A Serious Runner Plants Excuses Before a Marathon

[@Vo2maxProductions]

Don't forget: "haven't been sleeping well due to weird insomnia" ! Even if you PR you can still bring up the hurdles that you had to overcome (to insinuate that you probably would've PRed by even more if it had not been for all these disadvantages and things that weren't even optimized!). Sure, it would be a humblebrag, but make sure you cloak it with enough #vulnerability and hashtag #authenticity🏃🏻‍♂🙌

[@pcwildcat]

I'm so glad you posted this. I have a big race coming up in a few weeks and realize I need to do a better job of reminding everyone that I have toddlers that require a TON of my time and attention.

[@TheSeriousRunner]

yes! you've got this! 💪

[@RunningOtaku]

The art of lowering expectations is alive and well! You should sell a pre-race Serious Runner calendar with the excuses pre-populated. Pure gold!

[@christopherbrand5360]

In the movies there is heartwarming music to reinforce the hero's "vulnerability" and it gets everyone right in the feels. Cultivating, planting, and tending excuses is the highest form of the serious runner's art.

[@joeCYsiu]

The Excuse Matrix is so powerful. It should be adopted for work settings. “I am not the smartest person in the room, so I worked extra hard and pull some all nighters to deliver this project.”

[@wvu05]

I set my PR in an 8K cross-country race after tripping on a tree root and falling down the one hill in north Jersey and getting water on the knee. I _always_ bring that up when discussing that one ;-)

[@TheSeriousRunner]

this is a great point and could be another entire video -- how to amplify your race results

[@tsubakichan]

I followed Serious Runner's 4-week Excuse Planning Plan, and it totally worked!!! I got the bad race result I feared, but by strategically planting seeds of doubt to my followers in the lead-up - I was able to just about get as many kudos and comments praising me as when I PR'd. I'm going to use this for every training cycle!

[@JoeFleegel]

Well, I was older on race day than during training.

[@markjohnson4237]

Brilliant, as always. I find I've done so much of this without even trying :)

[@christopherbrand5360]

A true natural

[@TheSeriousRunner]

some people have to work hard... but then there are people with natural talent.

[@markjohnson4237]

@@TheSeriousRunner 🤣

[@jefffraser3205]

Absolutely brilliant!

[@Martha-fluterunner]

Doing the Napa HM in early March and my coach already provided my excuses because it’s a “tuneup” for Boston (humble brag already inserted) and he wants me to run easy for at least the first half (hobby jog?) since it’s my “B race” 😂

[@elizabethheironimus8759]

Excellent content but it comes too late for my 20 mile trail race this Sunday with potentially icy conditions...

[@Martha-fluterunner]

Not too late! You just put it out publicly 🎉

[@femalejaysfan]

Thank you so much. I'm formulating my excuse list right now.

[@PatrickStar_24]

Thanks for the tips! Will be sure to use these before my next race!

[@Winnietaco]

Hahaha love the content/excuses schedule!

[@KyleSimmons827]

Another great video!

[@TheSeriousRunner]

🙏 only the best, most high-quality educational content for my loyal followers

[@partyguinness]

Vital to get all the excuses out in the holding pen even to the random stranger next to you.

[@PoetWithPace]

"people do love a bad superhero movie" sums it all up nicely!

[@mrth0nymous]

I did this by pancaking on my last long run before my first (and now last) trail race. Ran the race with a big gash in the knee. Perfect excuse for a crappy result.

[@charliedurie3013]

Hilarious 😂

[@Nyelands]

Is this inspired by the another serious runner Eric Floberg? I remember one excuse where the non-PR was due to the hilly route in Boston. So it actually was a Grade Adjusted PR.

[@charlenelarson6505]

Exactly who I thought of. I always cringe when he explains what his excuse adjusted finish time actually should be.

[@DecGreg]

Would you recommend adding a double excuse day on some days as well? I keep seeing the elites doing it

[@TheSeriousRunner]

if you're like me and you're practically a pro, emulate the pros

[@DavidBaak]

You could add: pretend to put in effort coaching underprivileged children to their 5K PR and make that the reason why you are "loving investing in others even if it's at the detriment of your own training". You'll never have to provide proof because you are protecting the privacy of those kids and it adds virtual signaling bonus points.

[@pcwildcat]

Oh my god this is brilliant.

[@Scartoons-t1h]

This is educational!

[@jean-francoishiller8948]

A few sniffles and coughs go a long way

[@svenja5596]

Wait a sec gotta get my notepad 😂

[@ultradabadu]

Have fun on race day! Dont forget to make them record yourself from an e bike✌️

[@TheSeriousRunner]

paging @vo2maxproductions

[@Vo2maxProductions]

@@TheSeriousRunner I'll charge up the bike! 🏍🎥

[@willstrachan8593]

Armband HR=serious HR 👌

[@AuDHDRunner]

If it weren't for the wind...

