UKRunChat and Brooke’s are whistling into the wind with LF’s follower demographics. I fancy UKRunChat is about as useless as the NCDV when it comes to checking the appropriateness of its spokespeople.
UKRC is by and for privileged competitive people listing competitive races and competitive pushing to extremes.
Nothing about women’s wellbeing and safety. Nothing about running in fear of a violent partner or ex. Or with disabilities or physical or mental health conditions or CPTSD or ADHD or cultural challenges or while in prison or anything applicable to the people lured to follow Liz.
Nowhere has Liz caveated that the target audience of this site/chat/group is not for the faint hearted or runners starting out.
It’s not for the Ade’s and David’s and sausage selling perverts who will tune in to to marinade their pork. Or for women living with illnesses or in the shadows of abuse - Liz’s follow profile.
Regardless of the topic, Liz promotes pushing our bodies to extremes. It’s what people with addictions do. Starve, exercise, stalk, steal, hate, hurt, hunt, revenge, repeat.
Her current addiction is her new man. Endurance running is a tactic. She’s not qualified to talk about or answer questions on marathon or ultra running, training or fitness, goals and plans.
Her approach to running is dangerous for even the fittest of elite runners.Running with no preparation. No training, no build up, no stretching, no warm down, no preparation for the run, no water, no nutrition, rehydration with whisky, worn out equipment, no route to be tracked if she doesn’t return, yet publicly posting her remote running routes so any loon can track her.
Yet another organisation discredited by choosing to partner with Liz Fraser. I’m crossing them all off my list. I might just be one woman, but I’m a woman with friends, family and real world influence.