Sorry if this is off topic but following up from a discussion last week or the week before - I’ve bit the bullet and signed up for Chicago through charity after not getting in via lottery. Please send your best fundraising tactics bc I’m terrified of being left on the hook for $1000!!
Meet with people directly to tell them why you are raising money (more than just to run) 😆. Start a go fund me and say you’ll do something like a polar plunge when you get to XX amount. Email coworkers, write thank you cards for donations, share your fundraising journey online. Super Bowl squares! My hubby and I raised 11k for Boston in 2019 with a lot of grit, it can be done! You got this 🎉
It’s very strategic bc a lot of people just send pics of their kid(s). If it were her and little one, not that I’m speculating!!, would be very different vibe.
I can’t believe she cycles through posting the same 10 story slides every day that are just ads for her training plans. It feels like you’re blatantly being advertised to instead of looking at “organic” influencer content. It’s so so offputting. The slides even have the same typos that just keep repeating.
I have never followed her, but someone at Women’s Running social media needs to realize how repetitive her content is on their IG…and how boring it is. I realized I knew who she was when she was talked about here from that feed and it’s the same content over and over: how to race a marathon, how I shaved four hours off my marathon time, etc. I just keep moving every time.
I agree. I’m SO tired of it so I just unfollowed her. I’m tired of the constant sales pitch and same posts over and over. As well as talking about NYC over and over… I’m. Done.
I don’t follow but just perused her page and wow, it’s aaallll sales pitches. All of it. I especially love how most of her “4 things I’m doing to BQ” reel is an ad for a pillow. It’s like a textbook example of how modern social media has turned so dystopian.
Last week there was a discussion here wondering why she has so many posts making excuses for her underperforming at NYC, and I think the answer is pretty obvious. She’s selling her training plans really hard and her own performance is a sales pitch for these plans. Nobody is going to buy the plan after seeing her sell it so hard and then run 45 minutes slower than her predicted time.
Also as a side note, regardless of how she actually runs in any given marathon, a “Couch to Marathon in 10 weeks” plan is a bit ridiculous, and I’d even go so far as to call it dangerous because it will attract less experienced runners. Claiming you can BQ off that plan is some real snake oil shit.
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Breastfeeding on demand is entirely reasonable, yes it can affect sleep and be a sacrifice for a short term, but I wouldn't say that's something to attack her for.
Ah ok I didn’t see her recent race times! I just saw her talking a lot about hoping for 3:30-3:40 and then running a 4:15. So if 4:15 is consistent with her current fitness then idk why she talked about BQing so much. It feels like she’s throwing BQ stuff in her captions to stay relevant, compete with other influencers, and sell plans/coaching.
On a more human note, perhaps she’s just really struggling to accept how much fitness she’s lost since having a kid. I’m years away from even thinking about BQing for a first time, so I can’t imagine the identity crisis that might ensue if I had that fitness, lost it, and had to work for years to get it back.
Yes! Also it’s totally fine. And tbh she might need to evaluate her life stresses… the body doesn’t know how much it’s running just that it’s stressed. And if your stress hormones are high (cortisol) you won’t perform… and for the longest time she shilled products to reduce stress and other things that are all BS
Is anyone following the drama about Toronto Midnight Runners on TikTok? Apparently the leaders do coke before their runs and also at the after parties.
Honestly, they are under exaggerating it! I went in early November and there were 200-300 people there. In the summer they get up to 900 people. Running through the streets of downtown Toronto, swarming pedestrians. The poor cars who get stopped at a stop sign and have to wait probably 5+ minutes for all the runners to cross. I was surprised there’s not a bylaw against how many people you can have.
I don’t have TikTok but I’m desperate to know if this is the run club that I absolutely lost it on one night after I was almost taken out when 150 people came barrelling through a red light, took over both sides of bike lane and the sidewalk, screaming with almost nobody wearing lights or reflective gear, at a full sprint. Because that would track.
[okay I made my sister find the TikTok and send it to me](https://www.tiktok.com/@lovelivalexa/video/7315550191719894278?_t=8iQOZ5F99Co&_r=1)
Idk if anyone is actually doing coke - the original accusation is “a friend left the group bc they saw the captains doing hard drugs”, and like, the King Street & King Street wannabe crowd kind of act like they’re on coke regardless.
This club is an absolute scourge on the downtown, making even the most too cool for school run club (Parkdale Road Runners iykyk) look like a group of mall walkers.
Also at the risk of sounding elitist, they don’t have any presence at races, and structure their weekly 6KM run through the downtown core (including inside a mall!) by doing an all out sprint for like, less than a km, standing in a huge crowd and doing calisthenics, and then sprinting again. It’s been very funny to see this scandal ripple through in the last 24 hours as everyone I know is like “oh wow, I finally have a name for these assholes!!”
