To malmo,
You are not too shiffy.You did a good job.Are you working for Nike?How come you seem you know all of these!
You know from day one to the end about Nike Company.
Henry
To malmo,
You are not too shiffy.You did a good job.Are you working for Nike?How come you seem you know all of these!
You know from day one to the end about Nike Company.
Henry
Henry Rono wrote:
To malmo,
You are not too shiffy.You did a good job.Are you working for Nike?How come you seem you know all of these!
You know from day one to the end about Nike Company.
Henry
No I do not work for Nike, I don't even know anything about the shoe business.
This was the best I could do:
1978:
Just before the World Games a Kenyan runner Henry Rono ran his fourth world-record and won clearly the 3000-meter-steeplechase, although he did not break the world record.
Seems like Henry doesn't remember you...
turtle souped up wrote:
1978:
Just before the World Games a Kenyan runner Henry Rono ran his fourth world-record and won clearly the 3000-meter-steeplechase, although he did not break the world record.
I think Henry ran about 8:17, with the rest of the pack bunched up in the 8:23-8:26(me) range.
I remember Kipkemboi Kimeli winning the world junior cross country title in '85 or '86 in his bare feet.
To Malmo,
I was coaching Kipkemboi kimeli that year in 1985. The training camp was in Nyeri. I told him,You have a foot that runs like a wheel because it rotates.So he tells people now days that when Henry Rono tells you-you will win and you will win.
Most of my coaching approach is basically from psychological approach by observing athlete's physical movements and his mental approach.I have seen that in many athletes that I coach now days around the globe. They wonder what did I changed on that athletes'mind? Kimeli knows these stretagies very well.He is coaching me nowdays because I need my pay back from his successful medal winning in 1988.He is also a very good massues therapist.
He has the sense of intuition once he touches your muscles,he can tell what you are going to do in a race.He help Ambarak Hussein to win Korea marathon.We are in good program over here in New Mexico.I pay close attention to him in order to improve my fitness the same way,he was paying attention to me in 1985 and 1988.
Henry
Henry
Henry
Henry Rono wrote:
To malmo,
You are not too shiffy.You did a good job.Are you working for Nike?How come you seem you know all of these!
You know from day one to the end about Nike Company.
Henry
Henry- malmo is smart as an Etruscan Neurophysicist, but crazy as a Marmoset on Psylocibin. He is the David Thompson of running, and if you wonder what he looks like, take out a one dollar bill and look at the eye above the pyramid. Extrapolate the face and body that goes with that eye and you have yourself a facsimile of malmo.
"I know nothing! NOTHING!"
Although Nike did make special colored shoes for the top guys, (Like Malmo if he is who I think he is) Vanquers were yellow with orange swooshs. I've seen a color picture of Henry wearing those blue and yellow ones and they are Triumps, for sure! LEss heel build up etc.
Alright - to hell with it - just ask - Who Is Malmo?
Thank you Henry for your initial remarks concerning "The Great Race Debate". I hope we can discuss this topic some more.
Are you guys new or something?
malmo is a guy named George Malley.
To Skuj
I want you to feel comfortable at all-time for more discussion because we all need progress in life.My spirit is high as you can tell,which means I'm on the right track and most people don't like it.
Please don't be distructed by an asholes,who are always like to live on distructive behaviors.We all need exploration in life.So we have to extend for the question you asked at above.Thank you and Good night
Henry
Yes, Jeff brought the name to company. Knight wanted to call the new company "dimension six".
malmo, your comment about Pre is certainly understood. Bowerman would likely have pissed on Knight's leg, little doubt, if he had the opportunity. Bowerman did not like the company's direction in the late 80's and the 90's.
Henry. Thank you for your great running and now for this wonderful thread. Best wishes in whatever you do.
Hi Henry, I think the best thing would be to go to a local drug store and ask the pharmacist for a recommendation for an allergy medication. There are tons of different over the counter drugs that you can get without a doctors order. I use Benadryl but there are many others. Several years ago, i went to an allergist with symptoms such as yours and spent months getting allergy shots but I dont think they did much.
The body will probably eventually immunize itself to whatever is in the air that is bothering you but it could take a while. I notice that when I run a race out of town that I am sometimes bothered by a lot of coughing, etc. but when I get back home, I am fine. Every location has its own set of pollen and molds that present a unique challenge to anyone who has not trained or lived there. In my case, I dont race out of town much during the allergy months but I save racing for the winter months when possible. For me, its no big deal, just an inconvenience but for some, allergies are serious barriers to training and good performance at races.
Pollen is the problem in the AM and molds in the PM. It might also help to keep the AC on, wash your bedding frequently, and shower right after a run to help remove the pollen or mold. Anything like that will help keep the allergens from enterning the body. Hope this helps, Johnny
To Johnny dajogger/Skuj
Listen 199.9lbs today and guest what?
I had a long talk with my coach last night.
Today contest:
1)How did Henry Rono prepare for four world records?
2)What was the main important point for Henry Rono?
3)What made Henry Rono to stay focus until he finished four records?
4)What do you think could have prevent Henry Rono for not breaking his four world records?
5)What made Henry Rono lost interest from running in 1980s
Hurry guys
I will talk later about today running strategy and how I broke the barrie of 200lbs.
Henry
From ronorun:
Ambition was a runner who began the training.
before it was too late, he made his
calls to his coach, but it was the
day the coaches son was sick, I waited for his advice.
everybody else seemed anxious, wanted to do it or to drop it, but I was
fired up. I waited because I had the
goal to do it at any chance I could get.
hurry up, for the coaches advice. It was my
intention to achieve optimal goals, so I
jumped into the specific plans, and it was great training the
kind of a person I was, I took it into my daily diary. I
learned to focus; I listened to the coach attentively, and I
mastered, and I gained confidence as days went on.
