the most outrageous PR lie

I think you have your professional football players mixed up, you were on the right track, but surprisingly Russ Francis at one time held the High School javalin mark. Russ Francis played tight end for the 49'ers.

When I was in middle school I ran about a 5:53 mile w/o training. It was the fastest in my gym class. But after class this kid claimed that he hadn't tried. He said he had run a 4:18 mile. The funny thing is he ran a 5k in 24:00!

A coach from China once told me that at a meet over there in 1997 that a bunch of women broke the WR at the 3000, some in heats and final. He also went on and on about a woman who nearly set the 5000m record in the second half of a 10,000m. He was also babbling about the 1500m record.

Completely unbelievable.

I told a big lie in the mid 80s when I was about 21 and went really far to prove i was right.

I mentioned to someone at a boys and girls club of america that I had been a high school all american in cross country as a high school senior. I don't know why that came out of my mouth. He said something to the effect that everyone claims that and that he didn't believe it was true. I went to my college and used some desktop publishing software to produce a fake sports article which mentioned me as an all american. I wrote the story so that it focused on the winner, and then I simply listed the times of the other all americans and put my name and a fake time in there. I photo copied it so it looked like I was copying a newspaper article, and I mailed it to him. The next time he saw me, he apologized and then introduced me to everyone as a former high school all american. I felt like a dick.

your an idiot

thanks. just something i did one time. haven't lied about anything significant since.

Don't know if this would qualify as a lie, but I thought it was kind of funny:

I had a teammate in college who when asked of his PR in the 3K would commonly say, "My PR in the 3K? Between 8:00 and 10:30."

People would be thrown off by his answer and have no idea what to expect.

(BTW his PR was 8:49 for 3000 meters)

This kid Eric, a freshman on my college xc team claims to have run 16:38 for 5k xc in high school. he also claims that a girl from his high school ran 16:58 for 5k xc in high school. The problem is that no one has ever heard of this girl(who should be a top hs runner in the nation) and he has run 33:20 and 30:51 for his first two 5 mile races this fall. All this tells me is that he was barely faster than the best girl from his high school on a 2.8 mile course...cus there is no way this kid ran 5:19 pace in hs and is now running 6:10-6:40 pace in college. What a liar!!

Merry Men!!!!!!!!!!

Maybe not bs, I ran 16:30 senior year on a legit course in HS (16:41 on the track spring of my junior year) and had trouble breaking 29 freshman year in college. Got down to 25:20 junior year of college though. It's all about the summer training.

Merry Men wrote:

This kid Eric, a freshman on my college xc team claims to have run 16:38 for 5k xc in high school. he also claims that a girl from his high school ran 16:58 for 5k xc in high school. The problem is that no one has ever heard of this girl(who should be a top hs runner in the nation) and he has run 33:20 and 30:51 for his first two 5 mile races this fall. All this tells me is that he was barely faster than the best girl from his high school on a 2.8 mile course...cus there is no way this kid ran 5:19 pace in hs and is now running 6:10-6:40 pace in college. What a liar!!

Merry Men!!!!!!!!!!

Actually Merry Men, he may not be lying. In high school, my PR for 5K was 16:42 and my first few college races, I failed to break 31:00 for 5 miles. Some people may need to take longer adjustment periods to the increased racing distance. I was more of an 800/1500 guy, so it doesn't suprise me at all that your teammate is running what he is. I wouldn't go calling him a liar based off of two races. That's a quick way to make enemies and create un-needed turmoil on your team.

Wow that is quite a drop off. I wasn't the most dedicated college runner and my very first college 8K was 27:11 and it only got faster from there. Our 800 guys were even running in the 27s and 28s by season's end. Not making fun of you, just saying it sounds unusual, because not being able to break 31 for 8K, man that's some serious slowness.

