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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Curious about this. What made me start to wonder this was seeing an old friend post on social media about her new running hobby. I've run for 25 years so I was like, oh that's great. Then in a one month period she went from "really pushing myself to make the 5 mile mark!" to "I average 10 miles per day, with an average pace of 7:30."  She's an overweight Marijuana enthusiast of nearly 50 who's been running maybe 6 weeks? Is this real? If so, those times suggest that she could easily train to become an elite runner. I just can't figure out what the motivation would be to lie though. Is this something people lie about?[/quote]

Ask to go for a run with her. [/quote]

lol +1[/quote]

+1000. Even better, ask her to go run 10 miles, but only ask her the day before. That’ll shut her up real fast.

For me, I don’t want any of what I am doing on social media. I have a Strava account but very much limit that to a narrow selection of friends that seem to like to encourage each other. I really prefer to be left alone. I will let the race results speak for themselves, and even with those, I’m competing with myself anyways.

For sure people lie about this stuff. [/quote]

Why would you do this, unless you are a hateful person? For some kind of fun gotcha? [/quote]

I think the predicate question is why would this person make up such outlandish claims in the first instance. Lying is a major character flaw. Sometimes people need to be smacked in the nose like a dog with a newspaper. They are better for it and maybe the behavior will stop. [/quote]

I'm sure you are a perfect person that does nothing wrong. Did you just seriously just compare a person to a dog? OP, people lie all the time. Maybe, in this instance, try to approach with compassion or indifference. How in the world does this impact you? Why are you letting this bother you? These are more important questions.[/quote]

OP here. You're responding to someone else. I posted the question and am just taking in the answers. But that pp is right. I'm curious why someone would lie about this. And I'm not entirely sure that she's lying, tbh. It's possible, like a pp suggested, she is naturally an elite runner that missed her calling until late in life. [/quote]

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