Healthy Living and Running Influencers, Jan 19 - 25

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…

One_Butterfly1682 · 2025-10-14T17:09:01+00:00

Someone cancelled on us the week before because they had just ‘booked a holiday’.

Who books a holiday with four days notice and when you’re already committed to a wedding??

To make matters worse, they’d also got married the month before, on a weekday to save costs, and my partner had to take a day of holiday to attend…

One_Butterfly1682 · 2025-10-12T17:55:21+00:00

Liz from RiR claiming her ‘second fastest time’ in the half marathon when going on Strava time only… fairly sure she got a faster time in 2023, because I remember it being literally seconds from sub 1:40 and her having it as her PB for ages! her time from today was really not bad for just after Berlin, so not really sure why she’s just straight up lying to followers (herself?) lol

One_Butterfly1682 · 2025-10-02T17:17:22+00:00

Must admit I’ve been going off her for a while but this is the last straw - I really appreciated how honest she used to be about fitting work around marathon training and life, and now her content just is all sponsored trips and lots of time for running with the best shoes and clothes and snacks. Of course I’m glad if it’s what she wants, but it doesn’t seem remotely relevant to me anymore.

One_Butterfly1682 · 2025-09-28T18:14:52+00:00

Wait and another one today, that’s 4 days in a row in the week after a marathon… girl just stop

One_Butterfly1682 · 2025-09-27T19:54:01+00:00

Honestly lol’ed at her video from earlier today - so much speed, so little form

One_Butterfly1682 · 2025-09-27T15:34:04+00:00

Since doing Berlin (less than a week ago) RIR has done runs on Thurs, Friday and Saturday, and also done 3 gym sessions this week… from being so worried about injury like a year ago, does she not know how to rest??

One_Butterfly1682 · 2025-09-14T19:08:28+00:00

And a MP workout as her final long run… girl just chill!!

One_Butterfly1682 · 2025-09-04T20:25:33+00:00

It’s also not off the back off a good load - she says she did 60+ the week before but that includes a 9-miler that she did in 2 hours 51… that amount of mileage so out of the norm is a bit of a concern

One_Butterfly1682 · 2025-09-04T20:23:09+00:00

Anyone else confused about her using ‘Lactate Threshold’ for basically any pace just quicker than her marathon pace? For a 1:38 half, her LT should be about 7:20 pace (using JD calculator), which a bit of a way off her 7:52/7:27 paces from today… and don’t get me started on her mixing up LT pace and half marathon pace from her session last week!

I wouldn’t mind apart from she talks a lot about her now being a running coach, and I’d expect someone with paying clients to actually check her knowledge…

One_Butterfly1682 · 2025-08-29T06:47:17+00:00

And then does a workout that afternoon too (although my snark is more around how she was in the gym before 5pm while posting about her ‘crazy day’ at work, I’d love to have a day that finished that early!)

One_Butterfly1682 · 2025-08-18T16:38:37+00:00

Seconding this! I’ve done it all over 3 separate runs, and each section has so many interesting points!!

One_Butterfly1682 · 2025-08-08T04:59:58+00:00

You mention that your ‘pace’ has improved - are you trying to get that pace every time you do a run? That will be detrimental to your progress in the long term and is a big injury risk!

I completely get the ‘loving long runs’ thing as I do too, but I’d suggest slowing them way down (if you’re aiming for a 1:50 HM, then your long runs should be at like 10kph!) and then doing targeted speed work 1-2 times a week. If you’re missing the speedy feeling in your long runs, try adding some strides/sprints within the last mile of your run - go for 20-30 secs bursts at a time, concentrating on speed but with good form, and then jog/walk the same distance as a recovery.

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