my freshman year in college this girl trainer told me that she would run the first leg and the last leg on her highschool's 4x400. she also told me she split a 2:09 on the 4x800 and ran a 4:40 mile.
i asked her why she doesn't run track here in college. she said because athletic training was more challenging!!!!!
my friend and i still laugh our asses off about her times.
I remember this guy...looked like he couldnt run a 6 minute mile...wonder what he's up to now. Bald slow idiot.
denali wrote:
I knew a guy who owned an Athletic Attic running store in New Jersey back in the 70's.
He told everyone that he had qualified for the Israeli Olympic Team in the Marathon in 1976. I went to the Olympics in Montreal that year and I go watch the Marathon out on the course in three different locations, and I don't see him, or do I see his name listed on the start list for all the competitors.
Months later I see him and confront him about it, he tells me he dropped out at 5k mark with a hamstring injury????
If that wasn't enough of a lie, I see him three years later in Ottawa for the National Capital Marathon. It was a out and back affair along the Rideau Canal on different sides of the Canal. I see him on the starting line and he informs everyone he is shooting for a 2:20. Well I pass him at the 15k mark and think nothing of it until I see him up ahead of me at the 35k mark, and he never passed me????
I knew he had cut across the Canal on one of the bridges. After the race he is walking around bragging to everyone that he had run 2:29, I just wanted to vomit on the guy he disgusted me so much.
An acquaintance once told me he ran a 4:20 mile in middle school. No matter what I told him, or how much I laughed, he stuck by his story. Idiot.
Hadji wrote:
Any PR claimed by James Moreland (20 miles & under)
Truer words have never been spoken.
A lot of guys I went to middle school with would run low 5's or under in the gym mile because it was a loop around the perimeter of the school which probably measured out to about 1250 meters.
The WORST running time lie is that the "world's fittest man" can only run a marathon in 3:44.
Hey- I'm running Meriter tonight and, whoever you are, for your support I owe undying gratitude. I might be at the laurel afterwards. If you show up, I'll buy you a beer.
As for the source of misguided whatever, there're several. One comes from the rotten-to-the-core UWO. You must have heard how the former UWO coach was fired, and how the assistants backed him up? I sure didn't support him. Those guys- Zupanc and Ackerman and Vercauteren- are resume-padders. They refuse to list my 1500m record. Go ahead and check the UWO Track Records. You won't see an outdoor 1500. That's how much Zupanc hates me. It's so sad- UWO is the only WSUC school- and the only NCAA school I've noticed- that doesn't list an outdoor 1500m record. Pathetic. Talk about running time lies- I'd say UWO not listing a 1500m record is a pretty big lie-by-omission.
I'd also say that UWO failing to break a 24 year old, fairly slow, 1500m record is, well, pathetic. 3:47.88 must be one of the slowest NCAA Division III records in the country. It's also got to be one of the oldest 1500m records in the country if you look at programs with active and competetive track teams.
The other problem that I know of comes from my previously-less-than-favorable image of the former UW CC coach. We were on speaking terms towards the end of his tenure here, but for a while in the late 80s, there were two groups of runners here. One group ran with the CC coach, and the other group did not. The UW runners who left weren't around for the reconciliation, and they still carry the baggage of hatred. I think it's sad- some of them are actually pretty decent human beings, and some of them were good runners. I think Martin has proven himself to be a good man and a fine coach- and I think it's ok to get over some things.
Finally, I get a total kick out of winning and I'm not afraid to dominate when I can. There are some younger guys who can't handle defeat- especially when it comes at the hands of an old guy like me! So there you have it- my side of the story. At least there you have some of it. More available at the laurel later. Over beer.
