We all know that Paul Ryan is a fit dude, his addiction to P90x is legendary. What we didn’t know till last week that Ryan at one point as a pretty-good marathoner. On a radio interview last week Ryan said that his personal best time for the 26.1 mile race was “. . . under three, high twos. I had a two hour and fifty-something.” That’s really good. How good is that? He’d probably finish in the top 10 this year’s Delaware Marathon with a 6 minute 50 second mile pace.
But wait, Ryan is not that fast, not by a long shot. Ryan’s one marathon on record, Grandma’s Marathon 1990, has Ryan running a 4 hour and 1 minute marathon. Big difference. (Click on the image below for a bigger picture.) Later, a Ryan spokesman tried to clear up the issue with a statement by Ryan.
The race was more than 20 years ago, but my brother Tobin—who ran Boston last year—reminds me that he is the owner of the fastest marathon in the family and has never himself ran a sub-three. If I were to do any rounding, it would certainly be to four hours, not three. He gave me a good ribbing over this at dinner tonight.
Or as the Ryan campaign later said, “His comments on the [radio] show were the best of his recollection.”
Yeah, that’s s another whopper of a lie. I let Michelle Malkin explain, “Doesn’t recall his time? As I say, runners remember everything. And they never let you forget it either.”
