Hey, so DID these 3 random guys go sub 4 in the mile? Can this be confirmed somehow?

By far my favorite section of the Runner's World forums is the "Elite Performance" subsection. Where topics such as "Finally Broke 20" and "Freshman Breaking 10" are brought up.

DRS wrote:

Of course, I skimmed quickly, so maybe I just missed it.

His signature says Mile: 3:58.12 (i)

Harry Kooter wrote:

I think it's kind of strange that no one on that thread even brings up the idea that the guy might be a troll. I mean whose first thought after breaking 4 in the mile for the first time is "hey, I should go tell people who I don't even know all about this on a random message board for high schoolers."

There must have been some technical glitch with this thread because this AM there were posts mentioning no St Rosalia College appears when Googlesearched and the wonder of a southern Mexico town/school having an indoor track with Auto Timing set up for random visitors to use.

hey lolol, it's your favorite RW forumite. btw, for those of you bashing yav for posting on RW, lolol does too. and we trust yavapai because he's been a member of the RW community for years, if he told me he went 3:52, i might even beleive it.

The woman who calls herself "StCrispinsDay" on that thread still has me laughing. check out her pick.

from RW:

"Those quotes from letsrun are obviously a joke.. it's very easy to post with any name on letsrun so any suspicious person could do it."

"yea, even i could have gone on there and said i was rob connolly. even the letsrun people ignored him."

haha, do they not see the irony?

RWIrony wrote:

from RW:

"Those quotes from letsrun are obviously a joke.. it's very easy to post with any name on letsrun so any suspicious person could do it."

"yea, even i could have gone on there and said i was rob connolly. even the letsrun people ignored him."

haha, do they not see the irony?

hahaha, apparently not.

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DRS wrote:

OK, just gotta chime in quickly. I scanned the RW thread and nowhere in his writings did I see the OP ever state that this sub-4 attempt (success?) came in a mile run. It is heavily implied, but nowhere is it explicitly stated. Even splitting 59-high could mean for every 375 meters of a 1500 ... or every 200 of an 800. I just noticed this because I was thinking, hey, I could go sub-4 right now for four laps of a 200M indoor track. Then the guy never says "mile" so ...

Of course, I skimmed quickly, so maybe I just missed it.

I did re-read it with that exact thought in mind before I posted my comment. The flexible use of the English language versus use of language to direct you to a false conclusion has been a topic on this board before, one is found here: