So what’s your best excuse?
We had our weekly TT here in Bend last night, and as always after the race we stand around and hack up a lung and use out best excuses as to way we did this or did not do a good time. Now I my case I did fine cut 17 sec off my time from last month. But we all seem to have a list of excuses, “I had a cold last week” “I did a big interval work out yesterday” I just think it funny that we all seem to have them!
So what did you use last?
Dan…
So what’s your best excuse?
We had our weekly TT here in Bend last night, and as always after the race we stand around and hack up a lung and use out best excuses as to way we did this or did not do a good time. Now I my case I did fine cut 17 sec off my time from last month. But we all seem to have a list of excuses, “I had a cold last week” “I did a big interval work out yesterday” I just think it funny that we all seem to have them!
So what did you use last?
Dan…
We have a rule that excuses have to be registered 15 minutes before the start of any race/ride. In any case, my excuse is usually “I had eye trouble” (I just couldn’t see hurting that much)…
Well, the day before the hillclimb TT states several years ago, I had spent the day up in my attic rewiring some old snakeskin, digging around in blown-in insulation, sucking down dust, sweating profusely…
So of course I told this to my buddies before the race (well before the 15 minute cutoff).
Afterwards, they were all saying they were going to start a new training regimen of diggin in insulation the day before big races…
“They told me at the blood bank that this might happen.”
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My list is way too long to list - Slowman would need another server
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-Probably a minute and a half slower cause my tires are different colors,
-Thirty seconds for the ducttape wrapped around my aerobar.
-Another forty-five seconds for the scratched, and mangled once chrome colored seatpost that doesn’t quite fit my color scheme.
And probably ten or twelve second because my jersey is a slightly different shade than my helmet.
best excuse, in general, is “bowel trouble.” Whenever I was late for class or for school in general, I used this. Got it from a friend of mine, so I can’t take the creative credit. But this is one thing NO ONE wants to know about so it always goes unquestioned…
“This was just a ‘B’ race for me.”.
“I called my coach and he said it was ok to skip this workout” 
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I used Tufo’s
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I usually don’t have to say it and don’t see a reason to, but the last one I would have used is…
“I’m going through chemotherapy right now.”
Good idea for a thread, by the way. I always thought there was such an art to how you drop your excuse so you just happened to mention it so as to not sound like one who is really making excuses. And it is always funny how no one there admits to it, but you always try and “one up” each other on your excuses and go back and forth as subtlely as you can. Like, “oh yeah, work is going pretty well, but it’s taking up so much time that I haven’t eaten all week and through out my back while sitting for so long.” 2nd guy: *“That’s too bad. Yeah, for me things were ok at work, but I’ve mostly been busy at home. I’ve been doing a lot of work on our bathroom, the only thing that sucks is that I haven’t slept more than two hours straight since Monday and I think I have pnuemonia. But no big deal.” *
I have no idea how to spell pnuemonia.
“Back trouble” or “allergies.”
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Leperacy
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I had to stop and puke on mile 5 because I drank too many Colorado Kind Ales at the Mountain Sun last night.
I thought we had to be UCI legal…
“I really think my spleen is enlarged.”
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Dog ate my training plan.
The one I have used to most over the years, frequently to get out of company Xmas parties - “I’d rather stay home and f*ck”. People never question your priorities with that one. Instead you can see the cogs turning as they try to figure out why they are going and didn’t think of it themselves.
I had to save a cat from a burning tree.
“hell, I have brain tumors, lucky I can even walk let alone not drool all over myself”
Go Team Neuro!!!