Not to stir anything up unnecessarily, but
http://www.titans.uwosh.edu/MOutdoorTrack/Records.html
1,500 Meter Run/Mile Run* Matt Groose 4:03.77 April 26, 2003
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* - Fastest time of two events is posted [whatever the f*** that means]
It means a lot of things. First, Matt told me a few years ago- the year he Coleman gave him the record, that he hadn't actually broken the 1500m record, but that Coleman and Zupanc had done some kind of conversion- totally unethical on the part of Zup and Coleman. Matt was pretty big to stand up and say it. I questioned Coleman and Zup and they made up all kinds of bull. Later, I questioned Ackerman, who said he does this all the time. Here's a copy of the email he sent me.
"Max, John and I have finally talked. Before I let you know the out come ,I want
to tell you that what was done with the 1500m record is the same thing that I
did at Elmhurst College 20 plus years ago. It was not something that was made up
to get Max Harn. We agree that you have the 1500m record and will say so if ask.
On our records we will only show the fastest time between the metric and the
imperial distance using the accepted formula to determine the fastest time.So
Matt Groose will be on the record board as running the mile. Al Ackerman" -Friday, Dec 2, 2005
So, if you ask me, Ackerman has been a cheater for 20+ years.
bear pack rnnr wrote:
bump
Hey Bear Pack, whatever happened with your and your lying coach?
Vipam's 1:50 800.
in track in eigth grade, I told someone I had run a 54 second 400 right before my anchor leg of the 4*400(my p.r. at that point was 67 seconds), he dusted me. I did p.r. though
. wrote:
The guy in this link claims that he has a 100m pr of 10 secs, but his 400m pr is 30 secs. The funny thing is people argue that he's telling the truth because they ran it too...... on a treadmill!
I couldn't even finish the second page without getting annoyed.
Page 2 from 'Chamander'
"Alright lets end this.
Jin weighs way less than me. If I can do 1/4 mile in 30 seconds on a treadmill, I dont doubt that he can.
Look at all the sprinters, they are all very light and have endurance over the roof. The lighter the weight, the faster you can run but after you go below a certain weight, you probably cannot keep going because of fatigueness."
Well he did collapse 100 yards before the finish line. He was "well under" 2 hour pace before hand. To bad to never ran another. Doesn't sound like 1:55 would have been out of reach. Especially since he wasn't really training for a marathon before the sub-2 hour attempt.
What a legend in his own mind...er I mean time.
when I was in high school, sacking groceries at Safeway between X-C and track; an older guy in the dairy dept. told me he was once a distance runner at Wyandotte High. (KC). He said his best mile was 4:18. I was impressed., but pressed the matter further to see if he could back it up. I asked him what he came by the 1/2 mile in, in that race. When he said 1:43, I said ....BUSTED!
Tome Cruise said he ran a sub4 mile during the filming on MIII.
not really a lie put kinda funny. some of my suite mates in college were watching tv in their room and i heard the commercial for the movie about roger bannister come on. and one of them says to his room mate, "4 minute mile dude, that record will probably never be broken". i just sat there and shook my head...
During HS and college I caddied at a golf course in my hometown during the summers. One day I was out on the course. I was going into my junior year of college, there was another caddy who was maybe 2 or 3 years younger than me, 2 caddies who were about 14 or 15, and the four golfers. The other older caddy and I convince the younger kids that I am an All American in track. So we decide to mess around with the golfers. So the other kid keeps saying things like "You might be an All American, but I'm a better caddy than you" or "I'm sorry but we can't all be All Americans", saying it in a way like hes being friendly and teasing me. So the guy whose back I'm carrying bites and asks what the kid is talking about. I'm really modest about it, saying I didn't even make the mile finals at NCAA indoors but because there were so many foreigners I was one of the top 8 Americans, I've only run 4:03 but hopefully I'll be as fast as some of the good runners I have to face, etc. By the end of the round the group of golfers is wishing me good luck when it comes to break 4:00 and qualifying for the Olympic Trials like I want to. It was a dumb stunt, they would have been pissed if they found out I was lying, but it sure kept me and my friend entertained that day.
they did
I invented the internet ..... while racing against GW.