There's this kid in my dorms who told me he ran 4:15 mile in high school and now all he does is watch tv all night. I looked him up on google and he's ran 4:17 1500m should I punch him in the face and call him a effin liar?
There's this kid in my dorms who told me he ran 4:15 mile in high school and now all he does is watch tv all night. I looked him up on google and he's ran 4:17 1500m should I punch him in the face and call him a effin liar?
No, bake him cookies and be his friend. It seems like you may need some if you are this bent out of shape about him.
There was a guy that used to work for sodexo in Gunnison, Colorado (Western State College) who claimed to be an ex-400/800/1500 runner. The guy was totally weird and claimed to have run 1.39 for 800m. I mean this guy was adamant and totally serious that he had bettered the world record on more than one occasion. It was quite the joke on the western team and for those who had the pleasure of working with such a humorous character.
He said he was able to run so fast because he had some rare injury or disorder that required him to take some copious dosage of revolutionary horse steroids. When asked why he didn't compete for the US at the olympics he looked at us with stupid look on his face and said "because they drug test of course". Best liar I have ever met. Im sure he really believed himself.
I had a guy tell me he ran a 4:15 in high school while never running a mile of training. he said he biked 100-150 miles a week and that put him in 4:15 shape. he also told me he never ran track because he was a rebellious teen. And i thought older people were supposed to be good role models....
This guy I train with has, on more than one occasion, lied about his 1500 PB to others right in front of me. I know what his best time is, and he just straight up lies, telling people it is 3-4 seconds faster than it really is. I called him on it one time, and he goes "Oh yeah, I forgot." What the f***? Who "forgets" their PB's?
Taking a few seconds off of your pr is not too bad. I will admit, I've done it before (for example 420 miler instead of 422 miler). I don't consider this as annoying as blatantly stretching the truth to an absurd point.
How about Gerry Lingrens sub 2 marathon
jim stevens often claimed to have qualified for the 88 marathon trials in atlantic city but there was a mixup with his number so he bandited it. it was a pathetic pickup line from a 2:45 guy.
Used to be a total Tool that worked in my office, about 50 and fat. One day he claimed that he went out running for the first time in years and " ran 4 miles in 21 minutes." This turd could not run 4 miles in an hour, but he insisted that he had done it in 21 minutes. He was hated by everyone in the office anyway because of his obnoxious personality. He eventually got fired, divorced, and alienated by his teenage kids. One other story... A big Indiana Univ. Basketball fan, he casually mentioned to me one day how happy he was that " I.U. had won the NCAA in 1986." When I pointed out to him that he was mistaken, they had won in 1987, and that Louisville had won in 1986 by beating Duke. He got all huffy, told me I was stupid and wrong, and challenged me to a $ 20 bet that I.U. had indeed won in 1986, not Louisville. I told him that he was wrong, and that he was an idiot to bet $ 20. But he insisted on the bet, the next day I proved Louisville's victory to him, and he paid my the $ 20. What a dork.
Sad ending is that loser did the Full Job on himself about 3 years after we canned him.
Some claims I've always been suspicious of. On was Pat Porters 4:00 mile at 9,000 feet where he "saw God". Another was Sydney Maree's daily morning 10 miler at Villanova at 5:00 pace, and further he says in the Mark Bloom book he still (in his 40's ) runs a half-marathon regularly at the that pace.
We had a kid in college, good runner, who transferred out to another school. This was the old days before the internet so you didn't get immediate results but our coach always posted times on the board when he got them a few days later. Saw the kid at a meet and he claimed he ran 3:47 indoors for 1500 which would have been a huge pr. He was a 10k runner. A week later we saw the actual results from that race and he had really run 3:51, still a very nice time but, come on, there's a big difference there.
We always had the inside joke that that was the time his dad hand timed from the stands.
On a side note he panned out very nicely, getting down to 13:36 and 28:30 but I guess a lot of us always have that little inclination to fudge just a little if they feel the need to impress certain others
When I was in HS there was a character who was about 10 yrs. older than us who had been running road races from the early days, won a bunch before the sport became popular, but then stopped competing. He claimed to regularly run 200/mpw, much of it at just above 5 min pace, and most of it at night.
Years later someone said to him, "if the Kenyans discovered your training methods the 2 hour marathon would be commonplace." With a totally straight face he replied, "I've broken 2 hours." Thing is, I bet he believed it.
fivkxpert wrote:
There's this kid in my dorms who told me he ran 4:15 mile in high school and now all he does is watch tv all night. I looked him up on google and he's ran 4:17 1500m should I punch him in the face and call him a effin liar?
