"Pulling a Shorter": Fact or Fiction

So, what is it supposed to be?

Is it running in an airport between flights?

I'm not sure what the OP is referring to. Perhaps Shorter's "pit stop" in a ditch at the side of the road during the 1971 Pan Am Games marathon, which he ended up winning.

I was thinking of the time Shorter and Jack Bacheler reportedly ran over the top of a car stopped at an intersection that had been harassing them. There was a scene in "Without Limits" where they showed Pre doing this, but as I recall, it was Shorter and Bacheler that actually did this down in Florida.

well it's not exactly unknown is it, Jones,Radcliffe,Pippig

and no doubt numerous others have had impromptu pit stops that haven't prevented them running fast times and winning races,

Maybe it refers to winning a major marathon by taking the lead at the 10 mile mark.

I think it refers to being an ass to runners who were not at his level.

I heard it had something to do with whacking off before a race...

Maybe it has something to do with Francie Larrieu before a race.

I think he means bandit running a race because you're embarrassed of running slow

I don't think that Shorter was an ass to inferior runners. My father ran with him for awhile in a marathon and said that he was a great guy, very nice and respectful.

Pulling a Shorter = having homosexual encounters?

Yeah, no, that's it.

I think it means drinking a liter of beer the night before a major marathon--and then winning the marathon.

By the way, I agree that Frank was kind to lesser runners. Right before he was about to go into a banquet hall to have lunch and then make a speech in connection with the famous VO2max study at the Cooper Clinic in Dallas in January 1975, he graciously gave me a few pointers about training. If ever a world classs athlete had an excuse to snub a lesser runner at that particular moment, that was it. But Frank was seemed very happy to talk about training. (He told me to cut back on the mileage.)