Literally my favourite UA-cam videos are the runners weekend ones. Always so well done 👏🏽 Thank you. Just applied for a guaranteed place so fingers crossed I’m accepted and be there in 2025. The virtual experience was great though 🥳
I enjoyed my first world marathon major - Chicago Marathon 2024. Shame that I didn't do much research to locate the events you had planned to attend, but wala - saw you cheering for all the runners at 38K - ish. Finally saw my favourite UA-camr in Chicago! Managed to pick up my pace in the most difficult part of the race. thank you for being there for all of us!
Loved the entire video, especially your footage of the elites crossing the finish. To see the emotion on their faces at that moment - wow! 👏👍 "Make no small plans..." Thanks for the quote!
I've been a runner for years, and I finally participated in my first race today, thanks to you. Seeing all the fun you have at races and the encouragement you give to your fellow runners inspired me. I'm training for my first marathon, so my time wasn't the best, but I had so much fun just being there. Thank you for giving me the courage to do something outside my comfort zone.
I so appreciate your videos that helped me navigate a first major, and your welcoming shakeout that helped me feel a part of a larger community (Not to mention legitimacy in my teenage daughter’s eyes, for making an appearance in a UA-cam video 😊).
""Alright it's gonna be a women's world record. Holy crap". Real goosebumps. Handheld footage so raw. Editing sublime. Thanks for the whole Chi '24 experience / front-row seat from here in London Michael. Hope you've got legs still for NYC!
Thank you for this one, Ko!! I lost my way over the last year (new baby girl though so that’s worth it 😃) and have been binge watching your stuff to get me back into the swing of things. Finally feeling my old self coming back and this one makes me want to run Chicago so bad. I hope you have a great evening!
Great video, also great to meet you on the Thursday at the expo. Now with time off work around the holidays get to binge watch youtube and catch up on everything I missed
Such a humble individual! I've actually run a marathon four times before, but I never tried the shake-out run until now, all because of you. It was such a great coincidence that I got to run alongside you, it truly made my day.
Hi Kofuzi, thank you so much for this video. I was suppose to run CHI this year but missed it due to a surgery and visa issues. Decided to defer it. After watching this video, it just made me a bit sad on how awesome CHI2024 is and that I missed it. But at the same time, this inspired me to push thru for CHI2025. Thank you for the inspiration. I got teary eyes after watching this vid. Thank you. -Angelo
The pacing of the footage to music as the elite athletes walk in is intense-it had me pumped, and I’m just watching this during downtime on my night shift!
Great video as always Mike. Only just got around to watching it. Keep saying it, but your ‘Runner’s Weekend’ videos are the best and my fav. Got to run Chicago in 2018 and had a great weekend. Hope to get back at some point in the future (after I manage to get into Boston 🦄😀)
Always look forward to these videos, some of the best ones on YT. I was so excited to finally be able to do one of your shakeout runs and actually run alongside you for a bit!
Loved this! It was so fun to run this race again after not running it since 2000, when there were a mere 27,956 runners, LOL! With so much going on it was difficult to do everything that I wanted to do & unfortunately that meant I didn't make it to any of your gigs so it was fun to watch this! Hope to see you at another run soon!
Had an awesome time Kofuzi! Thanks for treating all us runners to an awesome run along the lakefront and some delicious pancakes! I also made it into the video, although I'm way in the back, I can see myself. Hope to return soon to Chicago for another wonderful time!
Time to go frame by frame during the shakeout portion to try and spot myself. Thanks for having such a great event Edit. The corner of my head made it. Bucket list item achieved Second edit. Got in the run footage. My life is complete now
Sometimes a trip back home is all you need. Thanks for taking us along for the ride! 💕 On another note… hello?? 199K?? Woo hoo!! Level up!🎉 See you at 200K!!
Love these runner's weekend video. And I am so happy I was able to join the shakeout run in person. I missed getting the t-shirt, but I got to meet Mike and also spotted myself in the video 😁😄
35:38 You're too kind Ko, it was so cool meeting you as well, I still cannot believe you recognized me 😅We'll have to meet up again sometime in the future!