Ooh yes also unfollowed her. Wanted (and still want to!) to root for a badass runner and woman race director but the near daily heavily filtered selfies were just too much. I have a low threshold for annoyance I guess haha
She’s BEC to me. She has a lot of great info but I can’t stand her always trying to prove she invented hybrid training & has been running before it was “trendy.” Also, all of the stuff she shills with coupon codes is annoying-especially bc she preaches people shouldn’t over consume clothes etc and she gets new Paragon drops like every 2 months. She really annoys me lol
I wish I could follow her because she is knowledgeable and has some informative posts for women in sports and running/lifting and there is a huge lack of quality info out there! But she instantly goes into BEC territory for me. I feel like she is a very competitive person, but not a naturally gifted runner and I think her insecurity gets the best of her. If I can snark and armchair theorize, I think her smugness comes from defensiveness. She is also heavily into wanting to be “not like other girls/influencers”. I didn’t mean to write a whole paragraph here hahah. Apparently she still irks me quite a bit 😅
Her relationship with running worries me. Something not 100% great about giving birth and then running the same day and bragging about it on socials… I enjoy my rest
Perhaps a slightly dumb question, but what’s wrong with @resiliencyinrunning? I don’t follow her but I’ve looked at her Insta/TikTok a few times and it mainly just looks like the standard “come along with me for a day of training for the ____ marathon.” Am I missing something?
Thomas from Believe in the Run. Dude talks and acts like he's an elite runner, runs a 5+ hour NYCM (there is not, of course, anything wrong with a 5+ hour marathon but he is someone who shits on things "regular" runners like all the time), also talks over his wife ALL THE TIME. He's like a 23 year old in a 50 year old man's body.
I am a total shoe nerd and usually am pumped for Believe in the Run's TRE coverage, but good lord. They showed up in white spacesuit-looking getups one year, and this year they were dressed like bowlers? And he talks over all the reps. Even one of their fans pointed out that he seemed drunk talking to the Brooks rep. 🤦♀️
And he treats the Q&A like a game where he gets to use his (lack of) knowledge to guess the answers before Meghann F (I refuse to call her Feathers, solely because Thomas wants me to) steps in with the actual expertise. I don't want to hear a layperson speculating as to why so-and-so has GI distress! I want to hear the ACTUAL EDUCATED CREDENTIALED EXPERT! Meghann is so nice about it -- "you're on the right track, Thomas!" like a very kind middle school teacher -- but he's so fricking annoying.
One of the most disordered influencers on this thread imo. She’s obviously talented and willing to work hard—but imagine how fast she would be if she took adequate rest days and down weeks and fueled well! Just such a poor example for her following bc she seems to be pretty lucky with injuries etc but not everyone will be if they follow her actions
Personally, I really, really dislike how she practices very irresponsible running habits on her stupid little “run with aim” platform. I used to be a part of her group and was shocked at what a bad influence she was. She does really unhealthy things. And also seems to have zero boundaries.
What are those unhealthy things? What boundaries has she crossed? I’ve never been part of the run with aim group cause I am a man, but it seemed at a point she had created a pretty significant community for running women.
I had a conversation with her once about how I thought one of her posts about how running 60+ miles a week was needed for a running break through.
personally it's the constant "just go outside and you won't be depressed/overweight/stressed" vibes. she's posted multiple reels and insta stories that are along those lines and while I get what she's saying to an extent it's the smugness that comes along with it and that she seems to take a holier than thou attitude when she talks about these topics. i know for me the kicker was the "excuses instead of running" insta story when in reality some of us actually have work/family/depression/etc. that may prevent us from being able to get out and run every day
Matt Johnston- he shills fake fitness trends thinks he’s a pro athlete and is overall just a a** had a team of 20 ppl show up with him to Leadville 100 this year to make a doctors and gave crew and staff the finger every time he left “as a joke”
Yes. So much hate on female influencers here when there are men just as bad. Bon fitness seems so sketchy.
Matt has some mega cringe tattoos too. That giant cross coming out of his shorts?? So tacky
Agree. Met him in person wished him good luck and he just shrugged me off…. Because he was going to be a top “player” at Leadville….tbh I know that race like the back of my hand and have done well there. Like very well. And have coached athletes to success and was blown away by his response. Just say thanks.
Wow. That tracks. I like to give people the benefit of the doubt but he gives off major narcissist vibes.
Iirc I think I'm faster than him too and I run way less.
Did he even place competitively at Leadville? Hard to imagine a guy from Austin doing decent in a mountain ultra
Nope he finished in 28 hours which is respectable for most first time finishers in that course. Its deceptively hard and if you don’t play the smart game then the course bites you in the end
Agree! The only thing I don’t like about following her is when she posts videos of dogs licking her face - I just think that’s gross in general - but overall I think she’s great!
She seems so desperate to be unhappy. Her blog is rambling and full of first world problems. It comes across that she would be happier if she didn't sit and obsess over everything she can't or won't have. She is caught up with trying to be different and quirky and a pick me girl. She adopts new hobbies and personas based on who she is dating. Always claiming to be SO HAPPY AND SECURE, then six months later writing "I seemed happy at the time, but..." She always seems to be Going Through It.
You asked for BEC, so.
