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

"Would you have really called him out on it? Doubtful."

- Obviously, you don't know me, nor I you, since we're anonymous. I'm not a big fan of bullsh*tters. I would have asked how he planned to go from a 1:27 half to a 2:25 full. Stands to reason.

Oh, the valor and bravery of cyberspace!

we're talking about 2 entirely different things. oh well.

It wasn't really to you...just a GP-type thought about how easy it is to say completely outlandish things on an internet board. People's hidden personality traits really seem to show on chat boards.

Anybody who knows Doris knows how ridiculous it is that she would fabricate this. The mistake must be Bloom's. I'm thinking that on some of these runs Doris would have thrown in a mile at near 5:00 pace, something she was easily capable of. So yeah, SOME of the run "was as fast as 5:00 pace." He just misunderstood what she was saying.

DHB is as straight and honest as they come. Not exactly the life of the party though . . .

I had a girl tell me the other day that she was in a big race and that it took her 11 minutes just to get to the starting line and through the first mile, she said she was so pissed that she ran the next mile in under 5 minutes. Her overall time was over an hour (7 mile course), so I highly doubt she threw a sub 5 mile in there. Plus I didn't even know she ran until she told me that, she's fat.

Wow you brought it back. I loved this thread.

An overweight middle-aged co-worker claimed to run sub-6:00 miles regularly in training and wanted to work out with my buddy and me. We start at about 9:00 pace. He lasted about 400 meters, and we had to stop before a code blue was needed.

i suspect most of these people are NOT lying, but rather truly remember things the was they tell it. I hate to admit this, BUT I always recalled that i ran a 4:26 1600. i was clear on this.

well, i was at my parents' home this week and looked up my hs times. our coach always gave out a booklet at the end of the year with a page on every athlete, which included all their times in every race that season - my time 4:36. i liked my memory better.

I personally witnessed Sydney running that loop at 5 min pace many a morning in 1981, 1982.

This tried to tell me that some Indian went to the Olympics and set a 45 second PR and won the gold medal. And this guy supposedly PR'd in the 5000 en route in this 10000 race.

"I ran a 4:35 indoor at the YMCA on a 30something-lap-to-a-mile track. Now watch me run 5:07 outdoors!"

Man I missed this thread. Wonder if anyone is going to know who I'm talking about on this one.

My dad was a small town high school track/xc coach for 30 years. When I was in college, I kind of got to know one of the better distance runners on the H.S. team even though he was about 5 years younger than me. He was ok athlete for a school of 200 students (4:48-4:50 mile) but was pretty cocky and you could count on him to tell a good lie or two. Anyway, his senior year he tells me that several division I programs are recruiting him and that he could go there but didn't want have the "pressure to perform" that division I programs have. I think he went to some DIII program and lasted about a month on the team before he quit.

If this certain person is reading this post, I'm sure you're pissed off at me but you can email you want. Prior experience tells me that you might just read this.

One time, me and a friend of mine were standing in line at the bank. I had my college track team's shirt on and a guy in line asked us if we ran track for the university. we were like yeah, we run the 400m. He said, "oh really? a buddy of mine used to run the 400. How fast do you guys run it?"

We replied, "About 48 seconds."

To which he replied, "Oh, well my friend was pretty good. He ran about 42". We went on to tell him that the current world record was 43 and some change. But he was positive about his friends 42sec 400m.

Oh, and then...we met this guy who supposedly tried out for some college track team about an hour away. He said that he ran the 400m in 47sec and the coach told him that wasn't fast enough and he would have to run a 44 to run the 400m for the team. We were like, "Dude, nobody has ever run a 44 for that college. Come to think of it, we've never heard of anyone running under 47 from that school(this was one of the worst track schools in NC)." But of course, the guy was sticking to his story.

How about that fat Kenyan that was saying he was a great lover and wanted American Citizenship and said he ran 1330 for 5k when he ran like 1530 at fourth of July picnic race.

You know who I am talking about!!

redmeansdead wrote:

One time, me and a friend of mine were standing in line at the bank. I had my college track team's shirt on and a guy in line asked us if we ran track for the university. we were like yeah, we run the 400m. He said, "oh really? a buddy of mine used to run the 400. How fast do you guys run it?"

We replied, "About 48 seconds."

To which he replied, "Oh, well my friend was pretty good. He ran about 42". We went on to tell him that the current world record was 43 and some change. But he was positive about his friends 42sec 400m.

Could have been 400 yds? The girl's track coach at my HS had a world record in some event like that (1000 yards?) for a little while when they started keeping track of records. I never had a reason not to believe that one...

An oldish guy came up to me on the street in NYC and asked me what i run for a mile. I told him it was "real slow". He pointed to himself with his thumb and said, "4:01" with a cooky smile, and walked off towards the tennis courts in central park.

The biggest bullshitter i've ever met was a guy I met one summer claimed he ran Boston in 2:30 a couple years ago (not officially, of course, but claimed was a bandit). The guy weighed 220 pounds, and said he was 180 at the time -- it wasn't muscle. Imagine how fast he would be if he lost 30 pounds of fat. :) He did a few runs with me (i run my easy runs very easy) and basically had trouble keeping up, had to stop a few times. He later saw me run a 5:40 on the track at the end of an easy threshold-type workout, and told people it was a 4:40 when i was standing next to him. I was a *bit* embarrassed, i had to correct him and say it was 5:40. I think he even argued with me about it.

Some muscle bound 100m football jerk claimed to run our 4 mile XC practice loop in under 21 minutes.

"I just opened up my stride, bro"

I remember being told by the marathon training group at my college that a loop that we knew for a fact(it's probably been run by our xc and track team since the 70s for all I know) to be 6 miles was in fact 9 miles! I was also told that the 9 mile version of the same loop was in fact 12 miles! holy crap!