unofficial Seth Demoor NYC 'Thon prediction contest

Honest question, and not trying to be a hater: does this begin to damage his credibility among his viewer base?

I don't think so- most of his viewers are bad hobbyjoggers. If anything, they're only gonna like him more for probably conceding that his so-called "mad scientist" approach wont' work out. Expecting a "HES JUST LIKE ME AND DOESNT HIT HIS GOALS" in the comments.

Nah, he has made it clear that his focus would be on training for the US Mountain running championships. He said he needed to pick a priority and said he's better at mtn running and will be working hard at it. I think it's a bit of both - he knew he didn't have the time to pivot to a solid marathon training block with a good result, and he also wants to focus on what he's good at.

supragraf wrote:

3:00:46 unofficial

Is this going to be good enough to qualify for Boston?

if he is 35 yes

if he is 34 no

I forget which he is

plibt wrote:

Nah, he has made it clear that his focus would be on training for the US Mountain running championships. He said he needed to pick a priority and said he's better at mtn running and will be working hard at it. I think it's a bit of both - he knew he didn't have the time to pivot to a solid marathon training block with a good result, and he also wants to focus on what he's good at.

Maybe he has Covid. I don’t think he got the jab.

Early rumor has it that Kofuzi might have spiked once on Seth's pre-race BoBo bars with laxative. Either that or the pre-race Starbucks pumpkin spice frappucino didn't sit well in his tummy. One only knows how True Love will take this setback along with the Global YouTube followers. Will they be able to handle a major setback in our hero's 'Thon performance?

plibt wrote:

Nah, he has made it clear that his focus would be on training for the US Mountain running championships. He said he needed to pick a priority and said he's better at mtn running and will be working hard at it.

He's not better at mountain running.

The competition is just weaker so relatively he places higher.

A 2:25 marathon is a higher sporting accomplishment than a mountain running, trail or ultra national vest or win.

On the upside he was able to beat the Greek goddess bravey Alexi.

This is also good incentive for our very own Canadian troller to start training to run his first 'Thon in under 3:07.

I'll set aside the recurring, subjective, unanswerable debate and just say

He is going where he can make a splash, which is trail running

Seth is deserving of all criticism here.

When you throw out these insanely lofty goals, you are disrespecting the guys that have actually hit the standards. Especially when you blow up as bad as he did today. If you gonna put this stuff out into the public on YouTube you deserve to be criticized when it blows up in yo face bubba

Don't forget he also tries to draw a straight line from himself to Kilian Jornet based purely on Pikes Peak times so he rates himself as around that level on the mountains even though he really only focuses on one race, whereas Kilian runs and usually wins everything across Europe under 50k's.

I think he also looked at Jim Walmsley and the high mileage Japanese marathon training approach he used for the qualifier but as they say in MMA, there are levels to this sh*t and he has shown himself to be so far below even the level of the top global mountain guys it's laughable. Kilian casually dropped a 30 flat road 10K in those horrible Salomon shoes. Jim has a 2:15 thon on the books. Seth will now go back to spending his days driving/running/driving/gym/vlogging again while his wife silently seethes and his fans pay money to post a chunk of butter to the comments. Back on the hamster wheel, posting rubbish daily videos of only b-roll and chasing FKT's as life slowly passes by...

One of his latest videos he said something like, whoever guesses my finish time or closest to it will get lunch with me.

So, I’m really hoping some troll made a 3:00:00 prediction and takes him up on his offer. Now that, would be some entertaining content.

Devinedwards wrote:

Don’t forget he also has a regular job too.

Links?

Evidence of this?

If he does, then let’s examine his situation a bit…

He has a “regular job.” So 49 hours a week? Even if it’s 20 hours a week, he films “content” everyday and edits it himself, everyday.

That’s who knows how much time to setup cameras inside cupboards so we can see him framed perfectly when he opens it for coffee, in his garage so we can we watch him park his car or do some horrible db curls throwing his back into it, but I digress. Filming and editing alone is probably another ~3 hours per day, so 21 hours per week on this alone.

10/4-10/10 he ran about 19 hours. And of course, this isn’t including driving time to his runs.

Where does this guy have time for his kids?

He doesn’t. He doesn’t have time for anything else in life. That’s why an IKEA chair getting built was a bug deal. Har har har. What a funny guy, he even figured it out all by himself.

The dudes a joke and seems to be an absent father and not really a supportive co-parent to his wife. He’s not charismatic, he’s not interesting, he’s not funny, yet he feels the need to put himself into the world on YouTube every day. Yeah, he’s a pretty fast runner, but why do we care about this guy so much when there are countless others that are better and put in the work?

Bad performance from him but I give him credit for finishing. It must suck to do 10 min miles and people recognize who you are

Is the job comment accurate? In one video he states that he spends lots of hours editing most days.

I watched NYC (Spanish VPN, no commercials, just the race) on my laptop, watched the LA Marathon on my TV, watched the European Cyclocross Nationals on my phone, and this thread is better than any of those.

he definitely got injured, his strava doesn't show evidence of a bonk, more like a bad fall

he ran the last few miles around 6 minutes so im not so sure about that.

also, he 100% doesnt have a job besides youtube. i dont know how long ago he quit whatever job he had, but if youve ever seen even one vid from the last year you would know he doesnt work with his schedule of 30 hour weeks in the mountains.