@@kofuzi That would be amazing 🤩 will train harder, work harder 😉 Btw, can you suggest how to get Coros watches on a better deal 🤝 It will help cos it's so expensive 😎
Always an awesome view on the runners weekend👉👊👈. I’m flying in from Shanghai to the TRE next month. Hope to see on the panel there. Love have a group run with you🤓
25:36 is Daniel Simiu Ebenyo, 10000M silver medalist at 2023WorldChampionships Budapest Hungary and 2nd place finish in 21km at world road running championships in Riga Latvia. There's something special about these runners weekend vids, starting from background music, slow mo's and etc, they're soothing to me❤
Hey Mike what a great runners weekend Chicago Marathon video!!! I enjoy it because I was there running my 9 th Chicago marathon I hope you will running next year you see there 👍
It was a fun surprise passing you as you stood in the median on Michigan ave after making the turn north! I couldn’t tell if it was actually you or marathon brain 😂
I like to imagine that there is a Tracksmith intern who goes back to school after the weekend to regale their classmates with stories about how they put novelty stickers on bananas all weekend
Crazy they didn't grant you better press creds in your home race. UA-cam is the new media, and the choice of the people. The world needs to catch up. Great work, regardless!
I have a theory that most races believe that, as long as the old school press corps isn’t grumpy or grumbling, the press conference is a success. That’s why there is now a segregated “new media” zone at a lot of big track meets. It keeps new media away from legacy media and out of the mix zone.
Awesome footage. It was my 3rd Chicago marathon. My best moment was meeting Emily Sisson at the Skyline tent and I asked her to wish me good luck before the race and she did, she said “you got this”. That alone was worth the price of the Skyline tent ticket. I did not know then but it was her birthday a day before the race.
How far did you end up running filming this - must have been a marathon in itself! How does someone find out about the various events, pop-ups, shakeout runs etc? Looks like a lot of fun and hard work, ty.
Hello Mr. Kofuzi. I just got the email that I have been accepted at Chicago Marathon 2025. I am from Pakistan and I love your videos. I really hope I get to see you next year IA and hopefully get to run with you in one of your shakeout runs. I am watching you Chicago Marathon Runner's Weekend to enjoy this moment. Love you
KO I think running that lakefront gave you all the feels to come back and run CHI next year, matter of fact gave me some too i think i may throw my hat in the ring for the lottery again and see if i can do it as a 50 year old.
Lake front run, Classic Kofuzi moment 😢 👏🏽. Is there a link we can get the ASICS shirt?? If not it’s ok Also with the Lotery open for 2025… are any of the extras worth it? The pre-race fast pace? Would love your thoughts on all that. Going to apply for 2025. Thnx!
Don't worry about not making it in and having limited media access. The CEO of LetsRun (4chan of the running world) had press conference access and, as expected of someone who runs a site like that, he callously asked "that" question that got him in hot water with the Kenyan parliament. It's better not to be associated with people like that.
The pre-race press conference afforded a few minutes with the athletes, career fair style, and I would have liked to have gotten a few words from some of the athletes to pair with their race footage
Literally my favourite UA-cam videos are the runners weekend ones. Always so well done 👏🏽 Thank you. Just applied for a guaranteed place so fingers crossed I’m accepted and be there in 2025. The virtual experience was great though 🥳
I hope to cheer you on next year!
@@kofuzi that would be amazing and hope to meet you at one of your runs 😊🙌🏽
I enjoyed my first world marathon major - Chicago Marathon 2024. Shame that I didn't do much research to locate the events you had planned to attend, but wala - saw you cheering for all the runners at 38K - ish. Finally saw my favourite UA-camr in Chicago! Managed to pick up my pace in the most difficult part of the race. thank you for being there for all of us!
So happy to hear you were able to finish strong!
Loved the entire video, especially your footage of the elites crossing the finish. To see the emotion on their faces at that moment - wow! 👏👍
"Make no small plans..." Thanks for the quote!
There’s nothing like people finishing a marathon
I've been a runner for years, and I finally participated in my first race today, thanks to you. Seeing all the fun you have at races and the encouragement you give to your fellow runners inspired me. I'm training for my first marathon, so my time wasn't the best, but I had so much fun just being there. Thank you for giving me the courage to do something outside my comfort zone.
I so appreciate your videos that helped me navigate a first major, and your welcoming shakeout that helped me feel a part of a larger community (Not to mention legitimacy in my teenage daughter’s eyes, for making an appearance in a UA-cam video 😊).
Thank you for being a part of this weekend!
Thanks for another runner's weekend! I always especially look forward to these videos.
thank you so much. these are my favorite to make
The beat change for the morning of the race and showing the pros arriving... Epic! Gave perfect race morning vibes!
Thank you!
Incredible vlogg, I really really enjoyed watching this-Ko you are ABSOLUTELY MASSIVE in the game! Well done
thank you, Alf
No one captures a race quite like you, Kofuzi! Another banger 👌
love these runners weekend videos very much - thanks for going through all the effort of making these!
thanks for watching!
