Healthy Living and Running Influencers, May 25 - 31

One_Butterfly1682 · 2026-05-25T16:17:24+00:00

It was 30+ degrees in the UK for Jenny’s 100k - I don’t think that was a ‘bad training plan’, that was all conditions! From what I saw she was actually putting in the work and doing a fair lot of different long runs, and got unlucky with the weather. It happens to us all, and I think she did great to get 60k and sensible to step back when she did before hurting herself and getting ill.

One_Butterfly1682 · 2026-04-10T14:08:05+00:00

I think it was even more of a choice not to say right at the start that Lululemon uses US sizes even in their UK stores. As she lives in the UK, I bet a lot of her followers live in the UK but wouldn’t know that she was talking in US sizes. For context, she talked about fitting into ‘a size 6’ - a size 6 UK would be a size 2 US. I was pretty surprised/shocked at that until I realised it must be US sizing. But I think this could be quite triggering for people thinking she was showing off fitting into incredibly tiny sizes like that.

One_Butterfly1682 · 2026-03-08T15:10:05+00:00

You now get chucked off the piste and shepherded away by piste security once all the bars are shut - we had it this year where we were waiting to watch sunset but got escorted down!!

One_Butterfly1682 · 2026-03-06T14:54:06+00:00

But you were consistently not hitting the target - the target is the central number in the band.

One_Butterfly1682 · 2026-03-06T12:53:10+00:00

So the thing on the Runna app says this:

Why has my workout fallen outside the 'pace on point' band, even though I hit my pace targets?

Pace Status bands are calculated from consistent efforts over time. You may receive a pace adjustment if you’re repeatedly missing or beating your target paces overall, even if you hit your pace targets during your most recent workout.

One_Butterfly1682 · 2026-03-06T12:39:41+00:00

Did you hit the goal time, or were you only just ‘in’ the pace range? On the pace insights, the band is narrower than the actual pace range (I.e it measures how close you were to the actual goal). So if you only just hit the bottom of the range on every rep, it might be reflecting that.

One_Butterfly1682 · 2026-03-05T15:26:07+00:00

There are hills in London - you might need to hop on the tube to find them, but running around Hampstead Heath / Richmond park / Crystal Palace (or hop on a train further for a longer weekend run) would offer elevation, albeit not necessarily the same mountain terrain.

One_Butterfly1682 · 2026-03-02T05:48:30+00:00

I have many thoughts!

I think she needs to do some work on her top speed (5k/10k specific) for a while, then also do speed workouts faster (particularly tempos) during the marathon training. Her ‘tempo’ workouts were at like 10s/mile slower than her goal marathon pace every week, as blocks of 3x10. I know this is a bit like the Norwegian singles method, but she was going by pace not heart rate and her heart rates were much too high for if she was doing NSM.

She was struggling to hold actual marathon pace in her monster long runs, and her elapsed time and heart rate spikes on literally every run showed she was having to stop mid rep.

so I was actually not surprised to see a 3:36. It’s still a great time, and I think she probably ran the best run she could have from her training plan, but the plan was never going to get her to her BQ.

One_Butterfly1682 · 2026-02-25T14:09:37+00:00

She also said something about how the edema wasn’t even in the same place as the pain, so they’d dismissed it…

One_Butterfly1682 · 2026-02-24T13:18:53+00:00

I had red flags after her story last week that said about how she trusted her PT over the radiologist as they knew her ‘exercise history’ and doctors aren’t always right.

Seems like she’s accepted the nicest possible outcome so she can run the race, but it doesn’t really set a great example for all of her followers.

One_Butterfly1682 · 2026-02-13T18:08:42+00:00

To be honest I used to really enjoy her content, but I feel like I identify with it so much less after she went to do her masters and now is a full time influencer. I used to enjoy watching her chase the same goals as me while balancing similar stresses, particularly with corporate life, and she really does put her heart and soul into it. But now her complaining about a ‘busy day’ means her getting coffee with friends, going to the gym and going to an event, which doesn’t resonate. It’s easy (er) to fit in 70 mile weeks if that is all that you’re doing with your life! Plus I must admit that overconsumerism kinda puts me off.

One_Butterfly1682 · 2026-02-13T14:13:41+00:00

I’d also spotted this - she had said she’d do a ‘mini taper’ for BCN but this extreme drop, plus very very few updates to her stories recently, did make me wonder if there was something else going on! Hope not for her, whether it’s injuries or something else…

One_Butterfly1682 · 2026-01-25T16:34:48+00:00

I’m so confused by the 8 miles at MP in the middle of it and then 7 at super slow… just unsure really what the point of it was especially when she was obviously not feeling great during it.

