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But even if Ryan did get his body fat measured regularly, as he implied to Politico, it seems oddly vain to do so. “If he was measured at all, my first question would be, why?” asks Men’s Health workout columnist Lou Schuler. “Why would a lean and obviously objectively fit congressman need to know his body-fat percentage? I don’t know mine, and I write about this stuff for a living.

Paul Ryan body fat: He claims 6 to 8 percent body fat. - Slate Magazine

This whole controversy could easily be put to rest if he simply provided his body composition scale records. Via Jon Evans.

09/19/12

“I hurt my back when I was in my mid-20s, so I had to stop running. So obviously, my perception of races and times was off,” Ryan said when asked why he told a radio show that he had run a marathon in under three hours. His actual time was closer to four. “I thought that was an ordinary time until my brother showed me a three-hour marathon is, you know, crazy fast. It’s just the fact that I did it 22 years ago.”

Everybody in the world will forget your best marathon time except for you because nobody cares. You, however, will never forget it, and you will know how relatively fast it was. Which is why Ryan is pretty clearly full of shit!

(via Paul Ryan explains marathon mistake)

09/6/12

Paul Ryan Marathon Calculator

Apparently insecure about putting the “running” in “running mate,” Republican Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan recently misstated his marathon personal record by over an hour — claiming a sub-three hour time, but having actually run a 4:01. Hopefully this isn’t his plan for reducing the deficit as well. Via Jason Kottke.

09/4/12

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