Posers on Magnolia Road

I'm a wannabe that runs on Magnolia Road.

I'm Kris Lunn. Ran at CU. You can look up my times, my Dad's times, my brother Jason's times, my sister's times, my brother-in-law's times. Catch-a-clue. I do happen to know a bit about running.

On a side note, I think you should repeat this word: "Relax". Repeat it until you hear it in your sleep. It should be your new mantra.

eye-ran wrote:

I suspect that K Lunn, trackrat, oletimer may be all the same

poster.....and who know maybe even one keg too.

All I'm saying is have some dignity and let your published times speak for you.....why gloat ???

Nope, I'm not the same as these other guys, whom I believe are legit.

I'm a poser as well as a hoser (barely sub 32 10k if you believe in altitude conversions, otherwise low 32 at sea level--certainly nothing worth gloating about), and I haven't met these guys. Never run on Magnolia Road, although I have been up and down Boulder Canyon countless times.

Boy, alot of ego banter here. EVERYBODY needs to chill.

We're all different folks, brah, and you can probably look up and track everyone's ISP. But I don't get it. In your first post on this thread, YOU called me out by saying "1:51...PROVE IT!" Right? RIGHT?? So what am I supposed to do with that? (And CO-runner asked me my splits or something like that so I told him).

So in the process of RESPONDING to a couple of QUESTIONS (and to an extent "proving" it), which seems like it irked you more, plus describing the workout to someone else who chimed in and ASKED for specifics, you now call me out for GLOATING about a flippin' workout. Sheesh! It's not as though I was talking about running a workout with no goading from you.

And you then asked for my specific racing PRs. So I offered for you to e-mail me so you can verify my PRs. Who really cares?? But you wouldn't do that either. So the ball was in your court...again. The PRs and race results you seek are a keyboard's punch away.

Take some responsibility here, pal. This would not have come up if you hadn't made such a fuss in the first place. Also, you've changed tacks on this issue so many times it makes myself and others question your agenda. I wish you well in your running or whatever, but you've distorted some things here. Whether it was intentional or not is irrelevant at this point.

One Keg doesn't appear to be gloating to me. I thought the story was interesting for many of us who have read about mags and never been there. Too many losers on the board who want to bash everyone from a 3 hr marathoner to a 3:53 miler.

First, I'm not your "brah or pal". Also, I feel I have been somewhat consistant with my point -"why gloat with TRAINING TIMES".

Basically, from what I have read is that you are an older runner who needs to show(not sure who you want to impress)that you once ran some quick times. When you say 1:51 in a workout, yes I say prove it.....because you can't.THIS IS THE POINT It's not an official time it's history, it was a workout so why even mention it. Anything else is simply gloating(MY view).

The info here about Magnolia was good. The orginal post was about arrogance on Magnolia. My so called attacks on you have been well defended by your Colorado chums. Maybe some of the same folks who are too snooty to say hello to other runners in the foothills of the Rockies.

Here, you want to let your ability be known.

Below list some web sites with OFFICIAL/PUBLISHED race times.

Eye-ran, most of us who are still running after hitting 40 have very little ego invested in how good or mediocre (like me) our times are or were. We are interested to hear about our fellow runners training and racing, and generally are grateful that we and our compatriots can still get out and run at whatever level we are at. Perhaps if you were a little more secure about who you are and at peace with where you fall in the running hierarchy, then you could have taken one Keg's comments without being defensive and could have taken the offer to e-mail him to communicate directly if it was important to you. I have never been to CO. I have never read RWTB, and I don't know who one-keg is, but I am always interested to hear from other runners about their training and racing.

Jumping on the pile?

A number of amusing things here. I do put some credence in training times, in that people tend to run with other people, who run with others, so the rumor mill up here is full of unverifiable performances. The wild card is that any number of feats that happen are done by folks who never race. As an example, I got a laugh out of the newspapers results of the Vail Mountain race recently, seeing that the winning time was the equal of what 2 skier friends of mine did on a weekly basis. And these were hard core skiers who I don?t believe ever ran road races - they just ran in the summer as training. Many other things go around the rumor mill, most of which can be vouched for by friends-of-friends, coming out of mountain runners, burro racers, speed hikers, snowshoers, and on and on.

Believe the stories or not. Most of these folks that do those things do them for personal satisfaction anyway, not to get results published.

As for verifiable results, you seem to lean heavily on those times posted on the internet. For those of us of advanced age, there?d be no way to find results anyway. Try finding my results from obscure HS or college meets decades ago. Hell, even if my HS had records posted in the gym, I?d bet they don?t have the ones in yards.

I see One Keg?s listing of his time on this well known run as being an interesting tidbit which I?ll stick in my mental rumor mill file. No proof, but no reason to doubt it.

Have another hit. Of fresh air.

WTF? This is some serious passive-aggressive BS taking hold here. And people are snooty to you? This is a frickin' shocking development. I'm sticking to my guns at this point and won't comment to you on my race times till your anonymous persona e-mails me requesting my past race results. I don't think you have the guts to ID yourself to me. If I listed my race times and locales, you'd say I was gloating about those too. So you can think I'm fast or slow, it makes no difference to me at this point. Get on with your life and find some battles worth fighting.

Maybe that crap works on the east coast, but when someone says "hi" and "mornin' " you'd better f***ing say something back or get ready to have an ass whoopin'

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Thanks for the blast to the pas eye-ran! I posted on this thread as an unregistered regular. Those were dark days, was getting over a couple years of continuous injury. Have been and race all over since those days. You were on quite a roll there with those posts!

past (not pas)

The arrogance of Boulder-area runners is beyond compare, I'll give you that.