Anyone else have a friend who ran a 2:40 full and they think they are gods gift to running?

Was it this guy?

I have friends who are 2:40 ish who don't brag about it but spend way too much time running as they mail in their careers and watch their marriages fall apart. Of course, I probably have it backwards. They may run a lot to get away from their careers and spouses.

texas boii wrote:

This guy always claims he’s “not training” and running marathons on low mileage but probably runs more than a home I know. He thinks 2:40 is elite apparently, it’s old and tiring being around him smh.

I have a friend who also doesn't train and he ran a 2:39. I have better friends than you have. smh.

texas boii wrote:

This guy always claims he’s “not training” and running marathons on low mileage but probably runs more than a home I know. He thinks 2:40 is elite apparently, it’s old and tiring being around him smh.

The fastest male I know, personally, has run a 2:32, and the fastest female a 2:39, and I know a lot of runners. I think 2:40 is a pretty darn good time, and it's definitely worth bragging about the week after the race. But then its time to shut up and get back to the rest of life.

I know a guy who took thyroid hormone, synthroid or whatever they call it, at this level and ended up running 218 within 2 years. Anything is possible. I used to believe in running until everyone started overtraining so they could get a prescription for synthroid.

Like I legit know a guy who did this, and at that point he was so far gone that he didnt even realize what he was doing.

What was even worse is that he didnt think it was wrong.

I ran just short of that time when I was 19, never said a word to anyone unless they asked "How did the Freep go for ya?". I'm not special, but I guess I'm different.

I posted on the first page and never even thought of sharing that...so I must really be special.

In all seriousness, I didn't think anything of it and only trained by running miles and miles and more miles, no speed work. Times have changed.

I have never been on this web site or chat room until a friend of mine sent it to me and said you all were talking trash about Gods gift. I am gods gift, gods gift to running, women, and local abortion clinics (keeping them in business ;)).

I ran 2:40:41 in 2018 of minimal training but a ton of coitus and connilingus. I was born with a Gods Gift Birthmark on my body that looks like a Tattoo to some but the real ones know it was brandished at birth. I can’t help being this good, I wish I was good at a fun sport like Golf or Basketball but I was cursed with this gift to be better than all you bums.

I respect all of you for trying to be as good as I am naturally because I could never imagine grinding everyday and seeing a true man like me show up to the starting line and the race is over before the gun even goes off. Hats off to you guys.

Just know, it’s not easy being this great. It’s a burden and a cross I have to bare, but it’s what I was put in this earth to do. Run fast and punish puss.

Pease and blessings you bums.

-Gods gift

Everything is relative. At my best I ran a hilly 10 mile race in 53:55. 5:23 pace good compares to someone running 5:50 pace for 10 miles but just average compared to someone running 5:00 pace for 10 miles

Loser

*stipe wrote:

rightttttttt wrote:

He was "fat" and it '"didn't take him long" to debut at 2:40.

Ha, BS!

This is fake, unless you can give us his name and the date of this race.

If you can, it will probably turn out that he trained for three or four years and went from 180 to 160 pounds.

This would be a former high school sub 10:00 2 miler or decent 25:xx XC college guy.

Those guys could put on some weight and put in a solid training block and run 2:40.

Hard for us guys who had to put in some serious work for 2:40.

I gave you his race and his time. You sleuth it out.

high school xc coach wrote:

it's interesting. ususally it is the guys in the 3:10-3:30 kind of range, trying to knock on the door of 3:00 who talk like they are great. the guys who run 2:40 are usually very aware of far away from being elite they really are.

So much this. I like to say (with regard to nordic skiing, my main sport these days) that I'm "just good enough to know how good I'm not."

It's a little apples to oranges, obviously, but on a good day, I'm 25% back from a national champion skier. Let's call that, what, very roughly analogous to a 2:10 * 1.25 = 2:42:30 marathoner. Which absolutely accords with your observation.

I know a guy wrote:

*stipe wrote:

This would be a former high school sub 10:00 2 miler or decent 25:xx XC college guy.

Those guys could put on some weight and put in a solid training block and run 2:40.

Hard for us guys who had to put in some serious work for 2:40.

I gave you his race and his time. You sleuth it out.

What year?

I ran 2:40 in NYC and trained like crazy for it and don't feel anywhere close to elite... most men that run 2:40 are probably 17 / 34-35 guys and almost never finish near the front of a big race, so shouldn't feel too entitled

Times have really changed when 240 is something to brag about by anyone who puts in the miles and is under 35. I ran on a fair high school cc team (Team did not make the state open) and our 7th guy did not break 1040 for 2 miles. He ran 237 a couple of years later. Two of us broke 230 and I ran a 233 on 50 mph at 19.

I ran a sub 2:40 and never bragged about it. In my case it might be because I did it for the first 22 miles and carried a fridge on my back for the last four and finished with a 2:52.

Never got back there after that. ..

I know a woman who years ago ran 4:30 for the Pittsburgh Marathon - one of the world's most difficult courses according to her. She thought it was an extraordinary performance. I put it in perspective by explaining that the woman's world record was close to 2:15, about half of her time.

I personally ran close to 4 hours in my debut in 2008 at 19 and now I’m in sub 2:30 shape now and aiming to make the 2024 trials. I believe I’ll cap at 2:16. I really actually hate talking about running and it’s awkward to me when others bring up how “fast” because I don’t think I am and I am just trying to push myself to the best of my ability. People chit on people because they have nothing better to do, so what if some one thinks there amazing because they ran a certain time maybe for them that means the world to them and they did something they never thought they could. I to this day will never ever understand why some judge others. If some one thinks there amazing because they broke 30 in the 5k more power to them. If some one runs 14:30 and thinks that not good enough more power to them. Running is a individual sport . So shut up the haters

[quote]texas boii wrote:

This guy always claims he’s “not training” and running marathons on low mileage but probably runs more than a home I know. He thinks 2:40 is elite apparently, it’s old and tiring being around him smh.

info wrote:

John Wesley Harding wrote:

What an odd thing to say.

I agree, quite odd. I can understand saying “Nice to meet you,” but why would he say “Nice to meet you and walked away and started talking to someone else.” I wonder what the 2:40 guy said in response.

I bet whole point was to rattle 2:40 guy and leave him speechless. Poor guy is probably still trying to figure out what that was all about.

I've never met anyone really that bragged about their running accomplishments. It's much rarer than other bragging in other sports, at least in my experience.