""Alright it's gonna be a women's world record. Holy crap". Real goosebumps. Handheld footage so raw. Editing sublime. Thanks for the whole Chi '24 experience / front-row seat from here in London Michael. Hope you've got legs still for NYC!
I’m spectating New York, so I should be ok
Glad to hear you were able to get so much out of this one. Thanks for taking us along for the journey 👍🏼
tearing up every time. thanks for the awesome content, Michael!
Glad you enjoy it!
Been looking for this!
Great vid as always! Salute to Mike for making this and brought to us!
Thanks for watching!
Thank you for this one, Ko!! I lost my way over the last year (new baby girl though so that’s worth it 😃) and have been binge watching your stuff to get me back into the swing of things. Finally feeling my old self coming back and this one makes me want to run Chicago so bad. I hope you have a great evening!
Brendon!!! great to hear from you again and congratulations on the wonderful news!
@@kofuzi Thanks so much! It is so, so much better than I could have ever imagined. 😍
Great video, also great to meet you on the Thursday at the expo. Now with time off work around the holidays get to binge watch youtube and catch up on everything I missed
As always beautiful coverage. Keep up the great work Ko!
thank you
Such a humble individual! I've actually run a marathon four times before, but I never tried the shake-out run until now, all because of you. It was such a great coincidence that I got to run alongside you, it truly made my day.
Great to run with you!
What a great video! I love these "runner's weekends"!! Thanks so much!
thanks so much! these are my favorite kind of videos to make
Hi Kofuzi, thank you so much for this video.
I was suppose to run CHI this year but missed it due to a surgery and visa issues. Decided to defer it.
After watching this video, it just made me a bit sad on how awesome CHI2024 is and that I missed it. But at the same time, this inspired me to push thru for CHI2025. Thank you for the inspiration. I got teary eyes after watching this vid. Thank you.
-Angelo
Glad you enjoined this video. Hope to see you at the shakeout next year!
The pacing of the footage to music as the elite athletes walk in is intense-it had me pumped, and I’m just watching this during downtime on my night shift!
Runners weekend are my favorite, always present a compelling narrative, love the personal take at the end.
Great video as always Mike. Only just got around to watching it. Keep saying it, but your ‘Runner’s Weekend’ videos are the best and my fav. Got to run Chicago in 2018 and had a great weekend. Hope to get back at some point in the future (after I manage to get into Boston 🦄😀)
Awesome video man! No one has creativity and storytelling into a video like you!
thank you 🙏
Thank you for taking me to Chicago, never been, your runner’s weekend videos are my favorite.
Glad to share a little piece of Chicago with you!
Always giving your best! Love these runners weekend videos. Thanks Mike.
Thanks so much!
Always look forward to these videos, some of the best ones on YT. I was so excited to finally be able to do one of your shakeout runs and actually run alongside you for a bit!
thanks for coming to the shakeout. great to run with you!
So cool I got to meet up with Kofuzi as we come out for a walk in the park. Thanks for the sympathy and the positive chicago vibes!
thanks for coming!
Loved this! It was so fun to run this race again after not running it since 2000, when there were a mere 27,956 runners, LOL! With so much going on it was difficult to do everything that I wanted to do & unfortunately that meant I didn't make it to any of your gigs so it was fun to watch this! Hope to see you at another run soon!
Glad you had a good race weekend!
Had an awesome time Kofuzi! Thanks for treating all us runners to an awesome run along the lakefront and some delicious pancakes! I also made it into the video, although I'm way in the back, I can see myself. Hope to return soon to Chicago for another wonderful time!
Thanks for joining on the run. Glad you had a good time!!
Time to go frame by frame during the shakeout portion to try and spot myself. Thanks for having such a great event
Edit. The corner of my head made it. Bucket list item achieved
Second edit. Got in the run footage. My life is complete now
Glad you made the cut!!!
Your videos always so emotional. Thanks 😊
thanks for watching!
It was nice to meet you at the expo, thanks for the selfie and the good vibes! Greetings from Chihuahua Mexico.
Nice to meet you too!
What an awesome video!! congrats Kofuzi!
Thank you!
what a nice videos!! so many fans took a selfies with you, love it ...
thanks for watching!
Sometimes a trip back home is all you need. Thanks for taking us along for the ride! 💕 On another note… hello?? 199K?? Woo hoo!! Level up!🎉 See you at 200K!!
