Biggest Bullshit Lie You've Ever Heard About Running Times or Workouts

CO-Runner wrote:

Running with the Buffaloes ...

The Tank Run ... 6 miles out and back for a total of 12.

From the trailhead to the tank is only 5.5 miles, so its only 11.

Actually, it's only 5.38 or so, so going to the tank and back from the Arapahoe t.h. is 10.74, a full quarter mile short of 11. The 6-mile turnaround (for 12) is down where the trail meets the street, which is Cambridge Street, and IIRC there's a t.h. sign/marker there, too.

How about Jon Gill and his coach talking about talking on ELG at the Olympics. That summer Gill went on to run a 4:17 1500!!!!

Gill is probably the strangest hype story in the history of US track and field.

For the CU runners, the Tank run includes running all the way down the hill to the street, not just turning around at the Tank. It's just a marker. They also take the roundabout a few hundred meters out from the Arapahoe Street side (South) trailhead. It is maybe an eighth of a mile longer than the straight shot on the eastbound road. The run itself is called the Tank because you can see the water tank for most of the run. It's not the turnaround point in most cases unless you are getting rolled.

wasn't he a 347 miler?

Cool story. Hey this guy can still brake 20for 5k in his 50's {Linley Lipper 20:47 }

Yep, the dude has the record still..although the outdoor mile hasn't been run in a long time. 4:05.9

Eric Heinonen is apparently not averse to spreading the bullshit:http://dailycamera.com/bdc/running/article/0,1713,BDC_2413_3965712,00.html

Midway through earning his business degree at the University of Colorado, South joined the Marine Corps, hoping to eventually make it to flight school.

He ultimately decided the military didn't suit him, but during basic training South discovered he had a talent for endurance activities.

"As far as basic training that was what I enjoyed most, the physical aspect," said South, who clocked 13:59 for the Marine Corps' famed PFT three-mile run.

approx 85% of guys in the military greatly exaggerate their running times or atleast the times of other guys at their base. Some guy they know ran 10 miles in 50min with boots on and a 50lb pack. Or they ran 1 mile in under 4 min and so do half of the guys on base. Plus they do it with full gear on.

I remember when I was on the track team in college there were these ROTC guys that lived in the building next to me and one time I saw them in the cafeteria when I was eating with some other track guys. They walked up and started asking us about our times or whatever and they both said that atleast half of the guys in the ROTC were in better shape than our track team (this is a Div I school with a decent team).

These stories are great! I'd like to add in two of my favorites from college.

We had a guy sprinter on my college team who supposedly ran 21.9 and 47.9 in high school. He has yet to break 52.0 or 23.0 in college. His excuses are even more over the top than his h.s. times. "My hamstring is completely torn" - has appeared a couple of times. So has: "I have mono". This kid has supposedly had mono four or five times in two years. Plus, he has also had a "serious blood infection" once or twice, too. The best part is, he's a delivery boy for a local pizza place so on days when he misses practice or a meet with one of these imaginary injuries, sometimes some of my buddies and I would order delivery and he'd end up bringing it over!

We also had a woman sprinter who started out as a soccer player - she decided to run track because "her high school coach said she had so much natural speed". In her college career, she didn't break 14 or 30 in the 100 and 200. Our university's soccer coach told one of our other team members that she was the only girl he'd ever cut from a team, in like 15 years of coaching! Apparently, she was just too bad for words.

BIGGEST T&F LIES (by a USA athlete)

#1 Marion Jones' claim that she ran all those fast times without ever having used performance enhancing drugs -- or as she carefully phrases it "without ever having tested positive".

#2 Marion's claim that her $5,000 check to BALCO was for vitamins! I wonder what she pays for dry cleaning?

biggets lies i've come across:

1) All the reasons Regina Jacobs gave for missing various Summer meets in Europe including Worlds

2) The guy who told me a few years ago that he was 6th in the 1986 california hs state meet 800. I made sure he didnt mean another year or another place or another event. He was adamant (sp). I knew who all the names and places from that race and I never heard of the guy. it was a lie.

3) the message board thread on the 4-minute barrier breakers

4) a guy at my college who ended up doing his own meets b/c he had to redshirt since he was a transfer. this is before the internet age, so results were hard to confirm by the average person. but word would got out that his times were BS. he would always switch the numbers around. if he ran 1:57.2, he would say that he ran 1:52.7, if he ran 1:56.4, he would say 1:54.6. he had problems i guess. he was fired for stealing inventory at a sporting goods place where he worked and apparently burned bridges or got into to trouble at his old school. i remember his dad was a cop. I went to a meet with him once since he was driving. he drove about 90 mph the whole way. he made up a lie about the meet and told it to the guys on the team even though he knew i was at the meet and could call him on it. he had problems.

5)a guy who ran 30:58 for the 10km at MT SAC, a good mark for him. it was even in the results. what he failed to tell everyone that he finished a lap short. a congratulated him one day and he accepted the congratulations.

6) anyone that has used illegal drugs to improve performance. their times and performances are a big lie.

Anyone who has ever claimed their 400m PR is 49.9 especially in a relay

I'd have to say a 49 second 800. Her figure skating coach said that they have to run all their 800s under 52 seconds and 400s under 25 seconds if they want to stay on the team. It just makes no sense. Even if you cut the distances in half, its still obviously rediculous for 14 year old girls. What an idiot.

I too was told by somebody that their 800 pr was 49. This was a male junior in college.

The key word is "junior college"

I was once running in Fresno, and this guy(about 20 or so) who was standing out in front of his house started telling me about how he use to live in Oklahoma and ran 20 miles every day and played on the baseball team during track season as well. He said he ran about a 14:00 3-mile and that companies like Nike and whatnot wanted to sponsor him, but he didn't sign a contract with them for some stupid reason I don't remember. This guy no longer ran and was smoking heavily as he told me his story.

LOL! There were two guys on our XC team at Tampa (DI) who were also ROTC...quite good runners, better than me (I had a good excuse: Being 37 years old). Most of the ROTC kids, though, were a complete waste of bandwidth.

We have a guy who works out with us now, claiming 15min 5K times when he was in college (four to eight years ago, give or take a year). I doubt he's 19min right now, yet he talks about all the screaming times he ran in the past.

What's with the bull$#!+ of talking up past glories, man!?

I ran an 800m race when I was 16. USATF JOs in Omaha. Went out in 48.8 and finished with a 149.9.

Yea, I used to be the shit in highschool.

Oh, am I posting on the wrong thread?

theres a dude i met when i was out in boulder last summer named bryce young or something, and every thing that guy said about running was a load of bull. he claimed all these times and talked smack on people that he said he demolished but apparently never did. i've never met someone so full of shi^ in my entire life! beware those in boulder or going to boulder.