He's not lying. The volume of applications for Hardrock and WSER was nowhere near the volume it is today back in 2012. It was simple sign up but not that nuts. UTMB is easy to get into if you have the points, which are not hard to get if you complete the races. It was significantly harder to finish those 3 than get in them. Also, no one would lie about it using Bear 100 as one of the races. They'd said Western or maybe Leadville.