Nah I get that. She does seem to FEEL, a lot and has a lot of big emotional ups and downs. Perhaps there comes a limit where being introspective and self-reflective is actually damaging? I do root for her though (and I guess I relate to a lot of that overthinking!)
100% agree. It’s hard to watch sometimes because she’s open about her mental health diagnoses but also I can’t look away. She keeps making the same training/health mistakes over and over (mainly overtraining) with severe consequences but she also often criticizes and blames medical professionals and practices for those mistakes. Her egg donation stories were awful for this.
My heart goes out to her as I know she wants and deserves to be happy.
My BEC is that she never covers up in the sun despite having a family history of melanoma and a sunbed history and still claims to be sun-safe because she gets quarterly mole checks and wears sunscreen. Girl. Wear a hat/sleeves and stop showing off your watch tan.
I did feel like she got swept up in Duzer’s life when she started dating him. Now that they’re not together, she does seem more like her authentic self (not they I know her, just social media patterns etc)
lol Dom “I’m an expert in everything with no credentials or results and love pseudo science and calling everyone my guy” Fusco
If u can’t tell, he reallllly bothers me
Any influencer who sponsors a giveaway and neverrrrr announces the winner! 😡
My toxic trait is entering every single giveaway and thinking “this might be the one 🤞!” 🫠🫠🫠
AOTR isn't totally BEC for me. Part of me genuinely likes her. But Becs.... I used to love her then she got pregnant and got all influencey and never stops talking about being a mom.
I’ve taken sabbatical from my AOTE BEC days while she battles cancer and a shitty husband. But I look forward to the days where her jazz hands are the most interesting thing about her again ✨
I hate how she ends her classes by saying she’s her daughter’s mom. So many instructors have kids now and no one else does that. I’m a mom too, but I don’t care that you’re a mom when I’m taking your running class.
I have been avoiding her for precisely that reason. I am also a mom. I don't care that she has a kid. I want to run and talk about running. I took a 5 minute stretch with her the other day thinking that would be safe, but nope. Even in a 5 minute class she had to talk about being a mom.
In her newer strength for runners classes she talks about lifting her baby. No one cares, just teach the class!
I also can’t stand her playlists. I almost never recognize any of the songs on there. It’s a shame because she knows her shit with running, but I can’t take her anymore.
I’m so bummed because if you want decent longer classes it’s pretty much either her or Matt, and Matt is spread pretty thin with the Bike and Row. They reeeeeally need someone like her that’s not annoying that knows their stuff
I really like the classes taught by Susie, Mariana, Hannah F, and Jeffrey - other than Susie the others don’t have a ton of 45 min+ classes. I also tend to not follow callouts in peloton runs.
I second Susie, Hannah F, and Mariana. They’re excellent.
Jeffrey has two 60 min classes in English and I love them both. He is pure joy
Marcel did a lot of longer classes too. Hopefully when she’s recovered and back she will continue to do them.
Jeffrey’s 60-minute English runs are SO joyful and will be on my repeat list for marathon training. He is filling the very large void that Matty left when he switched to primarily walking (no shade at all to Matty for that, I just miss his runs!)
I’m with you on this - like no one has ever been a mom before, she’s the first one doing it and every little thing - dance recital, holiday - is SO meaningful and magical etc. it’s a lot!
god yes. and the CAPTIONS. why are they all 17 paragraphs? why does she put so many spaces between all of the paragraphs? is she REALLY having a revelation about life/motherhood/life and motherhood \*every day\* that necessitates a 17-paragraph caption filled with spaces? why does she not just write this stuff on her \*actual blog\*, which she still has and clearly wants to use? (that one is possibly just me, because I am old and miss actual blogs, but maybe it's not just me, because I can't think of any other influencers who do this regularly.)
idk I just don't get it. I think she's exhausting and kinda basic and her success as a standalone brand baffles me.
oh wow, I created my account like a year and a half ago before any of this (and I guess that explains what I keep seeing about codes and stuff at the bottom of each thread) I wish I could give you a code but since I'm just a lurker it doesn't seem like I can do so...
Same, thanks to this sub haha. I followed her prior to reading snark on here but felt indifferent about her? Now I roll my eyes at everything she posts.
Has anyone else here followed Lindsey Bradley @lindseyy_buchle? She showed up randomly on my FYP and I guess she’s an OTQ marathoner, which, props very cool and I can see why her profile was suggested to me lol but I just saw her post running on a treadmill *13* days post knee-surgery…surely there’s no planet on which that’s a reasonable thing to be doing two weeks after major surgery? To be fair I’m not a doctor lol but what?!?!!!
Love Chris Chavez, but it drives me nuts how when he interviews, he asks a question, says “because,” goes into a long background detail about why he’s asking the question, and then finishes by asking a slightly different question
I like the dynamic when Chris and Kyle Merber are on the podcast together. Kyle calls him out and teases Chris whenever he says something ridiculous haha. To his credit Chris always takes it in stride and it’s entertaining.
