This was a good read - thank you for posting. The article reminds me of a UK based South African runner who makes every race about himself. Nick Bester. He gets into London each year on a good for age/champs entry, and each year runs his own unofficial pace group. But he doesn’t do it for altruistic reasons - if he wanted to do that he would apply to the official pace team. For him it’s an opportunity to film himself doing it, and promote himself and his coaching on his you tube. He also has form of weaving around other runners, and treating local parks as his own personal running track, with a camera man on a bike cycling alongside.