Instagram Runners: Deep Analysis

Who cares?

Mommy marathoners are the bane of my existence. Or anyone who gives unqualified training advice.

Ignore them if you can, you may be made of sterner stuff than the rest of us. But the Instagram runners are out there and demand your attention, whether you like it or not.

The fact that you are annoyed by someone who has lost a ton of weight and posts before and after photos to inspire and motivate others who are struggling to get healthy and live a more active lifestyle says more about you than them.

I've thought about creating a running-instagram account. It would be about how you, too, can become a mediocre runner who is always tired simply by maintaining high mileage, and fueling with coffee, double IPAs, and thousands of calories of goldfish a day!

You forgot the professional coach type too. They usually don’t really know what they are talking about at all, have some really weird coaching philosophies, and not a lot of coaching accomplishments but for some reason tons of followers

My Instagram is plagued by runners that post videos of them moving at about 4:00 a mile pace, with the caption “Tempo day!” And a 19:30 5k PR to show for it.

Also runners running on a treadmill with the caption “3:20 KM pace!” And receiving 10,000 likes. Maybe I need to start doing this.

I know a guy that posts on Facebook as if he is posting to Strava. He provides very detailed breakdowns of his long runs, workouts, and races. He definitely thinks of himself as the inspirational type as he is a successful masters runner. He recently bragged about drafting off a younger kid for 4 miles of a 10k race and outkicking him. The race had 100 runners.

True. My post was becoming overly long and my spelling was devolving into Brojo territory. A deeper analysis of these Crooked Coaches and Fast Phonies is evidently required, though.

I believe I know this person. I always assumed he doped in order to do the insane amounts of difficult workouts and long runs multiple days in a row without getting hurt and running low 2:20s in his mid 40s

Yeah the "X:XX KM pace" stuff is really weird. I've seen a few where people have taken videos of top tier guys cruising 26s 200s and it says like "2:10km pace!"

Don't get me started on the GOATA guys, but they're more fringe.

ok

Almost everything on the interweb can be explained by vanity, narcissism, and money.

Anyone extolling the virtues of Running on "Pure Hate" does not subscribe to the above.

Caitlyn Miller is the worse. Very cute, but she shares with the world every single run and lift. She lifts like 6 days a week and is a pretty natural runner. Softball player turned runner who ran like 18:40 in college in her only season and won a NCAA DIII conference meet. She gives advice and training tips left and right and has been running for three years. She races like twice a year and has so much hype and drama leading up to every race like its the olympics. And all of her hobby jogger followers think she trains so much. She does the same 2-3 workouts weekly and has no clue how to train. If she had a real coach and lifted twice a week she could be very good. She is like a train wreck. I love to hate her.

Hating on the goata cause your a woata.

jk.

Et tu vegan ultra runner..?

For similarity, there’s a subreddit for this — r/blogsnark

Caitlyn Miller 3:07 Boston is pretty solid. I had to unfollow her bc every post is a promotion for a snack or workout outfit. She could use a content consultant .

Sub 5 mile / 500 pound deadlift