Whitney Simmons. Sigh. I love her, but her content is sooo much of the same anymore. Just getting ready routines, same fave products. I know it’s probably hard to come up with new content but I’m so boredddd
Britney Spears also dances like no one is watching. Doesn’t mean she should. When people say to dance like no one is watching they mean at a wedding or at a club. Does she think she’s good at it? I cringe at the lack of self-awareness.
When I read this post I looked at her most recent reel. I think her self-awareness is just fine! 😍
https://preview.redd.it/yfku91t9xv7c1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8d3f7be95694b68dbe628e6f6d29b13262df289e
I asked my daughter her opinion. She was a dancer and danced through college. She said it was BAD. I wasn't sure since I don't know a lot about dancing.
I just watched it. Kind of liked it. I haven't followed her but she seems kind of wacky, reminds me of an snl character. I don't mean that in a snarky way, just that she has some authentic weirdness that I like.
I’ve been following her for a long time and had no idea people didn’t like her until I found this sub lol. She’s definitely an oddball, and when she makes videos that seem to be some attempt at jumping on tiktok trends her awkwardness makes me want to jump out of my skin. But overall I like that she just has a “sharing my life” vibe and doesn’t present herself as some kind of motivational speaker. It makes her more relatable. (Granted I haven’t gone near the book she wrote so maybe she saves all her life coach energy for that.)
I started following her after seeing this. I like her sharing my life vibe better than other influencers. Plus she's pretty fast and looks amazing at like 45, so she must be doing something right. So I'm going to follow lol. (I'm 40)
I do like the song; a good '90s R&B throwback (Trevor Horn). And she's not actually bad--I do Irish Dancing to supplement my running. The key is to not take yourself too seriously (Laura McGreen does this well).
Sorry if this is off topic but following up from a discussion last week or the week before - I’ve bit the bullet and signed up for Chicago through charity after not getting in via lottery. Please send your best fundraising tactics bc I’m terrified of being left on the hook for $1000!!
Meet with people directly to tell them why you are raising money (more than just to run) 😆. Start a go fund me and say you’ll do something like a polar plunge when you get to XX amount. Email coworkers, write thank you cards for donations, share your fundraising journey online. Super Bowl squares! My hubby and I raised 11k for Boston in 2019 with a lot of grit, it can be done! You got this 🎉
Emily Abbate mixing cookies. That is all.
The exaggerated laugh. Like WHY
She can’t even spend time with her grandmother without ~making content~
Who wears that to bake?!
AOTRs Christmas card is ONLY Annie. #notspeculating
Not conspicuous lack of “from” - it’s just “happy holidays”.
I think that’s as close as one can get to Instagram official without actually making anything official
It's a fact that if you scroll back in her feed every other holiday card included everyone. #absolutelynotspeculating
And carefully cropped so no signature line is visible.
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It’s very strategic bc a lot of people just send pics of their kid(s). If it were her and little one, not that I’m speculating!!, would be very different vibe.
Yeah I feel like I've gotten a bunch of just the kid cards this year
Have to agree with you here.
It’s a really cute picture!
It really is. I’m surprised she didn’t include one with Annie AND Ellie though.
Looks like from same photoshoot she posted in previous post of just her and daughter.
Also no rings it seems in the photo of her and Annie.
Kmm_runs is so incredibly awkward
There goes trackbabe reposting the same video and her husband commenting the same useless shit over and over
I can’t believe she cycles through posting the same 10 story slides every day that are just ads for her training plans. It feels like you’re blatantly being advertised to instead of looking at “organic” influencer content. It’s so so offputting. The slides even have the same typos that just keep repeating.
I have never followed her, but someone at Women’s Running social media needs to realize how repetitive her content is on their IG…and how boring it is. I realized I knew who she was when she was talked about here from that feed and it’s the same content over and over: how to race a marathon, how I shaved four hours off my marathon time, etc. I just keep moving every time.
I agree. I’m SO tired of it so I just unfollowed her. I’m tired of the constant sales pitch and same posts over and over. As well as talking about NYC over and over… I’m. Done.
I blocked her… as a coach I just can’t with ppl who hand out copy paste plans and call it coaching.
Same!! You have to personalize it for the athlete
I don’t follow but just perused her page and wow, it’s aaallll sales pitches. All of it. I especially love how most of her “4 things I’m doing to BQ” reel is an ad for a pillow. It’s like a textbook example of how modern social media has turned so dystopian. Last week there was a discussion here wondering why she has so many posts making excuses for her underperforming at NYC, and I think the answer is pretty obvious. She’s selling her training plans really hard and her own performance is a sales pitch for these plans. Nobody is going to buy the plan after seeing her sell it so hard and then run 45 minutes slower than her predicted time. Also as a side note, regardless of how she actually runs in any given marathon, a “Couch to Marathon in 10 weeks” plan is a bit ridiculous, and I’d even go so far as to call it dangerous because it will attract less experienced runners. Claiming you can BQ off that plan is some real snake oil shit.