Stepay wrote:

Wow that is quite a drop off. I wasn't the most dedicated college runner and my very first college 8K was 27:11 and it only got faster from there. Our 800 guys were even running in the 27s and 28s by season's end. Not making fun of you, just saying it sounds unusual, because not being able to break 31 for 8K, man that's some serious slowness.

I'm glad to say my PR was nearly 3 minutes fast than that (28:18) by the time I finished my collegiate career, but I'm sure that's pretty slow to you.

I'd watch your wiseass remarks. Calling someone slow is not what one runner should say to another. There are no such things as slow runners...just different ability levels. But I'm sure you'll come back with some remark like, "Well, if Ritz called me slow, I wouldn't be offended, I'd agree with him." Well, you're no Ritz.

Not making fun of you, just saying making a remark about someone being slow, man, that's some serious shitheadedness.

Oh brother, don't even get me started on this topic,

When I was in college we had this kid who the coach was recruiting who said he'd run 1:51 for 800m! He was a JC transfer, so it didn't seem odd that he wasn't a big name. He said that he'd run it at an all comers meet at Stanford in the post season or something wack like that. So we were all excited for this fast guy who was coming, but low and behold when he got to school he turned out to be nothing special. I kept thinking to myself, "this guy ran 1:51?". Then once he's here the other lies start to pile high, i.e. 1:11 for a half marathon, 15:30 for a XC 5k, etc. and our eyebrows raised a little higher. He had the "results" on his wall from his 1:51 effort, however they looked curiously like something that had been done on Microsoft Works. Eventually we realized how full of shit this guy was, but we still felt the need to needle him until he broke, admitting at first that he'd run it during a MILE RELAY (!) in which they only had two people, and he ran two legs. Then finally he admitted that the legs weren't consecutive. He even had the gall to dis our coach when he didn't run any faster than 1:57 that track season.

Last year we had a girl on the team who was just plain old wacky! One sunday the team heads out for a long run that follows a flume ditch. The trail often crosses the flume and it requires running over narrow metal grates for extended stretches. So the guys reach the end of the trail and turn around and start heading back. And who should they run into 7 miles from the start of the run, but XXXXXX. This girl didn't run all summer (for what reason I don't know), and now she's 7 miles out. Now I wasn't out there to see her, cuz I'm a pussy and I hate running over those stupid grates, but when I got back from my run on another trail the coach told me of what he had seen. Being done with our run, we got in our cars and went home, but coach had to stay and wait. After an hour or so of waiting, coach heads back out on the trail for run #2 of the day to see what the f*** has happened to psycho athlete. After a couple miles of running, coach rounds the corner to see athlete, walking, with her shorts rolled up, catching some rays. As soon as she sees coach she starts running. When he asks her what happened she breaks out the story now known only as "the cliffhanger". See, it turns out that she was running along one of the grates over the flume ditch in one of the exposed sections (where there is only the grate, the flume, and then a big ass drop), and she lost her balance(?) and fell off the grates, CATCHING HERSELF WITH ONE ARM! She then pulled herself back up onto the flume and continued on her merry way. Of course there were no scratches, scrapes, etc. to corroborate this whopper, and she never mentioned the fact that she was walking when the coach ran into her. There were many other great stories from this athlete, but that's enough for now.

what a f***stick

ishapiro wrote:

sevatonic wrote:

Haile Gebreselassie did say once after his 26:22,"I think I could go faster than last night, they didn't give me much space. I'm thinking of doing 25 min"

That was...outrageous.

Hey, in 95 Geb ran 26:43, in 97 he ran 26:31, and in 98 he ran 26:22. Didn't seem outrageous that he could dip under 26 in a few years if he kept progressing like that.

But then he picked up that calf injury...

Still, don't mess with Haile.

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my high school coach grew up in Minnesota. He claimed to have won lots of races when he was a younger guy. He’s probably 80 or a bit more now. Still alive. His name is Lyle Myers. I couldn’t find any results of his. This isn’t a PR per se, but he told me he was once featured in Sports Illustrated as “the great white hope” of distance running. LOL