Not only is the dude considered to be one of the best CEOs in the US but he ran a 4:06 in High school and in recent years has went and hobby jogged a 2:53:20 marathon in NYC among numerous other sub 3's at over the age of 50. Talk about success right, who here is jealous/mad?
He then went to UMass. What were his College times?
I'm trying to look up his College results to, let me know if anyone finds them.
Also, I thought this was amazing -
https://www.runnersworld.com/newswire/t-mobile-ceo-offers-unexpected-performance-bonuses-at-nyc-half
He offered money out of his pocket for men dropping sub 61.
Appears he ran a 2:30 a number of years ago. Makes me wonder how good he could of been in the Marathon had he actually cared when he was in his prime ?
Massachut wrote:
I'm trying to look up his College results to, let me know if anyone finds them.
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Completely absurd. Without looking, a 4:06 mile during the 70s would have been very rare, and Legere's name would have been recognized by the cognoscenti. Thom Hunt territory. Easy to verify, or in this case, debunk. Legere doesn't make Jack Sheppards annual lists in any event, any year. He would have been the best recruit ever at UMass (any campus).
The 4:06 in high school or college don't exist.
After some research the guy in the video saying "I heard he ran a 4:06" is just stating a rumor, John himself states he was around 4:15.
Per Marathonguide.com back in 2011 John ran a 2:53 in NYC 2:54 in Chicago and 2:58 in Boston. Pretty rad for an old guy nontheless and definitely better than 99% of the kids on here.
Agreed that it seems there should be some record. I know a practically anonymous 4:10 HS miler from the 70’s and his times are easy to find.
I talked to a guy last year who was walking on a trail. He told me that he ran a sub 4:00 mile in high school.
I told him that he did not run a sub 4:00 mile in high school because then I would know his name, instead of being an unknown person telling a BS story.
He insisted that he really ran a sub 4:00 mile in Virginia when he was in high school.
"I did it on our local school track. It was 3 laps to the mile."
Too bad DE-BUNDLING will be destroying his company
Appalachian trail runner wrote:
I talked to a guy last year who was walking on a trail. He told me that he ran a sub 4:00 mile in high school.
I told him that he did not run a sub 4:00 mile in high school because then I would know his name, instead of being an unknown person telling a BS story.
He insisted that he really ran a sub 4:00 mile in Virginia when he was in high school.
"I did it on our local school track. It was 3 laps to the mile."
These are the kind of stories that make Letsrun the best.
He's in his high school's hall of fame, which indicates that he was on the cross-country, track, and basketball teams:
http://www.stbernardscchs.org/home/organizations/hall-of-fame
But I don't see any lists of school records, and it appears that the school no longer has cross-country or track teams:
http://www.stbernardscchs.org/home/athletics/athletic-programs
I've looked for comprehensive lists of the all-time fastest high school runners in Massachusetts, and this is closest I've found. They go pretty deep, and I don't see him on the 800/880, mile, or two-mile lists (I read that he has school records at all three distances):
This is pure gold wrote:
Appalachian trail runner wrote:
I talked to a guy last year who was walking on a trail. He told me that he ran a sub 4:00 mile in high school.
I told him that he did not run a sub 4:00 mile in high school because then I would know his name, instead of being an unknown person telling a BS story.
He insisted that he really ran a sub 4:00 mile in Virginia when he was in high school.
"I did it on our local school track. It was 3 laps to the mile."
These are the kind of stories that make Letsrun the best.
I worked with a guy who thinks he ran a sub-4 mile as did many guys with him in the army. He said "I barely made it, they called out 397, 398, 399 as I was finishing"
By the way, Legere and Alberto Salazar both graduated from high school in 1976. Alberto set the the state two-mile record that year. Bart Petracca (who posted on letsrun a long time ago) also graduated that year, running 4:15.0 in the mile, which appears to be the fastest -- on record, that is -- in the state that year. I'm pretty sure that Al and Bart can tell us about the mysterious 4:06 miler who was somehow overlooked by everyone else.
As someone stated above, if you watch the video, the random guy they interviewed says "I heard he even ran a 4:06 mile!" Legere didn't say that, the guy in the video did. Legere states he ran 4:15 mile and ~9min 2 mile.
Tide PODS wrote:
As someone stated above, if you watch the video, the random guy they interviewed says "I heard he even ran a 4:06 mile!" Legere didn't say that, the guy in the video did. Legere states he ran 4:15 mile and ~9min 2 mile.
"The random guy?" You mean Jim Cramer?
I'm not sure what video you're looking at. The "Mad Money" video linked from facebook by an earlier poster doesn't seem to include the part of the interview that you're referring to.
Appalachian trail runner wrote:
I talked to a guy last year who was walking on a trail. He told me that he ran a sub 4:00 mile in high school.
I told him that he did not run a sub 4:00 mile in high school because then I would know his name, instead of being an unknown person telling a BS story.
I talked to an old guy at the track who said the same thing. Too bad, I didn't have your perfect answer. I've met several other people who claimed a sub-4:00 mile.
I also asked some braggart triathlete what his 40km bike time was for the Olympic tri distance. He said under 30 minutes.. I was like wow, that's fast, 80km/h!
Tide PODS wrote:
As someone stated above, if you watch the video, the random guy they interviewed says "I heard he even ran a 4:06 mile!" .
"The random guy"? LOL.
Lots of fake news in that video. So UMass/Amherst was where "all the top runners went"? (Other than Randy Thomas, who went on to become a very good marathoner) Thomas' school record in the mile was 4:08.
Maybe he meant they were better than Harvard at the time. I tend to suspect this is a case of "The older I get, the faster I was".
Hats off to 2:53 after 50 though!
...so we are concluding that his HS mile PR was slower than 4:28 (one mile) and 9:40 (two mile).
..now what were his College times?
YMMV wrote:
Lots of fake news in that video. So UMass/Amherst was where "all the top runners went"? (Other than Randy Thomas, who went on to become a very good marathoner) Thomas' school record in the mile was 4:08.
Maybe he meant they were better than Harvard at the time. I tend to suspect this is a case of "The older I get, the faster I was".
When Legere was a senior in high school -- presumably when Harvard "recruited" him -- Harvard actually had some very good runners who were coming back the next year. If Legere was too slow to make any of those three lists that I linked to -- and it's certainly possible that he was merely overlooked -- I don't believe that he would have been a very attractive candidate for Harvard to recruit for cross-country or track. They didn't need 4:28 milers and 9:45 two-milers for their team.
I wasn't aware that UMass/Amherst was especially good when Legere decided to attend. I don't believe that Randy Thomas was still there. UMass/Lowell (which was then called the University of Lowell) had Bob Hodge and Vin Fleming. Northeastern had John Flora (a future U.S. record holder on the roads), his brother Bob (a little slower, but still very good), and Bruce Bickford (who later was ranked No.1 in the world by Track & Field News). The best collection of college runners in New England back in those days were actually at Providence College, which had, among others, future 2-time world cross champion John Treacy, his brother Ray, Mick O'Shea, future 2-time Boston Marathon winner Geoff Smith, Gerry Deegan, and Dan Dillon.
I understand that these kinds of inaccuracies and distortions can arise as information gets passed from one person to another, and perhaps that happened here, but I do wonder why some people in high places feel the need to embellish about this stuff. (I thought tht Paul Ryan's fabrication, on a nationally broadcast radio show in the heat of a presidential election, was especially bizarre.)