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

my friends girl friend and i were talking at a party. I mentioned that I run competitively and she was like "you know... im a really fast runner" I was like "oh yah, what event did you race" . She went onto explain that she didn't actually run track, or cross country, but in high school she ran under 4 minutes in the mile.

When I assured her that she did not, she simply wouldnt have it. I tried explaining to her, that not only would she be the fastest female miler on the planet, that she was easy 15 seconds faster than me, and I run on my schools team.

She refused to aknowledge, so i dropped it. To this day, she believes she ran sub 4

When I was in high school a kid moved to our school from a rival school. He very seriously informed us that the top sprinter from that school had run a 3:30 mile in practice. Never backed down from it either. Seems like the sprinter would have switched to the mile where he would have won every race instead of coming in 4th and 5th in the 100 all the time.

Also, I dated the sister of a guy I ran track with who ran a 2:02 800 his senior year and advanced to regionals. But over the years it would get faster and faster. By the time I broke up with his sister he ran somewhere in the mid-1:50s in a thrilling state meet where he got boxed in or something.

I also went to high school with a famous NFL player who won the state meet with a 10.5 and 21.5. Looking him up on the internet many years later, I see that he is now a 10.3 and 20.9 guy (to be fair, it's not his website, so maybe someone else came up with those numbers).

westrn wind... wrote:

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

Gym is a building, you mean Physical Education class?

Douchebag^^^^^^^^^

A guy I worked with told me he ran a sub4 first mile at the Crystal Springs Cross country course in Belmont. Sub5 perhaps, but sub4 get the f*ck out...

TED GINN!

Snakedoctor09 wrote:

3)Went back to my HS to do a 3xMile Workout, afterwards a guy on the XC and track team claimed to run a 5:30 mile. When I know that he hasn't even broken 21 minutes for the 5k.

I find this quite possible. I know a girl that ran under 5:30 and just barely broke 21:00 during XC.

I thought about this later, and now thinks it's possible for people who actually run. But my high school could quite possibly have the worst running in history. The track team consisted of 2 people who ran something above 400m.

Bean curd wrote:

On the bodybuilding forum thread, I love the response by the guy who said he could throw 123 mph from both arms.

I love when OminousD said he does 100m sprints for cardio.

I was at a party this past weekend and one friend of mine told me that in a college class he ran a 2:04 800m - this from a guy that weighed 220 at the time. His reasoning was that he was playing a lot of basketball at the time (never ran).

A 2nd guy at the party was on a 3200m relay that had held our school record at 8:11. My team broke it running 8:10. He claimed that they had two guys on the team run over 2:20 and he said that he ran 1:51. I told him that was pretty good and would have been ranked nationally....he didn't seem to understand that I was making fun of him.

hahahaha taken from the bodybuilding thread

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I never jog over 6mph, but I can elliptical pretttttttty fast.

i know a coach who told me that he trained a guy on 15 miles a day with sundays off, the kid got hurt and when he returned healthy, ran a 4:13 mile. I asked him were this kid ran at and he said my high school. My high school record is a 4:24 mile and i asked for the kids name, looked him up and he ended up being a 5:13 miler. There's also a girl at my school who claims to run sub 2:00 in the 800, when shes really a 2:35

the girls swim team at my hs claimed that they all could run 2 miles in under 10:30 because the coach cut them if they didn't. The also claimed to run 5 miles a day and their route ended up being a .75 miles.

Old soccer club teammate claimed to run a 4:00 mile. 4 laps around a soccer field of course.

want to be back in cali wrote:

Right now there is a sorority girl at my Division 1 college who is telling people she broke the school record in the 800 (which is 2:02 by the way) and she's telling everyone she has practice every morning at 4am. Funny thing is, she ACTUALLY gets up at 4am and leaves to make people think she is going to practice. Her whole sorority is fooled. She has blocked everyone from my team on facebook because some of us were calling her out on her wall.

Not to mention her FB statuses are about practice and what not...girl is PSYCHO!

It's annoying having to tell random people who ask me about her and how AWESOME of a runner she is that, no, she is in fact a PHONEY! heh heh its quite amusing actually.

What does she actually do at 4 AM when she leaves? Does she actually go running? Because I bet at 4 AM there isn't much to do on your campus, with the library, the dining hall, the athletic center all probably closed until at least 6 AM.

I've often noticed that the people who exaggerate the most are often pretty good and have no need to brag so much. A guy on my track team, 2 years ahead of me, was an excellent athlete who pole vaulted 15 ft (indoor state champion) and ran the 400 just inside 50 sec. He couldn't really exaggerate about those (nor would he need to) because we all saw his performances but he would strongly insinuate to everyone around that he could win all of the distance races but was "too valuable" in the other events. Then, on one of his college breaks, he came to practice and informed us that he "warmed up with a 15 minute 3 mile" before starting his vaulting. We, of course, went with him on the warmup and left him behind with a few blazing 6:30 miles. I don't know why someone with his ability would feel the need to lie. I at least understand why slow people exaggerate.

I remember back in college some soccer guys telling us that the fastest guy on their team ran a 4:04 mile back in HS. The guy was quick but there was no way that he ran that fast. I replied that i doubted he ran 4:04 mile because i would have heard of him in HS. No 4:04 miler goes under the radar in HS track. I think the kid ran close to a 4:14 1500m and just embellished the time and distance to his teammates. A lot of people do that. Another time a waitress told us that she ran a 10 second 200M. She had obviously never participated in track and just pulled the time out of her anus.

a first year sprinter in h.s. claimed he ran a 4:36 gym class mile... and then with zero training for it, he jumped into an 800, ran pretty fast, and ended up splitting a 1:56 on a 4x800 two weeks later, so now i believe him.

Damn.

By the way, does anyone else notice that 4:36 is a very frequent claim when people are bragging/embellishing their mile time?

I once worked in a running shoe store where people came in all the time talking about their running. One particular guy came in with his girlfriend, and he was really talking up his game. He talked about how in high school, he was the number one runner on the team, and ran a sub-four mile.

But that wasn't enough.

He was so far ahead of his team, that his coach wouldn't let him train with the team. Instead, his coach would send him into the forest every day to do mile repeats. Only the miles were not measured out. Instead, he would find a deer and chase it. According to this guy, a deer runs at top speed for exactly one mile, and it takes four minutes. He would chase a deer for this time, then after four minutes, they would both stop from exhaustion. After they catch their breath, he would chase another. He would do that 8 to 10 times per practice and it made him really good. His girlfriend was eating all this up too, she was believing every word.

He said he ran back in the 1970s and trained like this.

I'll bet the movie "Deer Hunter" is all about him.

On another note, a high school kid came into the store one day and his mom told me he needed new sprint spikes. She said that he was racing so fast that as soon as he finished, they literally exploded and had smoke coming out of them.