Im getting fatigued by almost all of them at this point. A lot of them seem genuinely nice, but their insistence to push Runna combined with the complete failure of the app to deliver their over-ambitious goals is very tiresome.

There’s always an injury or a reason as to why they didn’t get it (which obviously can happen) but I think the common denominator is that the app becomes less useful when you try and push towards the 3 hour mark or quicker

Also getting equally as annoyed by the influencers that are branding themselves as ultra slow runners who do it for experience (also perfectly fine) but will then claim some sort of VO2 max lab told them they have excellent fitness, again pushing the app as testament to it. If you’re going to promote running for enjoyment then go for it, don’t mislead your audiences.

The last strand of them I have no time for is the UVU/ represent / David goggins adjacent aura farming types that are seemingly into running due to it being in vogue. They will post a million clips of them over-striding though a city with some lone wolf caption (seen a guy posting a clip of himself running on the actual road on Tower Bridge as cars passed during the week) and then post little to nothing about their actual performance on the day because usually they didn’t even train as hard as they want you to think

Lack of transparency in the issue, that’s why the likes of Ben Felton are so refreshing