Track Talk #6: Craig Virgin

By LetsRun.com
March 17, 2010
*To read about or listen to any past LRC Training/Track Talk, please click here.

The sixth addition of LetsRun.com's Training/Track Talk will be held this Thursday at 8 pm eastern. The featured guest will be 2-time world cross country and three-time Olympian Craig Virgin.  Virgin to this day remains as the only American male to have ever won the world cross country title as he captured it in 1980 and repeated in 1981.

In addition to winning two world xc titles, Virgin also set two American records at 10,000  - a 27:39.4 in 1979 and a 27:29.16 in 1980 - and won the 1975 NCAA cross country title. His 27:29.16 was the 2nd fastest 10k in history (Henry Rono's world record was 27:22.4 from 1978 to 1984) at the time.

Virgin was known for his aggressive training and racing style. As Virgin said in a great profile of him on activeness.net, "My approach wasn’t sophisticated. I would just go out and run as hard as I could.”

Virgin is a fascinating person to have on the show as he'll have a ton to talk about as his time at the top of American distance running spanned from the absolute very best time in American history with the likes of Steve Prefontaine and Frank Shorter in the 1970s to the absolute nadir as Virgin retired in 1992 when the only American names worth mentioning were Bob Kennedy and Todd Williams. Additionally, Virgin was a charter member of Athletics West and he also was one of the very first members of the group to depart for greener pastures.

If you have questions that you want to ask Virgin, please email them to us (Please include your hometown as we'll announce your first name and home-town when we ask the question). This live internet broadcast with Virgin will not be devoted exclusively to training talk. We'll certainly talk about training but we'll also spend more time talking generally about his 40-years in the sport of distance running.

If you want to participate in the call by calling in or chatting a question, click here.

For background info on Virgin, we recommend checking out: *LRC MBoard: Who was/is Craig Virgin? *Going the Distance: Catching Up With Craig Virgin *Craig Virgin's Website

To listen to past editions of Training Talk, please use the player on or click here to be taken to a page where you can read summaries of past editions or download them to itunes.

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