25m to 16m in 6 months = Total bullshit unless that first 25m was nowhere near max effort.
No chance in Hell.
Without reading that wall o text, I'm just wondering if there are race results in there. Anyone look?
This is one of the most ludicrous posts I've ever seen. Mods in r/fitness deleting left and right because even the average layperson knows how impossible this is. Can't imagine putting so much effort into LARPing to get some fantasy good boy points on Reddit.
Here's the splits from the file he claims to have PRed in the 5k:
So first of all we believe that this new runner went ahead and negative split a 5k? That first mile is his slowest. And then when he was done with his 5k time trial, he went ahead and threw in a 6:21 mile afterward ya know, for a cool-down.
Sounds fake. People go to insane lengths to get points on reddit. Funny thing is no one cares about the leaderboard anymore. I wouldn't recognize active high karma posters unless I clicked them.
basics wrote:
Without reading that wall o text, I'm just wondering if there are race results in there. Anyone look?
None. Just a screenshot of supposed PRs written out.
No a snowball's chance wrote:
This is one of the most ludicrous posts I've ever seen. Mods in r/fitness deleting left and right because even the average layperson knows how impossible this is. Can't imagine putting so much effort into LARPing to get some fantasy good boy points on Reddit.
Apparently this guy also wrote a fitness program that subreddit loves and everyone recommends so they are defending his.
basics wrote:
Here's the splits from the file he claims to have PRed in the 5k:
So first of all we believe that this new runner went ahead and negative split a 5k? That first mile is his slowest. And then when he was done with his 5k time trial, he went ahead and threw in a 6:21 mile afterward ya know, for a cool-down.
I fucking laughed out loud
shootpost wrote:
No a snowball's chance wrote:
This is one of the most ludicrous posts I've ever seen. Mods in r/fitness deleting left and right because even the average layperson knows how impossible this is. Can't imagine putting so much effort into LARPing to get some fantasy good boy points on Reddit.
Apparently this guy also wrote a fitness program that subreddit loves and everyone recommends so they are defending his.
That's exactly why it works on r/fitness , and wouldn't work on Letsrun. r/fitness are hobby joggers/fitness people, they got no clue what's fast or slow or what progression is possible in running. They believe whatever this guy says.
It might even work on r/running , which is full of people running 5k's in 20-40 min. Only on Letsrun, and r/advancedrunning , this guy would have no chance with his fictional story.
LateRunnerPhil wrote:
shootpost wrote:
Apparently this guy also wrote a fitness program that subreddit loves and everyone recommends so they are defending his.
That's exactly why it works on r/fitness , and wouldn't work on Letsrun. r/fitness are hobby joggers/fitness people, they got no clue what's fast or slow or what progression is possible in running. They believe whatever this guy says.
It might even work on r/running , which is full of people running 5k's in 20-40 min. Only on Letsrun, and r/advancedrunning , this guy would have no chance with his fictional story.
Ill be honest though, I would rather take advice from people on r/fitness or r/running than you phil
Casually breaks his 10k PR on the same run as his half marathon PR lol.
He says he ran 700 miles in 2020 including a week of up to 65 miles.
A 16:34 5k while averaging <2 miles/day is pretty impressive (by impressive I mean fake).
Larping can get you into decent aerobic shape.
In six months? No way, unless he’s an ex-pro who used to be significantly faster. Way too much ground to gain. Him running that at his size isn’t surprising or odd.
It's easy to calibrate Garmin or GPS to show a lot more distance than he is actually running. I've seen people do 1k's on the track, and they counted as 1.35k. No wonder their easy runs were always impressive at 6:30/mi pace.
Why isn't he showing Strava? If he can solo TT these times, imagine what he could do in a real race being pushed in competition. He will probably silently disappear once races start again and people ask for confirmation.
Here's what a screenshot of what he claims his MONTHLY mileage is, though. Can't even keep his stories straight:
Also, he keeps switching between screenshots from runkeeper and garmin connect
As far as I'm concerned, he definitely didn't run those times. Too much doesn't add up. So I have come to my personal conclusions.
So what do we want now? There is almost no way to "get" this guy, because he has to admit it or the mods at reddit have to start questioning their beliefs (they don't do that).
But the idea of taking down a lying, karma-farming Redditor with years of work behind his account is just so tempting.
Wat do?
I guess he means 700 miles so far in 2020 (I was thinking in the last calendar year) which is more believable, ~5 miles/day average.
