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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDid Paul Ryan run competitively other than in marathons? 5K, 10K, etc?
Last edited Sun Sep 2, 2012, 03:30 PM - Edit history (1)
I am curious to know just how fast he was when he claims to have been pretty fast in his youth.
I realize he ran only one marathon, but I am seeking times in other distances.
(Searching this out is a challenge considering the current clutter around his marathon time.)
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)Ryan's spokesman.
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)His marathon time was incredibly slow. I was looking to see if he ran "fast" in shorter races.
riverwalker
(8,694 posts)best article with links in it to Runners World
http://rootedcosmopolitan.wordpress.com/2012/09/01/ryans-personal-worst/
"that he has run one marathon, in 1990"
H. H.: Are you still running?
P. R.: Yeah, I hurt a disc in my back, so I dont run marathons anymore. I just run ten miles or [less].
H. H.: But you did run marathons at some point?
P. R.: Yeah, but I cant do it anymore, because my back is just not that great.
H. H.: Ive just gotta ask, whats your personal best?
P. R.: Under three, high twos. I had a two hour and fifty-something.
H. H.: Holy smokes. All right, now you go down to Miami University
P. R.: I was fast when I was younger, yeah.
Note that Ryan didnt say he couldnt run another marathon, but that he doesnt run marathons anymore, that he had a personal best, which conveys the meaning that it wasnt a single event, but a period of time where he ran marathons, plural. How would the term personal best have meaning if you did that thing only once? How could he run only one marathon but mistakenly remember it as more than one