What is the most outrageous high school gym mile exaggeration you have ever heard?

3 times around a park was a mile in my hs. they measured it now to be 3 and 3/4. also...6 times around my square gym was 400m. i ran 59 running hard back then haha. 24 turns!

bump for the bodybuilder forum with the guy claiming 3 minutes.

I second the bodybuilding.com forum thread from about 6months ago about the teenager just continually insisting he ran a 3:00 mile in gym class ...even after 20-30 people on that forum of bulk protein guys called bs on him for that and knew enough to point out to him that it's bs as it's like 43something seconds FASTER than Hickham El Gouroosh's woRLD RECORD. Bodybuilding.com forum people then proceeded to post an embeded youTube video of El Gouroosh's WR 3:43mile on that bodybuilding.com forum thread... and yet the teenager insisted he ran 3min for a mile. It was just unbelievable. And I am 99percent sure He was not trolling - just really mixed up mathematically/psychologically, sad....
Also, He is apparently a certified personal trainer...

Also, my younger brother claims he ran 6:00 mile on the treadmill at a health spa when we went up to a ski resort town one year for family vacation. I guess he turned the treadmill up to 10mph and stayed on it for a full 6min but considering his best in gym class was never much faster than low 6s I'm not sure I believe him.

There is also a d2 lacrosse player at my school who claims he ran 4:50 for the mile in gym class in response to my telling him what I run for a mile as a member of the d2 xc/track team. Now I guess it's possible, but I just don't believe him, I met him. Maybe it was 4-5 laps around Mrs crabtree's grass field near his high school's soccer and baseball fields...

3 minute mile guy was hilarious. He even started training to do it again didn't he?

I tried looking online for the 3-minute mile guy topic (albeit not too hard), but couldn't seem to find it. Does anybody have a link to it or know how to find it? Maybe it got deleted..

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cool story, bro wrote:

I tried looking online for the 3-minute mile guy topic (albeit not too hard), but couldn't seem to find it. Does anybody have a link to it or know how to find it? Maybe it got deleted..

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Yeah you"re right. I mean it's possible just in both cases I know the people and likely exaggerated. I'm surprised if anyone breaks 5 in a gym class mile if they don't already run xc/track...
Maybe the d2 lacrosse guy ran 4:59 and not exactly 4:50. Yes it's possible he ran that I just met the guy though he was a bulky defensive lacrosse guy and I think itd be more likely the fastest he could actually run one is 540...

I ran a 6:25 gym class 1600m in 10th grade and came in 4th in my class out of the 20-30 or so boys and girls (this was before I joined xc and track and got 1000x better), but yeah I mean in many cases the times seem exagerated, 6:25 is enough to come in close to the top, if there are some to run high 4s and in the 5min range in gym class great but usually it doesn't happen. Sometimes the gym teacher just decides "Ok! We're running the mile!" and the gym teacher in my 8th grade class decided this after we had just gotten back from a field trip where we'd ate McDonalds for lunch 1hr ago.

Did Ian Edwards claim any huge records? I work with a guy that claims he "ran a marathon every day during summer break" in high school.

Not a crazy claim, but back in college we had a fitness class, and we had to run a timed mile and half. This crazy lax player said he could beat everybody by sprinting all out for 200, and then jogging 200. He looked great for a lap, and then we all got to watch him do a death march for the last 5 laps. He ending up walking the last lap.

I heard about a HS guy from Maryland who supposedly ran in one meet 47.4 1:51, 4:17 and 1:46 relayleg . All for wins. In the space of two hours? LOL. They said he also won the state XC champ several years in a row.

good grief

We had a guy in HS, grade 9-11, who could run 2miles in the 12minute run. We ran around the school track, exactly 400m. The best I could do was 7 and a bit laps. Most guys barely ran 6. This same 8 lap runner could also run the 100m at our county meet in about 12.0-12.2 and the 400m in 58. Could have been a running machine but he played hockey instead.

