Good that she got into London. The qualification process is odd in that she’s alright for London but not Boston. Whereas I’ve got next to no chance of London but should easily get into Boston.
The female London GFA times are fairly generous if calculated as age grade percentage.
I just watched this again (fuck knows why) but I originally missed the bit at the end, mainly due to her hysterics but WTF, she’s going to Boston as a guest of Adidas.
What a great message to send. Don’t train properly, take every excuse under the sun, miss your goal by a country mile but hey doesn’t matter, you’re going anyway.
Christ on a fucking bike!
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I should vlog a Kona attempt, I mean I have fuck all chance of doing it, might get some clicks and who knows, might get a Kona slot anyway
I just watched this and as @Jorgan said there are more deserving people, and as well the comments summarised above this is what is wrong with sport/social media. It reminds me of the folk who wanted crowd funding to go to races
Worked for that twat Ramsey
Don’t get me started on that, in the club I ran we actually had someone who thought their £35 a year should include subsidising their GB jolly. Also crowdfunding the trips was quite normal, and it wasnt entirely honest with a comment of one lady, “yes I will be racing with the Brownlees” lolz.
A mate of mine ran Manchester yesterday. He’s a good runner, went out on 2:50 pace but bombed out after 16 miles and mile 26 was 10 minutes plus. And on Strava all the comments are like “great run!” “amazing!” etc and I’m thinking no it wasn’t, he messed it up!
I get it if you are young and have the talent. There must be quite a few who do not have the cash and didn’t get on the academy path and for that I would put some ££ in. I saw this a lot with athletics and XC during my coaching stint where the talent is discovered later than the others.
That’s a tough one as as many non-marathoner would see getting across the line as the achievement whereas with a bit of insight it was a doomed effort. I suppose it is for the poster to admit to their failed attempt or sulk in silence.
none of them are even close to Elite, many youngsters yes. If they were getting invites to national level events but not on the HPP then you could understand it a bit more. Most of the claims are disingenuous at best.
Yeah, it probably says more about me really that I’m such a nerd that after the time the second thing I look at for anyone’s marathon is the mile splits 
Have you considered balancing the Strava comments with that feedback? 
Jeez. Well it’s all an adidas promotion isn’t it?
I suspect that she won’t handle the online cynicism very well, but, well, if she has a place I hope she gets to her 3h30 there at least.
Is this the same lady? Because if you scroll down the comments you’ll see nothing but positive comments on that YT video of Berlin. For Average Joe, what she’s done is ‘impressive’ even if average Joe could actually cruise around well under 5h on the training she’s done (assuming she’s actually done some diligent training?).
Does Anna generally cry too much for effect?
Gordon, Gino & Fred was on last week, they were in Greese and ran a lap of an outdoor stadium. Gordon says I’ve done 6 marathons & 4 Ironman these have no chance. Fred out sprinted him to the finish. Amusing, he was gutted 
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Yes, she cries a lot. Everything is hard, nobody has it tougher than her, she struggles with seemingly every aspect of actually running and life in general as far as I can tell.
She said in a clip about 18mths ago that she’s tried lots of hobbies and given them up but running was ‘the one’. She was approached to be the (I think) Content Mgr of the channel.
The cynic in me says she really doesn’t actually like running that much but likes the Youtube adoration more.
I suspect the negative comments get deleted. I saw someone on Twitter saying how much abuse they got from yesterday’s tweet, but when you read it there was nothing but positivity.
Yeah fair enough. I still see crossing the finish line regardless of the time merits a pat on the back, particularly if it’s a hard course. It’s a fair old distance. The Great Langdale marathon for example - everyone deserves a clap at the end of that one lol
But if you’re in 2:50 shape you’ll run 2:50 also lol
In the early days of YouTube there was a guy who was attempting to go from overweight bloke to elite level marathoner
I’ve tried to find the episodes subsequently and i can’t find them. Back in the days of MySpace.
He was asking - this was in the late noughties - why there was a dearth of talent in the GB marathon squad and decided he was going to fill the gap!
He really did give it a proper go and transformed into a crazy lean runner. I think he managed 2:50 something but didn’t manage much further and then injured himself.
He got a real slating from the hardcore running fraternity.
It wasn’t Steve Way by the way