Paul Ryan's marathon

Good analysis. Ryan seems to have a little truth problem to boot. Either way, now I am really curious. Need me some proof!!!

JBAG wrote:

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

You need a reality check. I know runners who have been training for years to reach such a time and they never smoked a cigarette in their lives.

Precious Roy wrote:

He is over 6 feet tall. He does not have a light frame.

6 feet 165 lbs is featherweight. That is a light frame.

Liar?

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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![/quote]

I am interested in knowing the truth about this for pretty much this reason.

If this guy trained hard enough to run what most recreational runners consider a fast time in a marathon back when marathons weren't something everyone did, that's an interesting piece of information that says something about him. (For those of you who think a 2:50-something marathon is slow, I'm not talking to you. I'm talking to the vast majority of runners who would have to train hard to run that kind of time.)

If he's lying about this, it also says something about him.

I'd like to know whether what he said in the interview is true or not.

It would definitely affect how I think about this guy and how much credence I give to other things he says.

Nutella1 wrote:

You need a reality check. I know runners who have been training for years to reach such a time and they never smoked a cigarette in their lives.

Plus he's 51 years old. I doubt he could break four hours if given only a few months to train.

I also emailed the show/blog/whatever the hell that web site is.

Once this comes out, we must stop at nothing less than the New Yorker.

Jobby Hogger wrote:

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If he's lying about this, it also says something about him.

I'd like to know whether what he said in the interview is true or not.

It would definitely affect how I think about this guy and how much credence I give to other things he says.[/quote]

To add to you post, remember back in Clinton's days, word got out that he took mulligans and other liberties when golfing, and pundits on the right jumped on it talking about how it was a window into his psyche and a great character indicator, while the left tried to brush it off.

I wonder how this one will be viewed.

My guess is that as a politician, lying is as natural to him as breathing and this just popped out.

rupp-certified saladbar wrote:

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)?

Right if any of us stopped running today, we would remember. But Paul Ryan isn't one of us. He's likely not the kind of person that would ever be reading letsrun.com and probably never obsessed about running the way people here do.

sfdasdf wrote:

My guess is that as a politician, lying is as natural to him as breathing and this just popped out.

This ^

Paul Ryan is just another hypocritical piece of crap. In his speech the other night he was going on and on about how Americans should be able to make their own choices and decisions (without "big" government intervention). Really? They why is Team Elephant always so gung ho on telling us who we can marry and what women should do with their bodies and so on. As it relates to this marathon story, there is no doubt Ryan is lying.

Why is this so hard to believe? The guy ran in high school. I played football all four years of high school but ran a 3:00:18 marathon less than two years after graduating. Before training for the marathon, I had never ran more than five consecutive miles in my life. And I can guarantee that people forget their PRs. My brother in-law, who ran at the University of Louisville and has been running for the past 20 years of his life, couldn't recall his half marathon PR. I, as well, had been telling people what I thought was my half marathon PR, but found out when I happened to look at the results that I actually ran 20 seconds faster.

The best part about this thread is all you young libs who voted for Hope and Change only to find the only change you got was in the tip cup at Starbuck's after you couldn't turn that Sociology degree into cash.

dunder mifflin wrote:

had been telling people what I thought was my half marathon PR, but found out when I happened to look at the results that I actually ran 20 seconds faster.

You just proved the point of the doubters.

You were off by 20 seconds, not minutes.....and you remembered the race.

As I said above, I expect this subject to devolve along ideological lines.

I wish I could get a job at starbucks. Great bene's

Schadenfreude wrote:

The best part about this thread is all you young libs who voted for Hope and Change only to find the only change you got was in the tip cup at Starbuck's after you couldn't turn that Sociology degree into cash.

So now that we "young libs" have figured out Obama ain't the guy, what can we expect from Team Elephant? How fast can we expect Romney & Co. to turn things around? A year? Maybe two? Seriously, I'm actually a moderate who is willing to vote for anyone who can do a better job than the current administration, but I haven't heard anything from the Republicans (or off-shoot Tea-baggers) that leads me to believe they can do any better or worse.

Personally, I think we all need to put our heads between our knees and kiss our arses goodbye. None of these politicians on either side of the fence have a clue.

Schadenfreude wrote:

The best part about this thread is all you young libs who voted for Hope and Change only to find the only change you got was in the tip cup at Starbuck's after you couldn't turn that Sociology degree into cash.

Is this a troll post, or are you really this obtuse?

Well, though I believe that Romney and Ryan will do much better than Obama, I'll put it to you this way: How could they do any worse???

I agree with the poster who made note of the fact that a lot of races never make it to Athlinks or any other running results websites. I have run probably 10 or 15 races in the last 3 years that do not show up on the site, including my half marathon PR.

And to be honest, I don't care if he ran a marathon or not. That is not his job. He couldn't win on this website no matter what he said. If would have gotten the full LR hate if he said he never ran, or ran just 5k's, or was the most hated "hobby jogger", or if he ran a slow marathon, or ran a fast marathon. No one wins on this site for long. Rupp wins a medal for the US at a distance that American's haven't medaled at in 48 years and is hated for not getting a better medal and then the next several days is hated for running a "slow" 5000, in a time that was probably better than almost 99% of the people that post here. MEB could have won the Olympic marathon and people here would have hated on him for not smiling enough or running a cautious race or not hitting his splits.