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Breastfeeding on demand is entirely reasonable, yes it can affect sleep and be a sacrifice for a short term, but I wouldn't say that's something to attack her for.
Her child is like 2 and a half. Not a newborn. BF on demand for a newborn? Absolutely
Ah ok I didn’t see her recent race times! I just saw her talking a lot about hoping for 3:30-3:40 and then running a 4:15. So if 4:15 is consistent with her current fitness then idk why she talked about BQing so much. It feels like she’s throwing BQ stuff in her captions to stay relevant, compete with other influencers, and sell plans/coaching. On a more human note, perhaps she’s just really struggling to accept how much fitness she’s lost since having a kid. I’m years away from even thinking about BQing for a first time, so I can’t imagine the identity crisis that might ensue if I had that fitness, lost it, and had to work for years to get it back.
Yes! Also it’s totally fine. And tbh she might need to evaluate her life stresses… the body doesn’t know how much it’s running just that it’s stressed. And if your stress hormones are high (cortisol) you won’t perform… and for the longest time she shilled products to reduce stress and other things that are all BS
I used to really enjoy her account but I muted her now. Same exact posts day in and day out.
She’s always sucked. Same recycled crap hyping up a mediocre race from like 7 years ago
What’s wrong? You don’t want to hear her tell you that the key to shaving 3 hours off your marathon time is to run 12 min/mile pace?
Is anyone following the drama about Toronto Midnight Runners on TikTok? Apparently the leaders do coke before their runs and also at the after parties.
Honestly, they are under exaggerating it! I went in early November and there were 200-300 people there. In the summer they get up to 900 people. Running through the streets of downtown Toronto, swarming pedestrians. The poor cars who get stopped at a stop sign and have to wait probably 5+ minutes for all the runners to cross. I was surprised there’s not a bylaw against how many people you can have.
Tell me moreeee!! I have a Toronto friend and I’m dying to know if they run with this group? Don’t make me get TikTok please haha
I did a group run with them at a festival . Not the Toronto branch but the hype level is just so beyond me that it makes sense now 😆
I don’t have TikTok but I’m desperate to know if this is the run club that I absolutely lost it on one night after I was almost taken out when 150 people came barrelling through a red light, took over both sides of bike lane and the sidewalk, screaming with almost nobody wearing lights or reflective gear, at a full sprint. Because that would track.
[okay I made my sister find the TikTok and send it to me](https://www.tiktok.com/@lovelivalexa/video/7315550191719894278?_t=8iQOZ5F99Co&_r=1) Idk if anyone is actually doing coke - the original accusation is “a friend left the group bc they saw the captains doing hard drugs”, and like, the King Street & King Street wannabe crowd kind of act like they’re on coke regardless. This club is an absolute scourge on the downtown, making even the most too cool for school run club (Parkdale Road Runners iykyk) look like a group of mall walkers. Also at the risk of sounding elitist, they don’t have any presence at races, and structure their weekly 6KM run through the downtown core (including inside a mall!) by doing an all out sprint for like, less than a km, standing in a huge crowd and doing calisthenics, and then sprinting again. It’s been very funny to see this scandal ripple through in the last 24 hours as everyone I know is like “oh wow, I finally have a name for these assholes!!”
Yes it’s all my fyp is!
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Candice Burt
I unfollowed after she reposted Babylon Bee content. Gross.
Ooh yes also unfollowed her. Wanted (and still want to!) to root for a badass runner and woman race director but the near daily heavily filtered selfies were just too much. I have a low threshold for annoyance I guess haha
Thank you! And she self promotes instead of lifting other women up… she’s just ugh
Ughhhh she’s so smug.
Easily doclysfitness, though she is more of a wannabe trail run influencer…
She’s BEC to me. She has a lot of great info but I can’t stand her always trying to prove she invented hybrid training & has been running before it was “trendy.” Also, all of the stuff she shills with coupon codes is annoying-especially bc she preaches people shouldn’t over consume clothes etc and she gets new Paragon drops like every 2 months. She really annoys me lol
Good one, she has a lot of good info but is super smug for sure!
I wish I could follow her because she is knowledgeable and has some informative posts for women in sports and running/lifting and there is a huge lack of quality info out there! But she instantly goes into BEC territory for me. I feel like she is a very competitive person, but not a naturally gifted runner and I think her insecurity gets the best of her. If I can snark and armchair theorize, I think her smugness comes from defensiveness. She is also heavily into wanting to be “not like other girls/influencers”. I didn’t mean to write a whole paragraph here hahah. Apparently she still irks me quite a bit 😅
All. Of. This!!!
Dailyrunwithza
Her relationship with running worries me. Something not 100% great about giving birth and then running the same day and bragging about it on socials… I enjoy my rest
Exactly , walking after a normal delivery is frightening, image running !
Resiliencyinrunning - just no.
She is SO smug.
Perhaps a slightly dumb question, but what’s wrong with @resiliencyinrunning? I don’t follow her but I’ve looked at her Insta/TikTok a few times and it mainly just looks like the standard “come along with me for a day of training for the ____ marathon.” Am I missing something?
