The Biggest ... Liar??

NBC knew what happened.  The husband/wife made errors in judgment to act the way they did, probably due to pressure from TBL show.  Knowing the volatility of ferreting out BS with the internet these days, are they actually surprised this came out so fast?

But people cheat in life all the time and make false claims to make themselves feel/look better every day.  The dude and his wife are getting dragged through the mud because of this.  And the real sad part about it?  It is the running and tri community that propagated it ......... Not at all something I would expect from those communities.

I feel sorry for them.

I was thinking the same thing! I was actually feeling bad about myself. I've been running for years and this guy does his first marathon in sub 4 hours with about 2 months of running in his whole life! So did he only do 17 or 23 miles because 23 is still impressive, granted they did lie about him finishing.

It's got to be 17 miles in 3:56. Running 23 miles in 4 ish hours still puts him at just over 10 minute miles... I doubt it.

We were surprised at the finishing time as well. It made me depressed as I couldn't run that fast after losing almost 100 pounds in 6 years and training for tris since '04 and he is still quite a bit overweight.

His cousin is training for a HIM and when he was voted out his home interview was mucked up as well as to the distances....he said he was training for an Ironman that was 1.5 mile swim, 80 mile bike and then 1/2 Marathon.

In watching the full clip on line he does use the word half Ironman but when edited they included the part that he refers to it as an Ironman.

Where are the fact checkers?

I looked at my wife when they said that he ran a marathon in sub four hours and I said, "Wow! That's a bad-azz run at 250 pounds"  I couldn't think of anything thing else to say.

I have busted my hump for 6 months on the running front and ran at least every other day.  I had to slow down my long run distances when my knees, ankles and quads were crying from the pounding that my then 220 lb body was giving them.

After all of my hard work, I am hoping for a 4:30.  4:20 is my stretch goal.  Finishing and having a good time is my primary goal.

I was a feeling that my progress was nothing if he ran a sub-four at 250+

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I was like wow. Thought it was a bit odd, but was wow'd nonetheless.

wait a second.  You mean a reality show executives were able to manipulate a contestent to do something they might later regret?

I don't beleive.  reality show execs clearly have the best interest of the cast first, ratings second.

Yeah, this amazes me.  I mean, it's ben shown time and time again, in the past 8-10 years, that any BS will be sorted out via the vast thing that is the internet, and yet people still try to cover things up.  Does nobody get it?  Or is the average person just dumb?  (rhetorical question, I know the answer to that one...)

I've heard that the actual finish was 5:53 -- the bulbs were doctored to look like 3:53.  don't know if that's true, but that would be a more accurate time.

I highly doubt he could do it in sub 4:30, which is about what it would have been if he did the missing three miles.

This is being discussed in two seperate threads in CoJ:

http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=148343&posts=53&start=1

 http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=148497&posts=41&start=1

If you look at one of the pictues in the second page of the 1st linked thread, you can definitely see that it was close to 6 hours.  

If you cheat... you will know and have to carry that anchor of a burden with you all your life.  When you're 80-years-old, sitting in a rocking chair on a porch at the old age home, in the back of your mind -- you'll know that you're a cheater.  

Karma.  If you cheat, you will pay for it eventually and most likely indirectlly.  There are definitely spiritual penalties for cheating.  If not in this life, then perhaps the next.

Yeah, I really truly and genuinely believe that 100%.