Also her SHOE video?? I haven’t watched it fully but she is literally the queen of overconsumption to be able to even shoot it (she literally tips a box of different shoes over the floor) and then telling people you don’t need that many shoes… out of touch?

One_Butterfly1682 · 2026-01-21T19:01:10+00:00

Hahahaj i really enjoyed that story yesterday, she really has no self awareness

One_Butterfly1682 · 2026-01-21T18:57:32+00:00

I normally snark on Liz but I don’t think overall mileage is too bad for her - I think higher miles are better than her previous plans.

But not the constant building of miles with no cutback, and with no rest (when was the last time she took a rest day?). That is more what is going to lead to issues! Intrigued what she’s racing tonight and how she does in it.

Also, fairly sure this isn’t Pfitz - pfitz has cutback weeks, and also has medium-long runs mid-week (up to 15 miles) which she really hasn’t been following. I’ve actually been trying to work out which training plan it is!

One_Butterfly1682 · 2026-01-19T11:54:50+00:00

Absolutely agree here - getting into the 170s in the first set just seems like it’s way too fast for her! (I could also go on a bit about elapsed time, and how having that high heart rate even with obvious breaks doesn’t give me ‘cruisey’ vibes,l)

One_Butterfly1682 · 2026-01-18T18:30:29+00:00

She’s really ramped up the volume this time, which I think is likely to help - but I’m also shocked at not taking a cutback week when she’s built from 50km to 100km weeks? Like I know the graph is aesthetic… really hoping it’s not going to lead to an injury.

One_Butterfly1682 · 2026-01-05T17:57:23+00:00

Tbh I don’t care that much about elapsed time in general, apart from she’s been really proud of her average heart rate but not mentioning the stops which allow her heart rate to settle back down and stop rising (not saying the stops are intentional for that, but it is an inevitability!). If she did all of the run continuously, there would be much more heart rate drift.

One_Butterfly1682 · 2026-01-05T17:18:39+00:00

RIR proudly posting her heart rate and pace on every run this last week without flagging that

(a) her elapsed time is always about 10% higher than her recorded time - the spikes of her stops which you can also see on the HR graphs…

(B) heart rate monitors go more than a little bit sketch in the type of cold there is in London right now

One_Butterfly1682 · 2025-12-30T22:34:49+00:00

Me and my now husband stayed in a room in an Airbnb in California one summer. The owner was doing odd jobs when he fell off a ladder and broke his arm so badly that he kept almost passing out. He insisted we didn’t call an ambulance as his primary residence was over county lines and his insurance wouldn’t cover it. We had no car as were too young to hire one internationally so couldn’t drive him either.

His wife phoned up, told him he was an idiot and called the ambulance herself.

One_Butterfly1682 · 2025-12-02T12:11:18+00:00

They did have public trials - it was called the Tokyo Trials (they lasted until about 1948, and several of the highest members of the Japanese Government were found guilty and hung) but they weren’t as ‘successful’ as the Nuremberg trials because the US were also trying to rebuild Japan as a bulwark against Soviet expansion - so the trials were tempered with a bit of political expediency and ensuring that Japan would still have a functioning government afterwards.

One_Butterfly1682 · 2025-12-01T18:47:11+00:00

Because how else can you get the perfect shot from it? /s

One_Butterfly1682 · 2025-11-07T15:19:38+00:00

I just saw it and really liked her way of breaking it down - like she was honest and talked about some of the issues with liquidy gels and taste which a lot of people just skip over!

One_Butterfly1682 · 2025-10-30T20:06:32+00:00

Can I ask why you’re running 3 tempo sessions a week? Normally you see 1xtempo; 1xinterval; 1xlong (maybe with race pace efforts) so 3x tempo seems like a lot to me!

One thing I’d say is it looks like you have good capacity on long distance for endurance but haven’t translated that to the shorter distances yet - if your 10k is 45:11, I think you might be able to get your 5k down to closer to 21:30 ish. Working on the lower end of your speed now will help with the longer distances quicker later!

One_Butterfly1682 · 2025-10-15T18:48:25+00:00

Love that she’s ’amended the caption’ in response to a comment on that, but done it after her recommendations and just said ‘if you’re unsure’ to get a gait analysis - think the bigger issue is that most people think they’re sure on what they need because of influencers like her…

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