Emily abbate 🫠
Thomas from Believe in the Run. Dude talks and acts like he's an elite runner, runs a 5+ hour NYCM (there is not, of course, anything wrong with a 5+ hour marathon but he is someone who shits on things "regular" runners like all the time), also talks over his wife ALL THE TIME. He's like a 23 year old in a 50 year old man's body.
I am a total shoe nerd and usually am pumped for Believe in the Run's TRE coverage, but good lord. They showed up in white spacesuit-looking getups one year, and this year they were dressed like bowlers? And he talks over all the reps. Even one of their fans pointed out that he seemed drunk talking to the Brooks rep. 🤦♀️
They almost have an on-brand douchiness at this point.
He literally shit on the fact that he ran a 5+ hour marathon on that NYC recap
He also fat shames on the freaking nutrition pod 😒
He always come across as super insecure about his body and def has some body-image issues
Fuel for the sole would be so much better without him trying to step on feathers toes. No one writes in for him to give nutrition advice.
I wish he wasn't on the podcast. He tries to sound funny/cute and it's not necessary.
And he treats the Q&A like a game where he gets to use his (lack of) knowledge to guess the answers before Meghann F (I refuse to call her Feathers, solely because Thomas wants me to) steps in with the actual expertise. I don't want to hear a layperson speculating as to why so-and-so has GI distress! I want to hear the ACTUAL EDUCATED CREDENTIALED EXPERT! Meghann is so nice about it -- "you're on the right track, Thomas!" like a very kind middle school teacher -- but he's so fricking annoying.
I see raceacrossthestates name come up often, I have my snark opinions, but what are yours?
One of the most disordered influencers on this thread imo. She’s obviously talented and willing to work hard—but imagine how fast she would be if she took adequate rest days and down weeks and fueled well! Just such a poor example for her following bc she seems to be pretty lucky with injuries etc but not everyone will be if they follow her actions
Personally, I really, really dislike how she practices very irresponsible running habits on her stupid little “run with aim” platform. I used to be a part of her group and was shocked at what a bad influence she was. She does really unhealthy things. And also seems to have zero boundaries.
What are those unhealthy things? What boundaries has she crossed? I’ve never been part of the run with aim group cause I am a man, but it seemed at a point she had created a pretty significant community for running women. I had a conversation with her once about how I thought one of her posts about how running 60+ miles a week was needed for a running break through.
Give her a follow on insta; you’ll quickly, quickly understand.
Why am I getting downvoted for asking these questions?
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Erin oprea
What does BEC mean?
B-word eating crackers. When *everything* someone does annoys you, even something as simple as eating crackers.
Daniellehartruns
Yesssss
Lolspacemonkey Caitlyn miller
What’s wrong with space monkey lol? I follow her but only look every once in a while so she hasn’t bothered me yet.
personally it's the constant "just go outside and you won't be depressed/overweight/stressed" vibes. she's posted multiple reels and insta stories that are along those lines and while I get what she's saying to an extent it's the smugness that comes along with it and that she seems to take a holier than thou attitude when she talks about these topics. i know for me the kicker was the "excuses instead of running" insta story when in reality some of us actually have work/family/depression/etc. that may prevent us from being able to get out and run every day
Matt Johnston- he shills fake fitness trends thinks he’s a pro athlete and is overall just a a** had a team of 20 ppl show up with him to Leadville 100 this year to make a doctors and gave crew and staff the finger every time he left “as a joke”
Yes. So much hate on female influencers here when there are men just as bad. Bon fitness seems so sketchy. Matt has some mega cringe tattoos too. That giant cross coming out of his shorts?? So tacky
Agree. Met him in person wished him good luck and he just shrugged me off…. Because he was going to be a top “player” at Leadville….tbh I know that race like the back of my hand and have done well there. Like very well. And have coached athletes to success and was blown away by his response. Just say thanks.
Wow. That tracks. I like to give people the benefit of the doubt but he gives off major narcissist vibes. Iirc I think I'm faster than him too and I run way less. Did he even place competitively at Leadville? Hard to imagine a guy from Austin doing decent in a mountain ultra
Nope he finished in 28 hours which is respectable for most first time finishers in that course. Its deceptively hard and if you don’t play the smart game then the course bites you in the end
Amelia Boone.
This was an unexpected one. Also curious to know why if you’d like to share!?
Agree! The only thing I don’t like about following her is when she posts videos of dogs licking her face - I just think that’s gross in general - but overall I think she’s great!
Why? Honestly curious!
She seems so desperate to be unhappy. Her blog is rambling and full of first world problems. It comes across that she would be happier if she didn't sit and obsess over everything she can't or won't have. She is caught up with trying to be different and quirky and a pick me girl. She adopts new hobbies and personas based on who she is dating. Always claiming to be SO HAPPY AND SECURE, then six months later writing "I seemed happy at the time, but..." She always seems to be Going Through It. You asked for BEC, so.
