Biggest Bullshit Lie You've Ever Heard About Running Times or Workouts

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I must admit as a freshman in H.S I told the coach I ran a 2:00 flat 800m of course I was lying through my teeth it was a 2:19. He said when are you going to show me that 800m form? Finally I stayed after school and trained with the team.....looked like crap, felt like crap never came back! As a sophmore I finally ran 2:14...the Juniors and Seniors were cracking on me so hard b/c of my fat lie! Did I quit? no I ended the season with a 2:02 and the second leg on the varsity 4X800 whoo hooo.

Hmmm. Last year, my senior year in XC I was the captain and number one runner. A freshman came on and kept on boasting his 4:10 mile he ran in 8th grade. Sadly much of the team were taken on by it. At the second interval workout that year we ran 3 1 mile repeats. I beat him on the first two, and got a little excited. Right before we started the third one I got right up to his face and said.. "Come the hell on Alex! Take me!" He sprinted beside me for about the first 200. I ran a 4:37 and he ran a 5:12. The rest of that year was tough for him, lol.

Sorry to say this, but a lot of the Hansons' training logs posted online.. "easy run got down to 5:10's, feeling like a jog" every single day! Yeah, they run sub-6 on a lot of their runs, but this sub-5:20 stuff every day I doubt.

I have a teamate who states that in hs he broke 5 minutes everyday as a warmup before his workouts. Yeah, I bet. Not only did he happen to break 5 minutes every single day, when he did 200m repeats, he would run 25 sec.X10 reps. Umm, doubt it. His PR in hs was barely under 4:30. Now that he is in college, his 25s have some how disappeared. This guy is so full of it, I could write a book on the bullshit he dishes out.

A baseball player who decided to come out and run cross-country his junior year of college(the guy never ran a step since high school, and came out to run low 27's) told us that in high school before his state cross country meet in Ohio, he ran 60 x 400.

anything scott wolfe says...making us mountain team, running sun 15, making world ultra team...the list goes on. This guy is famous...or infamous perhaps

my ex barber is in like his mid 20's and he claims that he ran a 4:20 mile in hs, nad he went my hs, so of course i would of hear of him right? now this guy now does all sorts of drugs and prob did them in hs too, so i really thik he's lying

This kid durin' my senior year in HS was supposedly running 16 miles a day and skipped classes middle of the day to go run. Rumor was that he could sprint a mile also. So one day I talked to him and we ran. He ran alright, ran him right into the damn ground when I made him run 4x800 with me followed by a 6 mile run. 16 miles a day my ass. puhlease yo.

There was this kid who ran in Washinton State, real nerdy looking. Supposedly he ran like 66 mile long runs during the weekends and 350 weekly miles. I mean, the claim was also that he ran at all times. He also crushed the pace. And then he goes on to claim he is America's distance god.

lol!

The baseball team at my school is "the" crowd to be in if, you know, you're a senior and therefore God's gift to 14-year-old freshman girls. Anyway, they claim to run 3 times around our campus for a total of 9 miles each day before practice in baseball cleats, pants, etc. I don't doubt the garb, as I've seen them doing it before, but the 9 miles? One day I might explain to them that I usually don't average much under 8min pace for my training runs, and I have run around the campus for a cooldown in 7-8 minutes dog-tired after hard workouts.

Another good one: I knew this, to put it nicely, horizontally gifted girl who played soccer (claimed she was pretty good at it). She was going to an all-star soccer camp down south for the week during the summer and told me that, just to qualify, all of the girls had to be able to break 6 minutes in the mile, and by the end of the week they were supposed to be under 5. For some reason she didn't see how impossible that was; after all, just because I was running 60 miles a week at that time and still have yet to break 5 shouldn't mean that she can't.

As a side note, this is a great thread.

Sorry to reply to myself, but I thought this one was worth mentioning, too:

I have a certain teacher who ran about 1:47 in practice in college, but never got to run in a meet because the guys around him were going 1:45ish. Too bad his alma mater's school record is 1:46.

He's a good guy and a great teacher, but he didn't qualify for the Olympics, so he stopped running. The surprising thing is that he knows all about the elite guys from the 70s which would have been his prime decade. He knows all about the training from that era of the Africans, the Japanese, the Americans, everybody.

Could be that his school is listing 800 records, and he ran 880 yards. Some schools started their record books over when they went metric - many schools (including mine) did this in the late 70's - early 80's. But I'm not bitter.......

Okay, I've got one for you all about military guys and their fibbing....My junior year track season, there was this guy who I sat near in my math class. He had just heard in the school announcements that I broke my school's record for 1600 in 4:17 (prev 4:20). Well, this kid was like "bs", I know the worlds record isn't even under 5 flat..I was like, okay, he doesn't know, so I'll try to correct him. But he got real bent out of shape and tried calling me out or something? He told me he was in my school's ROTC and he just got back from a 2 week "mini bootcamp" where he had to run two miles in combat boots on a gravel road in 9:30 or something. Of course, I tried to give him the benefit of the doubt, but obviously this guy has no clue. So, I was like alright, come out to one of our track practices and run a two mile with me. Instead this kid joins the track team! Now, I am really getting annoyed with this kid. Well, I talked my coach into letting him travel to a meet with us to race the deuce. Reluctantly he did, and he raced a JV two mile and ran 12 something and even stopped to tie his shoe three times! I couldn't help but laugh my ass off....

Needless to say I did end up joining the navy.....

the dudes who claimed they ran across the country really did it. they stopped in at the store where I work. swear to god.

Take it easy on the military guys there buddy. Most guys in the military do not understand the "running world/cult". The just run what they are told. Now don't get me wrong there are bullshitters out there, but I would say most of it is out of ignorance.

Now about that guys who said he made the world mountain team. I once heard a story he ran mid 8:00 for the steeple out of high school. Ha Ha

A teammate of mine, who will remain nameless for the sake of his pride, has told many a whopper in his day. The best by far, however, was the story of how his dad had run 1:44 indoors. We all knew his dad had been a half-miler and a good one at that, but my teammate's reasoning behind why his dad never posted such times outdoors was the real kicker: the poor guy's left leg was significantly shorter than the right, allowing him to excel on tracks with tight turns but limiting him on those 400-meter ovals. Hysterical.

Some goon told me that he did 40 quarters under 70 seconds during a workout and when he told me his 3 mile time, I almost died with laughter. How can you run 40 quarters under 70, but can only run a 16 min. 3 mile??? Bullshit.

I asked him how come he didn't run in college and he told me he wasn't good enough.

I work in a Lab at school, and our female tech-5'0", 95 pounds found out that i run. to make a long story short, she asked what i could run a quarter in, i said around 50 seconds, she told me in high school gym she ran 55 seconds. after some argument, i told her i would give her 20:1 odds that she couldn't run that plus 20 seconds to correct for hand-timing. she didn't talk to me for a while.