[@TheSeriousRunner]

It seems like we’ll need a post race excuses follow up video

[@Agent45]

What is this "caffeine fasting" of which you speak? Also...shout out to my PT doc for helping to get me to the start line! ;)

[@TheSeriousRunner]

do people not know about caffeine fasting? is that a whole different educational video?

[@Agent45]

@@TheSeriousRunner I will have to unfollow you (again) if you do!

[@Martha-fluterunner]

Kofuzi carries the camera stick to put his viewers first and never uses it as an excuse (and doesn’t need to). But others do it for him nevertheless 😂 with all the comments about “if you just ditched the camera…”

[@19Vxc76]

Taking notes ✍️✍️✍️😅😅😅

[@SageOfEchoes]

Reminds me of a serious runner Hoka sponsored to travel to travel to UTMB just to DNF. 😂

[@ericguqin]

kipchoge is mad🤣

[@trainwellracewell]

“If only the coach would have put me in, we would have won the state championship” - Uncle Rico

[@hcronos]

So you're saying your excuses start at the same time as your taper?

[@BigDockEnergy]

That pesky Norovirus is going around. You may have had a touch of it and not known, or thought you were exposed to it while traveling to the race.

[@A_SEGA_Dremcast]

Notes taken.

[@adamfeerst2575]

Be bold. Put it out there without excuse, excuses. Then, when, not if you fail, you can garner more sympathy.

[@joshdilley-md1ew]

I tried to post it, but it keeps removing the link! Tracksmith is having a literature contest! I feel like this is destiny. If Serious Runner handbook doesn’t take home the win, this thing is rigged.

[@camilotroncoso6793]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@jeremyrivers6194]

I was planning on watching the Sixth Sense, now you've ruined it for me :)

[@partyguinness]

I have shamefully used this absolute lie to disguise a rubbish time…”Pacing my buddy to a new PR”…😂

[@TheSeriousRunner]

that's a good one. shows selflessness. who can fault you for that?

[@dansouth2088]

Is caffeine fasting really a thing? Asking for a friend.

[@TheSeriousRunner]

wow ok. we need an high-quality ivy-league level deep dive educational video about this.

[@Joe_Souza]

“Caffeine fast” is the only excuse you need for not setting a PR. All the subsequent headaches and irritability …☕️☕️. This is blasphemy.

[@donaldsprague6345]

You know that you just ruined it for us self obsessed "serious runners"!

[@Stashawk]

Shouldn't you at least get the new NDO poster???

[@DP-sh3nk]

Bruce Willis was dead?? WTF!!!! Thank for the Spoiler 😜

[@TheSeriousRunner]

lol 25 years seems like a fair statute of limitations for spoilers

[@TheSeriousRunner]

btw, Darth Vader is Luke's dad.

[@DP-sh3nk]

@ oh man!!!!

[@DP-sh3nk]

@@TheSeriousRunner very much joking My friend 🙃

[@wvu05]

@@TheSeriousRunner I was watching _Psycho_ with friends who'd never seen it in 2010. I refused to tell them who Mother was even though it was 50 years old the time. All because my aunt once ruined _The Land Before Time_ by reacting to the next scene for the entire movie :-(

[@therapygrind]

You are Netflix show worthy, but please tell me you don't really road run with your back to oncoming traffic like at the top of this video, that's just B roll footage stuff, right?

[@TheSeriousRunner]

Not usually no. I turned around on that road somewhere. probably an oncoming car or something and just didnt cross over yet

[@jonathansandberg5267]

Thanks a lot for ruining the 6th Sense for me. I was planning to watch but won’t now that you spoiled it for me. Thanks a lot.

[@macau.friend]

You look tired in this video

[@TheSeriousRunner]

I've just been training so much

[@jeremycahill]

Heavy training has a significant impact on sleep. Make sure to note it on your Strava.

[@TheSeriousRunner]

@ You say that, Jeremy -- but @vo2maxproductions just thinks I'm just weak. Too much training *only* results in overuse injuries.

[@jeremycahill]

Sounds like you just need a higher dose of ketones and problem solved. 👌

[@TheSeriousRunner]

We can have the Jeremy character and the Sage character debate this in Season 2 of the Serious Show

[@sun.2801]

C’mon…nobody liked the Green Lantern movie 😉

[@zhozhforever4047]

Clothes is pretty worn out, are you even a runner?

[@TheSeriousRunner]

That gear drop from Tracksmith should be arriving any day now.

[@zhozhforever4047]

No excuses! No way