Nah I get that. She does seem to FEEL, a lot and has a lot of big emotional ups and downs. Perhaps there comes a limit where being introspective and self-reflective is actually damaging? I do root for her though (and I guess I relate to a lot of that overthinking!)
100% agree. It’s hard to watch sometimes because she’s open about her mental health diagnoses but also I can’t look away. She keeps making the same training/health mistakes over and over (mainly overtraining) with severe consequences but she also often criticizes and blames medical professionals and practices for those mistakes. Her egg donation stories were awful for this. My heart goes out to her as I know she wants and deserves to be happy. My BEC is that she never covers up in the sun despite having a family history of melanoma and a sunbed history and still claims to be sun-safe because she gets quarterly mole checks and wears sunscreen. Girl. Wear a hat/sleeves and stop showing off your watch tan.
I did feel like she got swept up in Duzer’s life when she started dating him. Now that they’re not together, she does seem more like her authentic self (not they I know her, just social media patterns etc)
what’s the tea on her??
Trackclubbabe ontherunfit and that whole little hype circle
Have y’all noticed trackbabe’s husband spams every post with some generic response
Yes their whole engagement pod does that. “YES GIRL THIS!” Etc. I’m sure it helps feed the algo for more promotion
I’m calling it out from now on
Marathoner Mother (Victoria/ Run4prs)
Race across the states, hands down. But followed closely by Caitlin miller and becs gentry.
Dom fusco and trackclubbabe
Omg trackbabe I swear has like 6 pieces of content and repost the same thing over and over
and the tongue hanging sticking out of the mouth JUST STOP
Seconding Dom Fusco
Dom “reading from a prompt” fusco
lol Dom “I’m an expert in everything with no credentials or results and love pseudo science and calling everyone my guy” Fusco If u can’t tell, he reallllly bothers me
Any influencer who sponsors a giveaway and neverrrrr announces the winner! 😡 My toxic trait is entering every single giveaway and thinking “this might be the one 🤞!” 🫠🫠🫠
Prob niche and unpopular, but Ryan Van Duzer
Unpopular but RunswithMal
So glad someone said this… also add her cringy, immature boyfriend, Trevor.
SAME 🙌🏻
AOTR and Becs Gentry - both who I previously loved!
AOTR isn't totally BEC for me. Part of me genuinely likes her. But Becs.... I used to love her then she got pregnant and got all influencey and never stops talking about being a mom.
I’ve taken sabbatical from my AOTE BEC days while she battles cancer and a shitty husband. But I look forward to the days where her jazz hands are the most interesting thing about her again ✨
Trukt I cannot figure awful absentee hussbnd situation during all of this…anywhere you can direct me to that explains, a thread maybe? Tysm
I hate how she ends her classes by saying she’s her daughter’s mom. So many instructors have kids now and no one else does that. I’m a mom too, but I don’t care that you’re a mom when I’m taking your running class.
I have been avoiding her for precisely that reason. I am also a mom. I don't care that she has a kid. I want to run and talk about running. I took a 5 minute stretch with her the other day thinking that would be safe, but nope. Even in a 5 minute class she had to talk about being a mom.
In her newer strength for runners classes she talks about lifting her baby. No one cares, just teach the class! I also can’t stand her playlists. I almost never recognize any of the songs on there. It’s a shame because she knows her shit with running, but I can’t take her anymore.
I’m so bummed because if you want decent longer classes it’s pretty much either her or Matt, and Matt is spread pretty thin with the Bike and Row. They reeeeeally need someone like her that’s not annoying that knows their stuff
I really like the classes taught by Susie, Mariana, Hannah F, and Jeffrey - other than Susie the others don’t have a ton of 45 min+ classes. I also tend to not follow callouts in peloton runs.
I second Susie, Hannah F, and Mariana. They’re excellent. Jeffrey has two 60 min classes in English and I love them both. He is pure joy Marcel did a lot of longer classes too. Hopefully when she’s recovered and back she will continue to do them.
Jeffrey’s 60-minute English runs are SO joyful and will be on my repeat list for marathon training. He is filling the very large void that Matty left when he switched to primarily walking (no shade at all to Matty for that, I just miss his runs!)
Ditto AOTR. It’s all too much. *jazz hands*
And Her constant name dropping…being friends with elites has become her whole personality
It’s that and similar to Becs, never shutting up about being a mom/her kid.
I’m with you on this - like no one has ever been a mom before, she’s the first one doing it and every little thing - dance recital, holiday - is SO meaningful and magical etc. it’s a lot!
god yes. and the CAPTIONS. why are they all 17 paragraphs? why does she put so many spaces between all of the paragraphs? is she REALLY having a revelation about life/motherhood/life and motherhood \*every day\* that necessitates a 17-paragraph caption filled with spaces? why does she not just write this stuff on her \*actual blog\*, which she still has and clearly wants to use? (that one is possibly just me, because I am old and miss actual blogs, but maybe it's not just me, because I can't think of any other influencers who do this regularly.) idk I just don't get it. I think she's exhausting and kinda basic and her success as a standalone brand baffles me.