It's not out of the realm of possibility that a high school kid could run a 4:15 mile and 4:17 1500 in the same year. What if he's just inconsistent?
In my Senior year of college, a kid came out for XC. we ran our easy runs at like 6:45-7 min pace and the kid couldn't keep up on an ez 8 miler. He claimed to be a 16' pole vaulter, a 10.6 100 guy and a 16 flat XC guy. This was back in the day before the internet and he always had an excuse for why he didn't show up on the various "lists" that circulated.
Later that year he claimed to some chick that his dad owned 1/2 of moble oil - it turns out that his dad owned 1/2 of a gas station. He also told a different chick that every year in the winter he would go out into the woods naked for a week to spiritually purify himself.
After I graduated, he got expelled from school for having a gun on campus. I don't know if he ever graduated, but a friend of mine saw him a couple of years ago and he claimed to be in a joint harvard-yale MBA/MD program or something.
It's one thing to shave a few seconds off of your PR and then there's telling whoppers....
Holy cow - too many of them to remember. Here are a few.
A guy in one of my engineering classes checked and saw that our school record in the long jump was 24 feet. He told me that wasn't very good for a school record because he jumped 23 feet in high school and didn't even make it to state. I knew that this guy went to a Div III high school in Wisconsin so I called his lie and said "So you went 23 feet in Sectionals and didn't even make it to state?" He said no, that he only went 22 feet in Sectionals and that got him third place. Yeah right, I looked it up and 22 feet would have had him seeded to win state in the year he was talking about and it only took like 20'6" to make it to state.
Same type of situation - I worked with a guy at Office Depot who said that he did the triple jump and 400 in high school. Those just happened to be two of the events I did a few times so I told him that I went 43'9" in the triple jump. He told me I sucked and that he had gone 45 feet. I asked him how well he did at state and of course he said he didn't make it to state because he did bad at Sectionals. Apparently he only went 43 feet in Sectionals, which of course isn't true because the last guy to get in on an at-large qualifier during the year he was talking about jumped less than 42 feet. He then asked me how fast I ran the 400 (48.2 anchor split, 49.33 open) but I knew he was just going to take two seconds off of whatever I said so I said that he had to tell me his time first. He said he ran it in 58. What a friggin' joke! He seriously thought that time was going to impress me or something.
I met this kid at a party in bc. He said his dad was an amazing college runner, and that he beats his dad. Then he tried to tell me he ran 1:51 800m one day just he and his dad racing for fun on a track. After an hour or so he said maybe it was 2:01.... still bs.
a lot of runners (that were/are not good enough to look up there times) seem to have what they ran get faster as the years go by. maybe in a few centuries my times will be better than bekeles. i know 33 minute 10k runners who have not run in 5 years and at parties they claim to have run 31 minutes, a few years later they claim to have run sub 30, a lot of you probably know people like that. the ones who get caught in a lie are the ones that claim a time that is fast enough to be looked up.
I know this one lying bastard who I would love to see get called out for his cocky bull. He said that he ran 2:45:32 at Chicago Marathon. I looked up his time and he'd only run 2:45:39. Total lying prick.
an teammate of mine claimed he ran the mile in 4:45 his 8th grade year, then never came near (north of 4:55) that time until his junior year. He later exclaimed "maybe it was a 1500...? Maybe he was full of sh*t?
He also claimed to have run 90 miles in five days when he was 16, when our coach went back and counted up his miles, he was at 50. Maybe his version of a mile is shorter then the standard english system?
He once told the team that he had run 13 miles under 70 minutes. Though when he actually raced a Half-Marathon, he ran 1hr17mins. Maybe the course was short? Or long?
non-running related: he claimed he had a yellow hummer, and the only reason he didn't drive it is because the cops took his liscence away for going six-over the speed limit. ironically, a few weeks before he said his mom had just picked up his liscence from the DMV (having not taken a test?). Long story short, he never had any liscence, didn't even have a permit, he didn't get his liscence until he was almost 21 - because his parents didn't trust him with anything worth lots of money.
the list goes on and on. He's by far the worst liar I've ever met.
Good thing no one that posts on letsrun.com lies about their times..........
I set a record for longest non-stop run
There is this one kid at a local high school who is a senior. He saw my brother at a party and he told my brother that he ran the mile in 4:21 as s junior the year before. My brother told me and I just knew this kid was so full of shit. He goes around telling people he runs a 4:21. My brother and I run track and we know he's not capable of that time, plus he's not even in the top 20 on the Wisconsin High School honor roll for the 1600(cout off is 4:24). Douche....