Famous people who were runners

bezunesh bekele she is a legendary singer in ethiopia and has personal best's of

8:52 for 3k.

15:02 for 5k.

31:10 for 10k.

1:08:07 for the half marathon.

2:23:09 for the marathon.

she puts other celeberties who have run the marathon to shame.

Ralphy wrote:

O.J. Simpson- ran from the law

he also was on a 4 x 100 relay team that set the world record. with lennox miller and earl mccullough and i cant think of who the 4th member.

It was actually a 4x110-yard relay, and since even the USA went metric right after, it's still the world record.

bdc wrote:

Bill Clinton visited my city in the early 1990s. He and his entourage went for a morning run on a street overlooking the city and lake.

He wasn't a runner.........he "ran around" with other women.

Wilt Chamberlain.

dsaadsasd wrote:

So, Thomas and Blago are decent runners, but Dean K runs a sub-3 during his 50 in 50 and people consider him a hack? What am I missing? Seems like a double standard.

The first two - and I'm no fan of theirs, believe me - are famous for non-running reasons. For a random person from the population, in this case a Supreme Court justice, 3:11 is pretty outstanding.

In Dean's case, running is his entire claim to fame. He rubs some runners the wrong way because his fame (due to his running-related self-promotion) seems to exceed his actual running accomplishments.

Many runners are much faster than Dean and much less well known. But they are not on the Supreme Court.

chonga wrote:

Robin Williams 800m

1:58.8 800, plus 2nd leg on a 3:21.7 4x400. (times converted from yards).

Vincent Furnier was a xc runner in high school and formed a band with his teammates.

He became pretty famous.

Brady Grapehouse wrote:

Does anyone know of famous people (politicians, actors, writers, musicians.....) who were good runners before they became famous for another reason?

I can only think of Nicholas Sparks. Writer of The Notebook and a bunch of other books that became movies. He was apparently a pretty good 800/miler at Notre Dame before strikin it big with his books.

David Bowie

Bryan Ferry

Alice Cooper

Iggy Pop.

That's just the 70's rock contingent.

Iggy and Alice also played golf from an early age and still do.

Coach D wrote:

[quote]chonga wrote:

US Presidents that played football:

Eisenhower

Kennedy

Ford

US Presidents that ran cross country:

Jimmy Carter

Draw your own conclusions.

Actually Kennedy had 0 legislation pass and Ford got little done. Eisenhower was great as a general but as prez he was a racist and tried to limit many things that would come about in the 60's. Give him credit for interstate system and keeping taxes high on uber-rich to pay for everything. Carter had good ideas and accomplished more than Kennedy and Ford by far. Saw nation's ills and called it out but too many not willing to listen.

to list of famous add:

Beyonce was a pretty fair 400/800 runner at age 10-12

Natalie Portman - ran xc and track

Many others but brain too tired from big, long day of great football

Malcolm Gladwell. Very good writer was also a very good junior mid-distance runner growing up in Canada. He probably could have gone pretty far in running but didn't pursue it.

Have yet to hear of a time for Jimmy Carter. Curious to know.

Dexter Holland and Greg Kriesel of the band The Offspring met at Garden Grove High School on the cross country team.

Oliver Reed was a decent runner, regularly ran 10 miles and the originator of the Wimbledon 8

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wimbledon%208

Bruce Dern (the patriot with the hot wife in The Burbs) was a runner. Lots of marathons and even ran a 7 hour 50 miler.

Doyle Brunson

"Carter had good ideas..."

I stopped reading when I got to that. "Good ideas" are the bane of human existence. (Ideas that are good are its salvation.) Ask anyone encumbered with a socialist government and not in the ruling class. Jimmy Carter is nothing more than a racist with socialist ideals.

No way jose wrote:

Bruce Dern (the patriot with the hot wife in The Burbs) was a runner. Lots of marathons and even ran a 7 hour 50 miler.

Dern had some serious talent. He ran 2.03 as a 13-year-old, chronicled in this profile from 2006. It also mentioned that he ran 10 miles in 60 minutes...a solid effort. And, as a masters over 40 ran a 2.12 at the senior olympics.

I took a piss on my nutsack and called it Jack Black.

M.C. Confusing wrote: