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Ok… why would seth not stay there three more days and run the NYC Half in the Rocket X’s to provide an NYC Half recap, a carbon rocket X race recap, and a group run with his fans that ran/spectated the race instead of planning a group run in the middle of the week!
I understand he is not in half Mara race shape. Put the ego aside and do it anyways! and even if Hoka wasn’t paying for it.. the dude should have ran it decked out in Hoka as a thank you for the week events.
Come on businessman!

At 4:30 in today's video, sane person laughs at a sethism.

And, to quote Taron from Elton's '19 movie, he's going to "(true) love me again."

He's definitely no covert narcissist either ;)

What’s up with him? On the spectrum or something? This was a missed opportunity to get in the good graces of a big shoe company for some future business and content. He looked like a bored kid just going through the motions and coming to class without doing the reading. What was the point of this New York trip? I’ve seen hobby joggers at a marathon expo with more enthusiasm and knowledge than this guy.

Thanks everybody for watching this. I think I just go for a run myself instead. It's sunny now.

I am not Seth’s doctor but I do have ADD and in my opinion so does seth.

He should just admit he likes Maffetone and be done with it.

Watching that guy (Florian?) talk about how it takes YEARS to get your HR down and then reap the benefits of wasting years is painful!

Ben Felton (Ben is Running) has talked about how going to these events, making connections, being a good person to work with, has led to more and more opportunities. He just did a series on training in Kenya. Mizuno sent him to Osaka marathon, including going to their design facility. The list goes on.

So why is Seth not able to do this? I think it's because he sees DGr as an actual running company. So of course he doesn't think he belongs in this group of YouTubers who are doing work at the invite of running companies. I think this is where his arrogant attitude comes from. He's there as a Business Man doing R&D work, not making friends or industry connections. The DGr isolation bubble just gets stronger. DGr strong!

YouTube comment on today's video:

@christopherwilliams2

5 hours ago

"Glad to see Seth getting the respect he deserves"

Wait, how is he getting respect? Lol...but Hoka getting some free publicity on their channel? (Unless they comped him for this trip?). Weird comment..

He said to Steph the other day "welcome to DGR" so yeah he sees himself as a running company of sorts. TL does put the hammer down at times and that's why he probably hightailed it back before the NYC half. Would have been a nice race to cover,just did it myself, cold but glorious day for running and filming...clear blue sky all over Manhattan.

His fans always make stupid comments like that. They see what they want to see. If Seth wins a race, it’s because he trained hard and his mad scientist approach worked. If he bonks it’s because of any number of outside factors, and he’s still a hero for even running that far, even getting it done. Look at the comments on the Steph Bruce interview… “you’re such a natural interviewer… so selfless… you should do more.” Seth could literally start a podcast tomorrow and interview any number of runners/industry people. He doesn’t do it because he in fact isn’t selfless and can’t check is own ego. Every human interaction for him needs to be ABOUT HIM, if it isn’t his eyes glaze over and he just nods and pretends to care.

These interviews are kinda low effort. Kinda like raw footage. No context given, limited editing. No introducing topics. No structure. I guess that's typical Seth though.

100% typical. Remember his UTMB videos? No context, no structure. Doesn't even say who the people are, what the race is about, etc. He recycled the same pretty mountain footage in multiple videos.

10/10 take.

It was painfully obvious that there was no effort put into this interview. I doubt that Hoka sprung this opportunity on him the night of the event so why did he not have any questions prepared? No topics lined up for discussion? He seems like he was just winging it and trying to come up with questions on the spot. At the end of today's video he says, "the Hoka Rocket X2 is coming out very soon." Seriously!? This was a launch event, Seth. This shoe was already out when the interview was filmed, never-mind the 2 days later when he posted it. It's possible he was just nervous and misspoke, but with his track record, I doubt that was the case.

I feel bad for the director that had to sit through that painful interview and kindly correct Seth before answering his questions. "When did the original idea for the Hoka Rocket X2 come about?" FFS Seth, it was built on the previous iteration, it wasn't some Ah-Ha moment for a completely new Hoka shoe. Or Seth's question on why Hoka decided to go with a stack height in the Rocket X2 that was lower than most other CFP shoes? Before answering his question she clarifies that they are actually just 1-1.5mm below the World Athletics 40mm regulation and they wanted to get as close as they could without adding anything extra. Did he not do any research ahead of time? Was he not listening to the developers talk about the specs of the shoe beforehand? In all reality he probably didn't and he probably wasn't.

It’s the same reason I suspect Seth either:

1) reads this thread and relishes in the hatred, taking it as some sort of proof of his righteousness or still just a boost to his ego that people care enough to talk about him

2) reads this thread and is absolutely infuriated about it, tries to pretend it doesn’t exist, a la his deleting of any critical YouTube or Strava comments

The third option, which would be to read this and accept the criticism and try to improve from it, isn’t even an option to him. He should honestly go into politics, he could probably be very successful. If you’ve ever met a politician they interact the same way he does, it’s always name dropping, fake concern and kindness, what can you do for me, etc. never anything resembling authenticity.

How depressing is his Strava chart now?

fir someone that believed only in perfect mileage it must be really hard

Seth is an overly active listener. He is constantly interjecting and nodding his head. It’s almost like he isn’t actually paying attention to what they are saying because he’s incapable of focusing, but he wants them to think he’s listening. Case in point: go to the 0:25 mark in today’s video. The Hoka design employee says she’s been with the company for a year and a half. Seth interjects with “wow”. Lol…why is that response worthy of a “wow”?

Totally agree. It comes off so fake. Zero follow-up from him when she answers his questions, just meaningless words or gestures and then on to the next unrelated question. He looks like he is going to burst while he waits for her to stop talking.

I think he wants to develop his own DGr shoe, based on all his questions.