as bad as she makes out all the time, as it feels so performative (and surely she’d have gained loads of weight otherwise). Perhaps Kelly is like this to a lower degree?
 
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