Posted on 09/01/2012 1:01:22 PM PDT by nickcarraway
“A sub-3 hour mile is really fast. How could he not know he was claiming a near miraculous feat?”
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I am 68 years old, six feet four inches tall and weigh around 255 but I am fairly certain I could do a sub 3 hour mile hopping on one foot 8;>)
Romney/Ryan have an out with ANY and ALL questions regarding their past. When a reporter questions them about their past life they need to give the reporter an assignment to get the answer to their question:
"When you get me Barack Hussein Obama's grades or the name of his first boyfriend from college I'll give you the answer to your question. In the mean time, shut the hell up."
This is a silly little story about nothing important. But the MSM has a habbit of blowing little stuff up when in comes to conservatives. Don’t underestimate the power of the MSM of creating the meme that Ryan exaggerates and puffs himself up. The MSM already put out that Ryan’s speech on Wednesday was full of ‘lies’. Add this little exageration...and drip, drip, drip.
Ryan is one of the good guys...IMO...and he’s under the microscope now. He needs to be careful.
Interesting. Your title includes a parenthetical interpretation of the piece at The New Yorker, wherein you state "admits" marathon "claim" was "false". That's three words connoting some sort of misdeed by Paul Ryan that are actually only your personal FReeper opinion.
How Mouthpiece Media of you, carraway.
Not me (bad arches).
Exactly! And that is why you have record books, kept in a safe location for reference, IF there is ever an important need for the info.
We used to breed/raise/show, too. Our old records are in a box somewhere in the basement; certainly not in my head.
Downhill maybe.
Is this anything like rounding off the number of states and coming up with 57?
lol
okay, and whatever.
Ah the anti Romney bots out today tryin’ to make a scandal happen.
That’s the OP’s goal. OP is not fooling anyone.
Hey New Yorker. How fast can you clean up the mess in your pants after your boy obama gets a political whipping from the american people for lying to them for the past 4 years.
I still know my best (and only) time. It's from 49 years ago: 19 hours, 50 minutes +/-2 minutes for 50 miles: 1963. Thought I was going to die before crossing the line...and they had run out of the "I did it!" shirts by the time I got there. JFK's 50 miles in 20 hours challenge.
People who run races competitively will never forget their best time.
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Some people have better and lots more things to think about.
I forget my own birthday at times.
We all have different things that are important.
That’s awesome!
I was training for a marathon in the mid 90s and my plan was to do longer distances once I got one marathon under my belt. I was so addicted to running I could not sleep if I did not run that day. My favorite thing in the world to do was to go for a nice long leisurely jog of 20-30 miles. I dreamed about running almost every night. I was trying to increase my speed when I developed a serious problem.
Just before my first marathon I developed SERIOUS tibial band friction syndrome. I didn’t run for ten years after that. It just would not go away. I can now (finally) run but only about once or twice a week, and only for 2-3 miles, or the problem comes back with a vengeance.
I’ve discovered walking lately. But now I’m getting problems with my feet. I don’t have enough flesh on the bottom of my feet. Its like the bones are pushing through the bottoms of my feet. Pressure on nerves on the under side of my feet is causing numb spots on my toes. Tendons that are on the bottom side of toe joints are becoming damaged too. I can feel them through the skin on the bottom of my feet. In some places the skin on the bottom of my feet is as thin as the skin on the back of my hand. Getting ganglion cysts on the tops of my feet too.
Not fun getting old.
You have no clue what you are talking about.
When you do something only once, and it nearly kills you, you tend not to forget it no matter how trivial it is in the scheme of things: it reminds you to not to ever do it again.
I remember the time because it was within 10 minutes of the deadline...deadline: an apt term.
Thank you!! My last one was 3:41; but it was back in 1988!
I wonder which of the 57 states Ryan ran his in?
I’ve discovered walking lately. But now I’m getting problems with my feet. ...
Perhaps your body stepped in to warn you to cool it with the running. Imagine the condition of the soles of your feet if you had run marathons for those intervening twenty years.
I am a runner recovering from a serious injury. I am discovering the joys of improving my front crawl. There is always something else to make life interesting if one sport fades away.
I used to run them in the 30s. Honestly. Don't remember the exact times though....
Back in my lifeguard days I do remember that I ran a sub 5 minute mile once. Didn't think much of it cuz one guy that worked with us was clocking 4:10s. Yes, he was on a college track team.
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