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A real-life ‘Barney Stinson’ who was so confident he could complete a marathon with zero training got under his wife’s skin to the point that she went out and signed him up for San Diego’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon last weekend. She woke him up 24 hours before and told him that he would be running a marathon in 24 hours… His first response? I need to go to REI.
It is safe to say that he has that dawg in him because over the course of multiple viral videos on TikTok we saw him get geared up, eat accordingly, and then complete the San Diego’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon with zero training.
Did he run the entire marathon? No. But he never claimed that he would. The claim was always that he could complete a a marathon with zero training and he did exactly that. His wife’s first video went viral on TikTok with 6.6 million views where she wakes him up to inform him that he will be running the marathon:
@mizifbaby “I need to go to REI” hahahah #marathon #marathontraining #rocknrollmarathon #surprisingmyhusband #husbandprank
Running A Marathon With Zero Training
After the viral success of that video, she obviously documented the entire saga. In a much later clip, she discussed how not only does her husband not run he doesn’t work out at all while she is a gym rat. Upon being woken up and informed he was running the marathon in San Diego, he knew he needed gear. So he loaded up with Gu (energy fuel), a backpack, new shoes, and more:
@mizifbaby Logan, blink twice if you’re okay 👌🏼 #marathon #marathontraining #rocknrollmarathon #surprisingmyhusband #husbandprank #firsttimemarathoner @CamelBak @adidas @CLIF BAR @Advil
Still in complete and utter denial that her husband would complete the marathon with zero training, she headed to the course. In a later video the wife said she walked 10 miles around the course getting into position to see her husband. Here is her first clip of him running the marathon with literally zero training as he crossed the 11-mile marker.
@mizifbaby UPDATE: he didn’t get the axe at mile 8.3! 🏃🏻♂️💨 #marathon #marathontraining #rocknrollmarathon #surprisingmyhusband #husbandprank #firsttimemarathoner
I mentioned Barney Stinson above, NPH’s character from How I Met Your Mother. There was an entire episode devoted to Barney running the New York Marathon with zero training, which he did, and then his legs completely shut down afterward.
It is unclear if that happened to this dude in San Diego but we know for certain that he completed the 26.2 mile San Diego Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon because one of his wife’s final videos shows him crossing the finish line.
@mizifbaby I’m never going to hear the end of this 🙃 Logan didn’t train, has no running experience, and NEVER works out 😂 when he said he could complete a marathon everyone thought he was crazy because even walking 26.2 miles is tough… Well he proved us all wrong 🥲 Congrats Loggy, im quite literally shocked #marathon #marathontraining #rocknrollmarathon #surprisingmyhusband #husbandprank #firsttimemarathoner
I now need to know what other outlandish claims he is making and when he will make good on them. Also, shout out to him for following through with this after it started simply by his wife waking him up and telling him he was running the marathon with zero training. Even if I thought I was capable of running a marathon with zero training I’m not sure I would actually want to go out and devote an entire Sunday to doing it all on a dare.