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

I once heard a 45 year old guy tell me he had run '1:46 on the road'..talking about an 800m...also a 46s 400 on the road. I dont think he was right in the head...oh add in doing sub 4 mile repeats...he was not talking about back in the day either...he was talking about the other day.

No real lies here but just weird thinking. We'd just run the local 4th of July 5k. I'd done alright, nothing blazing or even a victory. An acquaintaince came up and was congratulating me and was also asking about our Sunday ten milers. I told him to come on out and that we usually did about 7min pace maybe a bit slower. He said great and and promised to be there the next morning and was looking forward to running with us. I then asked how his race went and what kind of time he had. He said he had his fastest time in a while at 22 and change...I started doing the math and was thinking hmmmmm...

I always got the presidential fitness test award. My senior year I ran a 4:11 mile in PE.

Okay, that is a big bullshit lie, it was 5:10, but I was proud!

I used to bike a lot. There is a guy in my town who is mentally disabled and bicycles a lot. One day we were talking to a local hot girl and he just out of nowhere says "Lets race, I can beat you." Well I had placed high in a mountain bike race and won a hill climb race and I used to be able to sprint over 30 MPH. so I said ok. We set up a short course, less then a mile. This dude killed me in the race by about 40 meters. He was fast. If you ever hear about a mentally disable bicyclist racer coming out of nowhere this will probably be the guy.

My husband has been telling people he ran the Boston Marathon! BOSTON! First he said it was in the 1970s, then in the 80s, now he does not know.

In fairness to him, he is not lying about his time, b/c he "can't rememeber it."

Classic!

Keep this one on page one....

John Kerry ran Boston.

I had a friend tell me that he ran a 47sec 400M in high school and that his teammate ran 41.

1)I was accepted into a boarding high-school and was ready to try out for the XC team. I was really nervous and had only run XC for one year (this was 11th grade). This one senior walked up to me and said, "What's your PR?" At the time it was only 22:00. She said, "Oh that's good. My best is an 18 flat." I was blown away, but, later on, doing mile repeats, she ran with me and died at first half mile. I only ran a 7:00 for the first mile! Consequently, she never broke a 25:00 that season...and blamed it on having too much homework.

2)The biggest running lie on my mom's side of the family is that my uncle ran a 4:00 mile. Every time my parents would talk about one of my races (or even basketball games!), my grandma would go on and on about how he could run a 4:00 mile but never went to practice. They also supposedly have newspaper clippings in some scrap book, but that scrap book is always mysteriously missing when I go to visit...

3) And then there's the girl who ran a 2:15 800m. Her best all season was a 2:35, and blamed it on the lack of coaching. She also claimed that she ran a low 5:00 mile, but could never beat me (I have always sucked in the single mile and my PR is 5:59..and that wasn't until this year hahaha).

Funny how many people lie about times...

I once had a girl who just joined oour track team tell me that she would beat me in the mile and had just run 4:30 with her dad. I found this a little odd one because there was no way she could run 4:30 and two because not more than three weeks ago I had won the state two mile. She then went on to say she could run 2:10, she turned out to be pretty good running 2:29 but that was still a far cry from her claims.

most lies are half truths

Okay, here's one:

I work at a running specialty store. This chunky guy comes waddling in, and asks what the fastest marathon course "around" is. So, I rattle off a few of the better marathons in the US, and he says "No, I mean the fastest marathon course in Europe, or overseas somewhere. I am going to try to run under 2:09, at LEAST a sub-2:12." So I say, smirking the whole time, "Okay, maybe try Berlin, or London." So, he proceeds to tell me about his 40-mile weeks, and I ask him how he will manage to run that fast off of such low mileage. He says first he wants to try to break his PR in the half-marathon, which is 61:00. He was 5"8"-185, beer-gutted. I was like, "Wow, what's your name, that has to be one of the top 5 fastest half-marathon times ever by an American!" So he's starting to get nervous, he tells me his name is something I have never heard, (Phillip McCrevice, etc.). I asked him what half he was running, and he said "The Tijuana Half-Marathon!" I told him that was a great half-marathon, and I got my PR there (it doesn't exist). So he goes on about all his great running feats, while I SELL him some shoes. I told him was the fastest guy I knew who had to buy his own product, then asked him not to come in and insult the staff at the store anymore, and basically told him he was full of shit. Then gave him a good "Welp, see ya later!" Dumb and Dumber-style, and sent him on his way. Couldn't believe it!

On Superstars, Lou Ferrigno runs like a 2:59 880 and then he tells all the roidheads in Muscle and Fitness and Joe Weider,(say the name a 1000 times),that he ran damn near a 4 minute mile.Not only is he deaf but he is dum.

Some guy that can't debate and is not so smart but has the controls to the most powerful weapons on the planet claims to run 7 minute pace on his six mile runs when he can barely squeak out a 21 and change 5k race.

I had a customer tell me a few weeks ago that the Navy Seals, as a fitness requirement, have to be able to run 20 miles at 5min pace on the beach. So the Navy Seals are the greatest distance runners on the planet.

I think I looked up the SEAL physical requirements one time, and I recall that they must only be able to "finish" a 13-mile run. No insult to the best soldiers on the planet, but they're not world class distance runners.

i run with this kid we call franchise on the xc team who claimed he lead his bball team to the state title his freshman year. ive seen the kid play ball and he looks like a decent playground baller but nothing for the court. so what did i do? i looked up the results and printed them out of that yr. sure enough his team wasnt on there and i confronted him at practice. i sure made an ass out of him, but i didnt need to do that cause he claims the piaa made a mistake. i know its not running but its still a big bullshit lie since they didnt even make the district playoffs.

Got one to add from last weekend's 5k road race.

This guy finishes in 23:18, and later talks to me about how when he was a sophomore in high school he finished dead last in the 5k w/a time of 30 minutes. That I believed, b/c he's plump. Then he said he ran a whole bunch the summer of his sophomore year in college (not for the team), and was running regular 4 mile runs of under 20 minutes. I just gasped and said that was really fast. I asked him why he didn't run for the xc team then, and he said he just didn't want to. I didn't even try to fight his bull shit, I just acted like he was God's gift to running. All of this of course came pouring out of his mouth after I destroyed him by over 6 minutes.

Flagpole Willy writing "I'm actually not much of a talker, more of a lister" on the "athlete you'd most like to have a beer with" thread

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