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Castaway wrote:

I heard about a HS guy from Maryland who supposedly ran in one meet 47.4 1:51, 4:17 and 1:46 relayleg . All for wins. In the space of two hours? LOL. They said he also won the state XC champ several years in a row.

good grief

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Actually it wasn't. Timed by everyone there. He also ran 1:48 several times that year.

We knew he would get the baton behind a pretty good Dulaney team, but Rodney Giles did in fact run 1:46 relay leg


Did win indoor state champs and 300m and did win state XC at least 2x

Military boot camp trainees have similar stories. It seems that the winner of every run sets a "new course record"!

That bodybuilding forum thread was one of the all time best. I remember reading it from start to finish and it provided hours of entertainment.

Yeah it was great because did not seem to be trolling, he legitimately believed he was 43 seconds faster than the world record. There was nothing you could say to convince him otherwise.

He finally conceded after several months that he was wrong. I can't remember the tipping point, maybe he actually went to a track and realized 3 minutes wasn't happening.

Back in the 70's I ran 3:38. As soon as I was done I said you realize that I just shattered the world record and I swear my gym teacher thought it was true! I'm guessing that the course (we didn't have a track) was 3/4 of a mile.

this is from a PH D candidate in Exercise science (by now he probably has earned the degree - my understanding is he went to Kent State...so if you knows any moron PH D's from Kent State you may have just run into this guy).

Guy's wife ask me how fast i can run a mile..."4:30's i say"...oh, well he (her husband - Steve Hamer) ran a 4:08. I'm thinking wow - this Masters student who doesn't look like he can run an 8:00 min mile was a 4:08 miler (I get the impression this is from high school days because he says he got injured after that).

Next time I see him, I ask where he went to high school because there haven't been any 4:08 milers in Kansas in some time. Oh, this wasn't in high school - it was in 7th grade! he tells me - serously believing that he is a 4:08 Junior high school miler....after i point out that no one in the world has ever run that fast that young - he tells me more - it was in Cross country. well that it explains it - since anyone with a brain knows CC times/courses are not accurate.

but don't you have enough common sense to realize that if you ran 4:08 (the fastest time in the world for a junior high runner) that it is courious that you couldn't come remotely close to that in track season...that there were probably a handful of other runners that day the ran well below the fastest they had ever run (like sub 5:00).

and to think that you are going to get a PH D in exercise Science but aren't smart enough to conclude on your own that you didn't run a mile in 4:08 in junior high...and that now that i have pointed out the error in your judgement i wonder if this guy and his wife still believe and tell people that he once ran a 4:08 mile.


I wish i could say that is the end of the story, but he conducting a stess test on me in the WSU lab - where i real PH D person had tested me at 80.9 max vo2 about 1 year earlier (i know i said i was only a 4:30 something miler ealier - but that is what i could run at that time - my best is 4:10.9)...in his moronic version of the stress test it only last 15-18 minutes, doesn't even remotely take me to my max, he even tells me to sprint the last minute (meaning my max heart rate occurs during the cool down = this test was filled with so many error i couldn't believe it)...the final results were my max vo2 was 54 something - to which i tell him there must be some mistake as i have tested much higher previously, and can run a sub 31:00 10K...a 54 vo2 max and sub 31:00 don't jive.

he doesn't have enough intellegence to question his methods, but wonders if i held my breathe during the test - what?

Later, in a separate moronic incident he tells me a lady he has tested ran her marathon at 97% of her vo2 max - again i point out that this is highly unlikely - as most world class runner don't hold much over 90%...but crazy thing is he believes all these things: that

1) he ran a 4:08 in 7th grade (so he is the world's best)
2) that my vo2 max is 54 though i can run sub 31:00 10K
3) that a recreational runner ran at 97% of her vo2 max for a marathon.

and he may well hold a PH D in execise science today. WOW!