Biggest lie I've heard about running is that Haile and Geb are clean. Now that's a whopper.
Biggest lie I've heard about running is that Haile and Geb are clean. Now that's a whopper.
Not easily amused wrote:
Biggest lie I've heard about running is that Haile and Geb are clean. Now that's a whopper.
Aren't Haile and Geb the same person?
Maree claimed that he would run 10 miles under 5:00/mile pace every day. Whether it's out the door or after a warmup, I don't buy it for a second. Not a chance.
i once heard that El-Guerrouj ran 6x400 in 60sec in training, what a bullshit, El-Guerrouj would never run that slow.
I was going into my Sophomore year and I got on campus housing with random roommates (I know that was stupid, but I got a better dorm because of it.) So my new "roomie" found out I was on the cross country team and started asking me the typical tidal wave of questions about training and my PR's and such.
This guy then goes on to say that he can do everything that I've just told him, so he's going to come out for practice the next day. I told him it probably wasn't a good idea because he wasn't in shape and he'd just get lost on our run. So he comes and talks to the coach the next day at practice and he makes him go get a physical before he can try out.
A few days later he's got everything done and he decides he's going to come on an 8 mile run with us. He says, "I know I can handle it, I ran 2 miles a day every day this summer." I'm thinking about calling his BS and then decide to let him prove it. He was pretty pumped up about training with us so I didn't say anything.
So he starts off leading the run even though he has no clue where we're going and he jumps out 5 meters ahead of everyone and asks us at every intersection which way we're going to go. That lasted about a mile until he started drifting farther and farther back until we didn't see him anymore after 3 miles.
We eneded the run around 5pm and there was no sign of this guy anywhere. He didn't make it back to the room until around 9:30 that night and said he found some people playing tennis and had to catch a ride back to school from them. He then proceeds to tell me about his new found respect for our sport and how stupid he was to ever think he could hang with us.
That weekend he put on his camo wife beater, got trashed, and went to go "Kick some fraternity ass" because nobody gave him a bid. He dissappeared halfway through the semester and I've never seen him since.
This British guy claimed to have run 1:41 and 3:49 off of 60mpw.
Right.
did he lie though? when he said he could do what you had done that sounds more like unrealistic expectations than lying. maybe he did.
i at least give him credit for admitting afterwards that he was way out of his league and not trying to put another lie on top of it. once they've been shown how bad they are, these guys usually just either make some other bullshit excuse or slink off without saying another word.
a woman i work with told me she does her running at 5 min/mile pace. i asked her "did you say 5?" and she said "yes 5." she knows i'm the track coach at the school where we work, and proceeded to repeat it two more times with a straight face.
maybe she meant kilometers.
my brother in law played soccer in high school and thinks he's faster than me. so he challenges me to a race at the local swimming pool. There's a grass stretch of about 150 yards. haha. i'm thinkin wtf will that prove? so i said no way and he now assumes i'm scared that he could beat me in xc or something. wow.
The girls team at my university were huge fibbers on pace as are a lot of girls teams/runners that i've known.
They used to talk about running 6 minute miles on their training runs as if it was normal. Like for 8 mile runs and such. Yet none were even breaking 18 for a 5k. And as rare as it happend, sometimes guys would run with their gf's or something and said they'd be JOGGING while the same girl that runs 6 minute miles was struggling.
Bekele is all natural is good for a belly-buster.
i HATE the "could" people. You know, the people that "Could" be good at running, but they just don't want to. Or the people that "Could" run a 4:45 mile if they wanted to.
XC Junkie wrote:
I had this guy at work tell me he ran a sub 4 on the first mile of the Crystal Springs 2.95mi (Belmont, CA) Cross country course.
I told him maybe he ran sub 5 but not sub 4.
that first mile's a doozy
to the first guy...he might've run a 100 yd dash
Is it possible most of these people are not lying, but simply do not understand the sport?
Side Splitting wrote:
Bekele is all natural is good for a belly-buster.
And the fact that you think your opinion matters or that anyone would believe you "because you said so" is the most side splitting part of it all.
Lindgren was bullshit, and is bullshit.
Big Talker.. Go back to Idaho you idiot.
Ashton M.
We got a freshmen in and he told us he had run 7:13 for 3000m. He could not even break 30min for a 8k. Also another guy that came in said he had run a 1:50 in the 800 but never broke 2:05.
On the other hand we have a kenyan that ran for us and when he first got here he said he only had run 2:22 for 800m. His first race here he went 1:57, and his best was 1:52
When that A-hole Eddy Hellbuyck "won" the Maui marathon the year I ran it, and stood on the winner's podium with a big, sheepish, cheesy smile on his face and accepted the booty.
Instead of the "6th" that was officially recorded for my place, I (in my mind, at least) am the 5th place finisher of that race.
As far as lies go, anybody who cheats is just as much of a liar, and a-hole as Eddy in my mind.
I was reading Better Training for Distance Runners and I came across this little gem: "During most of his youth and even afterward, Seb Coe used an undulating valley road as a test course. On this road, observed by his coach from a following car, Seb would run 6 to 8 x 800m with short recoveries (as short as 1 1/2 min), all at his 800m race pace." (pg. 237)