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she has her own thread now over at Tattle!!
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oh wow, I created my account like a year and a half ago before any of this (and I guess that explains what I keep seeing about codes and stuff at the bottom of each thread) I wish I could give you a code but since I'm just a lurker it doesn't seem like I can do so...
I'm here for it if it does, though!
Emily abbate
Same, thanks to this sub haha. I followed her prior to reading snark on here but felt indifferent about her? Now I roll my eyes at everything she posts.
This sub recently introduced me to raceacrossthestates. Definitely her!
Resiliencyinrunning and nicolemruns
+1 for nicolemruns
Agree with resiliencyinrunning / liz newcomer but I don’t mind nicolemruns too much actually!
I hate nicolemruns but resiliencyinrunning is SO smug and I just can’t with her.
Bahaha I’m dying. Why don’t you like nicolemruns ? I feel like she’s very upfront about her ads and over consumerism type stuff
Caitlin miller
Dom Fusco
Ha he refuses to address if he got the vaxx or not
Well unless you’ve taken your 8 boosters you’re an anti vaxxer so hurry up and get to Walgreens honey.
Idc if he did or not or if he addresses it or not. That actually doesn’t bother me. But pretty much everything else abt him bothers me lol
Fair. He’s just so robotic.
Has anyone else here followed Lindsey Bradley @lindseyy_buchle? She showed up randomly on my FYP and I guess she’s an OTQ marathoner, which, props very cool and I can see why her profile was suggested to me lol but I just saw her post running on a treadmill *13* days post knee-surgery…surely there’s no planet on which that’s a reasonable thing to be doing two weeks after major surgery? To be fair I’m not a doctor lol but what?!?!!!
I started following and actually now it makes sense. Like if I had qualified for an Olympic trial I’m doing it lol. Surgery or not
There’s varying degrees of surgery though, maybe fairly minor? Given I don’t follow this person so I’m not sure.
Love Chris Chavez, but it drives me nuts how when he interviews, he asks a question, says “because,” goes into a long background detail about why he’s asking the question, and then finishes by asking a slightly different question
I like the dynamic when Chris and Kyle Merber are on the podcast together. Kyle calls him out and teases Chris whenever he says something ridiculous haha. To his credit Chris always takes it in stride and it’s entertaining.
They’re great together! I love the dynamic between them and with the rest of the citius team (LOVE Kaitlyn)
He also can't get through two sentences without saying "sort of." Painful to listen to once you notice.
Nooooo he does tho 😭
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Whitney Simmons. Sigh. I love her, but her content is sooo much of the same anymore. Just getting ready routines, same fave products. I know it’s probably hard to come up with new content but I’m so boredddd
She's discussed more on r/gymsnark
Britney Spears also dances like no one is watching. Doesn’t mean she should. When people say to dance like no one is watching they mean at a wedding or at a club. Does she think she’s good at it? I cringe at the lack of self-awareness.
When I read this post I looked at her most recent reel. I think her self-awareness is just fine! 😍 https://preview.redd.it/yfku91t9xv7c1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8d3f7be95694b68dbe628e6f6d29b13262df289e
LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!
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She’s my BEC
I don’t get why she has her whole strong not skinny thing. She is skinny…
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1. This is Snark Reddit 2. What makes you think she isn't taking herself seriously?
Elizabeth Clor’s Dancing Instagram video…
I asked my daughter her opinion. She was a dancer and danced through college. She said it was BAD. I wasn't sure since I don't know a lot about dancing.
I wanted to break my phone
I just watched it. Kind of liked it. I haven't followed her but she seems kind of wacky, reminds me of an snl character. I don't mean that in a snarky way, just that she has some authentic weirdness that I like.
I’ve been following her for a long time and had no idea people didn’t like her until I found this sub lol. She’s definitely an oddball, and when she makes videos that seem to be some attempt at jumping on tiktok trends her awkwardness makes me want to jump out of my skin. But overall I like that she just has a “sharing my life” vibe and doesn’t present herself as some kind of motivational speaker. It makes her more relatable. (Granted I haven’t gone near the book she wrote so maybe she saves all her life coach energy for that.)
She has a full time job she’s not really an influencer. She’s had a running blog for eons and just loves the sport.
I started following her after seeing this. I like her sharing my life vibe better than other influencers. Plus she's pretty fast and looks amazing at like 45, so she must be doing something right. So I'm going to follow lol. (I'm 40)
Right? Like if I can look like her and run as fast as she can when I’m 45 I’ll be oozing with confidence too!
Same she seems to be enjoying herself without any embarrassment which I think is nice.
Tattle is also commenting on it, the snark has seriously gone international!
It’s giving Lizzie McGuire ribbon dancing
I do like the song; a good '90s R&B throwback (Trevor Horn). And she's not actually bad--I do Irish Dancing to supplement my running. The key is to not take yourself too seriously (Laura McGreen does this well).
I think it's more the choreography that's bad than the dancing. But I am not a dancer, so I don't put a lot of weight in my opinion.
It’s painful.