That user name is 🔥
That user name is 🔥
oddly enough I watched one of your videos (the London marathon recap) for the first time last night based on what I read in this thread! I obviously can't speak to your training or illness or whatever but I also ran London for the first time this year and I really enjoyed reliving the experience while trudging through some late treadmill miles. So, thank you! For what it's worth, I subscribe to just about every major running YouTube channel at this point and you are far less annoying than most.
*also side note: what you were saying about being boxed in on the course and hearing others' experiences about over-crowding was really interesting bc I too had this problem (running in the 2:40s), just no open road anywhere. I was really surprised honestly but assumed that London always has this problem... Have not had this issue more than the first few miles at any other World Marathon Major. But, the crowd support was next level and I LOVED my experience overall.
Thanks… appreciate it. All of us are “annoying” to a degree, it’s about who can be the least annoying 😂 personality types / approaches / philosophies all play a part in that! But the bottom line is, if you’re big enough and ugly enough to stick your face on the internet, then you’ve got to have broad shoulders and take some criticism as well as the positives.
Yes, London are getting greedy, when I did it in 2022 there was around the low 40k I think… this year it was 50k and they’ve said next year they want to push it too 70k and challenge to be the biggest in the world… which is stupid because the infrastructure for that many people just isn’t there. We don’t have big open roads like in the states, they’re much smaller so there’s much more bunching. You’ve got to be sub 2:40 to get a good experience there these days I think. I’ll go back, but I’m not sure I’d make it my target race again for a while… definitely not next year anyway!
Much respect Andy for coming on here.
I knew you were lurking on this thread when you were quite keen on not cooking yourself on the Lactate Meter again with the Welsh Runner collab. Good luck in everything and Welcome!