Paul Ryan's marathon

i ran a half last year and I'm not sure of my time. I limped the last two miles on my ankle and only know the approximate time.

I would bet that he ran 259s to 300s to 310.

I can't imagine that the smile and haircut are very aerodynamic.

agip wrote:

Mitt Romney ran xc in high school - apparently embarrassingly bad tho

It's possible he ran sub-3:00 but impossible that he ran the entire course. He hates regulation and intentionally cut corners at every opportunity. These conservatives have short memories, don't they. Ryan can't remember his marathon time. Romney just can't recall bullying a gay kid in high school and cutting his hair. And they confuse things that happened while Bush was still president with things that happened once Obama was in office.

Not necessarily a fan of this guy at all, but I'm thinking it's true. Only because obviously the guy is very motivated and competitive to get to where he is, he's a fitness nut apparently, and was probably lighter years ago. A flat course, a guy running on pure hate who is super competitive, 2:59 is not outrageously fast.

Or maybe he's a giant f-ing liar, in which case he should be dropped from the ticket immediately and Romney should be disqualified.

I wonder what Biden could run if he trained for 3 months? 5:30?

Obama? Smoker, but fit...quit smoking, train for 2-3 months, I got him at 3:15.

Hill Stomper wrote:

With all of the (human) resources here at LR this will be sniffed out.

Much of the power that these resources hold relies on the internet. If he ran his time when nothing was online (ie, 15+years ago, and he most likely ran it 20+years ago), then there is a good chance that this one will go unsolved.

It can be proved that he did run a marathon, but not that he hasn't. So really no one knows, and we probably never will unless someone asks him another question about it and we get a more precise answer.

Bill Walker wrote:

In an Aug. 22 interview by Hugh Hewitt, Representative Ryan said he had run a marathon in "two hour and fifty something." Does anyone know the marathon and the year?

But I did hear he ran track in high school? At least that is what I heard on tv? Anyone have confirmation on this? Sorry, I am just a newbie on this kind of stuff.

Drug Cheat!!!!!!

Woo hoo, first one to say it on this thread!!!!

Roy I think your right on here. BS is definately worth calling on this one!!

My guess is that he ran the Marine Corps marathon when he was a staffer in DC. Wikipedia says he began in 1992. The MCM site only has results back to 2000.

Any LR posters have any idea how to get access to those old results from 1992-2000?

I recall reading somewhere on this site that Wejo ran/run the Marine Corps back in the day? Maybe he knows?

I found this in the Western Wyoming Marathon results--

Paul Ryan 4th place 2:50 "something"

Maybe the "something" was 30 minutes.

ssssample wrote:

come on letsrun, i know we can find out he's lying!

THIS IS WHAT WE'VE BEEN TRAINING FOR

YES! This would be cool for the boards, even more so than the New Yorker pick-up of KL's cheating.

JBAG wrote:

Not necessarily a fan of this guy at all, but I'm thinking it's true. Only because obviously the guy is very motivated and competitive to get to where he is, he's a fitness nut apparently, and was probably lighter years ago. A flat course, a guy running on pure hate who is super competitive, 2:59 is not outrageously fast.

It's not that the time is unbelievable, it's the idea that a super motivated competitive fitness nut wouldn't retain at least to the minute his marathon PR.

BS.

Lying about PRs is the kind of thing that even non-runners get as really low. Out this liar!

Bill Walker wrote:

In an Aug. 22 interview by Hugh Hewitt, Representative Ryan said he had run a marathon in "two hour and fifty something." Does anyone know the marathon and the year?

Has he gone sub-3 more than once?

IF he has done it multiple times, MAYBE he can't recall if the best was 2:57 or 2:58 or whatever, but even that is unlikely. But the interview doesn't sound like that was the case.

If he has only gone sub-3 once, which I think is implied, NO WAY IN HELL DOES HE NOT REMEMBER THE RACE AND TIME.

Come on. If you stopped running today, would you honestly forget your first and only time under 15 (or whatever the last barrier you hit was)?

I'm always skeptical when a celebrity claims a running accomplishment without providing any details. After having been surprised a couple of times, though, I've learned to hold off n judgement. At least for a couple of days while the facts sort themselves out.

I sent HH an email asking him to substantiate the claim. Hope you did, too.

Have to say that it is not true that nobody runs marathons in college. I ran three in college, usually right after XC season ended, though it was 30 years ago when running one was pretty much reserved to males doing 60 miles per week or more. Oddly enough, breaking 3:00 then at any age was just not a big deal. Running 2:50 was a semi-big deal because that qualified you for Boston.

I do find it hard to believe that Ryan cannot recall his specific best marathon time. I also would think his claim can be substantiated or refuted. After some of the whoppers he told Wednesday night, making up a sub-3:00 marathon time would be no big deal. That said, it is definitely possible he ran a sub-3:00 marathon.

For the record, I have run one marathon in my life, my freshman year of college, and I cannot remember my time. but then again I hit the wall and walk-jogged the last 6 miles, and finished in 3:30something, so it's not that memorable

Citizen Kane wrote:

Have to say that it is not true that nobody runs marathons in college. I ran three in college, usually right after XC season ended, though it was 30 years ago when running one was pretty much reserved to males doing 60 miles per week or more. Oddly enough, breaking 3:00 then at any age was just not a big deal. Running 2:50 was a semi-big deal because that qualified you for Boston.

I do find it hard to believe that Ryan cannot recall his specific best marathon time. I also would think his claim can be substantiated or refuted. After some of the whoppers he told Wednesday night, making up a sub-3:00 marathon time would be no big deal. That said, it is definitely possible he ran a sub-3:00 marathon.

I'm still trying to figure out how he was criticizing the President for not pushing the debt commission report when he was on the commission and voted against the report.

In any event, between the Brojos investigative reporting and Michelle Malkin's interest in this subject, I think we can find the answers about his marathon times.

If it turns out he ran 3:30 but hangs out on the side with Mark Block it might be a whale of a story.