It feels like it was stuck at 194k for a while, and now 199 has snuck up on me
Love the subtle Emma Coburn “a mom” caption. So happy for her and Joe!!! Great video as usual!
it was great news to hear
Love these runner's weekend video. And I am so happy I was able to join the shakeout run in person.
I missed getting the t-shirt, but I got to meet Mike and also spotted myself in the video 😁😄
Thank you for coming!!
Great seeing you out there my dude!
Great to see you too!
Here we go. 🎉
Nothing can beat the hometown vibe.
Thank you for another epic Runner's Weekend.
thank you for your support 🙏
Beautiful from start to finish!!
Thank you so much!
This is a piece of art. Thank you so much.
thank you so much 🙏
Epic recap as always 🎉🥳 Awesome meeting you over the Chicago weekend!
awesome to meet you too!
Good to hear you feel energised after not running - being a content creator and running so many races can for sure be exhausting. take good care :)
I feel better now. It took me a while to realize I was feeling not-good
@@kofuzi love to hear it! hope to meet you soon :)
35:38 You're too kind Ko, it was so cool meeting you as well, I still cannot believe you recognized me 😅We'll have to meet up again sometime in the future!
For sure!
Amazing, sights and sounds from Chicago ❤ @kafuzi at his best 😊 hopefully one day I will be there running 😊
hope to run with you soon!
@@kofuzi That would be amazing 🤩 will train harder, work harder 😉
Btw, can you suggest how to get Coros watches on a better deal 🤝 It will help cos it's so expensive 😎
Love this series! You captured the weekend perfectly. I ended up enjoying it myself too & got a PR
Congratulations!! 🔔🔔
Always an awesome view on the runners weekend👉👊👈. I’m flying in from Shanghai to the TRE next month. Hope to see on the panel there. Love have a group run with you🤓
I'll be around
Great looking forward meeting you 🤓
Congratulations, Kofuzi. !!! You did it!!!!. Like from 🇪🇸 Spain. Have a great day.
thank you
It was nice to meet you in ASICS shakeout run and in ON store, Kofuzi! The 🥞 tee is very nice 👍
nice to meet you too!
Finally got to meet you in person in Chicago! Thank you for inspiring me to run!
It was great to meet you!
Loved thissss!!! Saw my Filipino club mates who joined the shakeout for a split second haha!
Hopefully you’ll be able to join for the next one!
That is what I call an fulfilling weekend. So much packed in and nothing went to waste.
it was the Chicago I needed
Race footage was elite! Great video
Team effort
25:36 is Daniel Simiu Ebenyo, 10000M silver medalist at 2023WorldChampionships Budapest Hungary and 2nd place finish in 21km at world road running championships in Riga Latvia. There's something special about these runners weekend vids, starting from background music, slow mo's and etc, they're soothing to me❤
Glad you enjoy them!
Seeing Ryan Hall labeled just as "Coach" might be a bit of an understatement 😅
It’s also a bit of an overstatement, too, as he is stepping away from it.
Hey Mike what a great runners weekend Chicago Marathon video!!! I enjoy it because I was there running my 9 th Chicago marathon I hope you will running next year you see there 👍
Congratulations on your finish!!
Outstanding!
Thank you
It was a fun surprise passing you as you stood in the median on Michigan ave after making the turn north! I couldn’t tell if it was actually you or marathon brain 😂
hope you had a great race!
Tagging Thomas as the pigeon 😂😂😂 also I didn’t notice the Tracksmith banana stickers! That’s fun!
I like to imagine that there is a Tracksmith intern who goes back to school after the weekend to regale their classmates with stories about how they put novelty stickers on bananas all weekend
@@kofuzi This mental picture sparks joy
Awesome video as always 👍
Thank you
Nice.. Really enjoy watching this video… Thanks sir.. keep doing.. supporter from Malaysia is here…
Thanks for watching!
@@kofuzi most welcome
Crazy they didn't grant you better press creds in your home race. UA-cam is the new media, and the choice of the people. The world needs to catch up. Great work, regardless!
I have a theory that most races believe that, as long as the old school press corps isn’t grumpy or grumbling, the press conference is a success.
That’s why there is now a segregated “new media” zone at a lot of big track meets. It keeps new media away from legacy media and out of the mix zone.
Brilliant- really takes you into the race and weekend
Thank you so much!
Awesome footage. It was my 3rd Chicago marathon. My best moment was meeting Emily Sisson at the Skyline tent and I asked her to wish me good luck before the race and she did, she said “you got this”. That alone was worth the price of the Skyline tent ticket. I did not know then but it was her birthday a day before the race.
Skyline tent is always a good decision
Hi Kofuzi. Thanks for the selfie. Met u outside fleet feet when u were resting from your run 😊
sorry I was so sweaty
@@kofuzi was lucky to catch u there thanks a lot
I appreciate that you always respond to my comments.
I try
This was beautiful
thank you
Amazing week !
It was the Chicago Marathon I needed
The best video! (Also, Matt Centrowitz: "Keira D'Amato's friend" ☠🤣)
Funny and true
Mainstream media won’t be able to deny you in the future coz us who watch your coverages know you pour love and passion into your own coverages
I’ll try to request access to the press conference specifically next year. I am not anticipating a different result, and I’m ok with that
And the wait is over!
thanks for your help Luke! great to meet you!
How far did you end up running filming this - must have been a marathon in itself! How does someone find out about the various events, pop-ups, shakeout runs etc? Looks like a lot of fun and hard work, ty.
I logged about ten miles on marathon morning, not including a lot of walking
Such a great time in Chi town!
Enjoyed the video. Would be great to know what the orange sunglasses are. Would you mind identifying them?
wake up babe new runner’s weekend just dropped
🫶
Thank you Mike.
my pleasure
@@kofuzi 🤩
Love the detail of adding Emma Coburn’s context profession as Mom
very happy for her and her growing family
🔥🔥🔥
I appreciate your love of coffee wherever you go.
Recently, I had to go an entire day without coffee. It was a long day
@@kofuzi that sounds like a dark day.
9:38 - nearly spit my coffee
we don't know that it wasn't Thomas. I don't have confirmation of an alternate alibi
Me too. I had to rewind to double check what I saw
Hello Mr. Kofuzi. I just got the email that I have been accepted at Chicago Marathon 2025. I am from Pakistan and I love your videos.
I really hope I get to see you next year IA and hopefully get to run with you in one of your shakeout runs.
I am watching you Chicago Marathon Runner's Weekend to enjoy this moment.
Love you
Chicago ❤
it has my heart
Hope to see you next week in NY 😊
I’ll be around. Keep Saturday morning open
@@kofuzi Great 👍
KO I think running that lakefront gave you all the feels to come back and run CHI next year, matter of fact gave me some too i think i may throw my hat in the ring for the lottery again and see if i can do it as a 50 year old.
I had a lot of fun spectating this year. I plan on doing the same next year.
It is a pretty special race though
Awesome as always! Will you be participating in NY marathon?
I’ll be around. I’m doing a shakeout run with Runna on Saturday morning. I’ll put a link to rsvp in the description
17:24 Vermont would like to talk to you about this
This Vermonter agrees! No need to go to Canada for your good maple syrup, Ko!
We’re a long way from Vermont over here, but I concede your point.
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Waited for this 😢
thank you for your patience
who wouldn't want a selfie with Kofuzi? You're the nicest guy in distance running.
That’s very kind of you to say
Greetings from Virgin Islands!
Yo!
Lake front run, Classic Kofuzi moment 😢 👏🏽.
Is there a link we can get the ASICS shirt?? If not it’s ok
Also with the Lotery open for 2025… are any of the extras worth it? The pre-race fast pace? Would love your thoughts on all that. Going to apply for 2025. Thnx!
Get the skyline tent
Did the old lady said my new fiancé? at @1:48? LMAO Congratulations on the engagement I guess!!
Yes she did. She was super sweet. A 6 star finisher
Rewatching this one since I got into the Chicago Lottery haha
congratulations!
Awesome video. Will you be in NY?
yes. I'll be a guest appearance at the Runna Saturday shakeout. details in description
@@kofuzi Awesome. Looking forward to it.
Got major fomo for that jacket. Can’t find it on Bandit, have you got it ahead of the release?
9:38 Great footage of Thomas Neuberger
He doesn’t always let me get close up like that
Emma Coburn, a mom!! ❤❤❤
It was good news to hear
Don't worry about not making it in and having limited media access. The CEO of LetsRun (4chan of the running world) had press conference access and, as expected of someone who runs a site like that, he callously asked "that" question that got him in hot water with the Kenyan parliament. It's better not to be associated with people like that.
I wasn’t planning on going to the post-race press conference tho
The pre-race press conference afforded a few minutes with the athletes, career fair style, and I would have liked to have gotten a few words from some of the athletes to pair with their race footage
Did I spot Thomas the pigeon? 😂
you didn't not-see him
Finally..... The suspense is over!
thanks for waiting!