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Ted Haydon used to hand out a list of excuses for his athletes to choose from.
I was wondering how this excuse is? I had to decide between kicking and not exploding with diarreah down the home stretch; I chose not exploding with diarreah.
last of dying breed wrote:
I was wondering how this excuse is? I had to decide between kicking and not exploding with diarreah down the home stretch; I chose not exploding with diarreah.
To quote Homer Simpson, "It's funny because it's true."
I've had this happen loads of times in interval or hard tempo workouts, but luckily not in a race. I did have one leg of a 4x800 where I was clenching for at least 700 meters. Luckily, a jogging effort was all that was required that day.
"I was just running it as a training run"
This is also known as the 'triathlete excuse', because they always have to tell us how hard they're training for "KONA!!" and that's why they just got their ass handed to them by a good 30 year old age group woman.
From one of my teammate "My compression shorts were on backwards."
This is a great excuse. Sea Ray, 1987. Either ease off the last 300 of a 1500, or leave a brown streak on the track. I chose the former.
I smoke too much.
No one took the pace out quick enough
The steeple barrier was too high!
how about one i used?
I was never any good in the cold. It was just about freezing one year for the conference xc meet. My coach made some stupid order that we all better look identical during warmups, as if that was actually important to us running well. Some guys on the team decided it would be cool if we warmed up in shorts and jackets, but no pants. They pressured me in fear of the coach to warm up that way. I was cold and never got warmed up. I ran like shit. So did all but one guy on the team. I thought it was a legitimate excuse, but when I brought it up at the team meeting about how stupid it was to warm up with no pants on in 30-something wet weather, everyone on the team including the coach thought I was crazy or a crybaby. maybe. You tell me.
"I took a long cut"
"I changed my sex from male to female".
(not actually heard, just throwing it out there)
The I was treating it as a training run. What a load of crap - it's a race, so race it.
All from the same guy on my team:
It was foggy.
I smelled smoke from a grill.
I had internal bleeding.
quenton wrote:
I had internal bleeding.
winner
The humidity was brutal, couldn't cool down but I gave everything I had... just wasn't much.
Didn't KK complain about the slow pace at a World Championship Marathon (maybe in Edmonton)?
mousey wrote:
The I was treating it as a training run. What a load of crap - it's a race, so race it.
Yes, this drives me crazy too. There are guys in my city who seem to race constantly and are always trying to get me to race more (I probably race 12-15 times a year, mostly at 10k and longer). I explain that if you race all the time, you don't maximize your potential. They usually respond with, "then just use it as a training run". Now why the hell would I want to shell out $30-$40 (or more) to do a half marathon training run? I just don't understand the logic in this. Some people just need to be at every stinkin' event.
When I do race, I give it everything I've got. And no one should be doing that every weekend.
I didn't eat today.