Nothing else was on my mind. I was
optimistic for my future running career; I didnt fall into
pessimism and the training was easy when I turned down negativity.
quickly enough, I could see good results coming up. I kept my running
routine on target, a schedule of all exercises I had. It was
satisfying and made me continue in the path of training even though I got
tired. Sometimes I could talk to my heart, mind and body to come together. It was
unity that made the life of a runner easy, and everything else was a
victory in any races I could get into, and the
winner received a huge, cheerful crowded stadium, and the runner stood in an
x-axis position, bowed his head down, to receive the medal being put around his neck.
Young people loved it with lust when they declared a medal winner. The ambition was
zeal to be the formula to achieve four Gold medals in one summer season.
I cannot resist pasting from your site, Henry, for convenience. Hope you don't mind. (I'm amazed that on the morning before the Salazar 10000m, you did hard hills!!!)
The 80 Days of Running Joy
The four world records were achieved in 80 days. It took all the footage of TVs, radios, and newspapers around the world. No publications had ever published anything like this. At the end of the session, I was ranked number one, the athlete of the year, against other sports figures in the world when the four events were brought down with new world records within three months: 5k, 3k ST, 10k, and 3k. The media has been bombarding me with a lot of questions ever since. I say I didnt have to have a set formula like they do nowdays, where a meet director lines up pace makers and pulls out Kenyans in the race to settle down Moroccans and Ethiopians to break records, and sometimes, it is impossible for them to meet the record. My breaking world records were according to my own formula, and it was enjoyment. What beautiful emotions! What a pleasure! I was stable all the way. I had ups and downs. I had a chance to lead.
I told my coach, Chaplin, "Im going to break four world records this year."
"The world will say you are crazy," Chaplin said. I wheeled around and I said, "Stay tuned. I will be kicking up the dust."
The first world record of 5000 meters was set at Berkeley, California on April 8, 1978. National Coach Mike Kosgei witnessed it that afternoon when he saw me removing four and a half seconds from the New Zealander, Dick Quax. Unlike Quaxs way of breaking when he just took a tip of a second, I felt I had the world by the horns. It was my greatest emotional joy of the day. We were hanging and talking wildly, like crazy, at that moment. This was what I was looking for. I felt I had entered the enjoyment of the world of running.
"I will be telling my folks when I go to Kenya I have not seen anything like this," said Kosgei.
The following month came. It was May 1978. Kosgei invited me and his friends for supper before the Seattle dual meet. We were celebrating for the upcoming 3000meters steeplechase in May 13, 1978. He saw me jotting down on a piece of paper; the prediction time: 8:4 minutes.
At the Seahawks Track stadium in Seattle, Washington, during that stormy season, the world record for the steeplechase was taken by two and half seconds from Kanterude Kadenan of Sweden. That rainy day didnt change anything; the world record went down as it was planned.
"How come you seem like you didnt do anything? You are not smiling," said Kosgei. It became my conviction that letting too much out of my mouth is not going to cut it. I said, "Not yet, Two to go."
The following month, I traveled to Europe. As I was at the airport in Vienna getting into taxi cub, the Austrian press surrounded me, "Just one question. What time are you putting down tomorrow in 10k?" I told them 27:22 minutes, and they let me leave.
During the 10,000 meters, few other runners were among us. The 1976 Olympian Jos. Hermann ended up placing himself in second position. He ran just slightly under 28minutes, and that was what he was there for. He seemed like he was contending with his time. Half of these 10,000 meters went hardly slow as we heard announcement speaker; "You are off the world record by 4 seconds" I said Oh! It is about time to pick it up." I ran the last half at a high speed and put 56 seconds on the last lap to complete 25 laps. It was my number three world record, 27:22 minute. My countryman Samson Kimobwa's world record I slashed by 8 seconds on June 11, 1978. The meet director screamed out loudly and cried. He couldnt believe what I promised him had came true.
Came the fourth world record in Oslo, Norway for the 3000-meter. My roommate, Olympian medalist Dr. Mike Boit, and I woke up early that morning for our warm up in that green mountain forest of Norway. "It looks like we have done enough warm up," said Dr.Boit. Let us climb this hill a few times. "Boit accepted reluctantly! For how long?" I told him 45 minutes would steam us up.
"Are you going for the world record today?" I said, "Yes, after this hill" When we were heading back to the hotel, Dr. Boit kept asking me questions. "Why so much intensive warm up?" I said, "Just wait. I will take the world record today by 3 or 5 seconds."
The Norwegian press already knew the fourth world record would definitely go down that evening, so they didnt bothered to asked me the strategic plans of setting world record. They introduced me to the crowd. The whole stadium was very quiet. You could hear a pin drop. We are going to witness the fourth world record broken by Henry Rono as he gets the history books this evening." At the end of 3000 meters and they announced the new record was set, the whole stadium came alive with voice like thunder that came all at once.
The evening of June 27, 1978, 30,000 spectators saw the 3000 meters start with the minimal pace at the beginning blowing silently like water in the river. Then it was not enough paces of to show of a world record. The front runners took the lead and with their effort, completed the first mile in 4:04 minutes. I noticed the pace felt like a snails pace, and they were gasping for air. Suddenly, I thought perhaps the world record might be attainable, and it was true. I came from the back like a rocket, pulled the pace to 50 meters ahead of every runner, and held the pace at high speed for three and a half laps. As I pulled myself in front, "They looked like they were standing, said Boit. I rounded up with three and half minutes. The Briton Franden Fosters 3000 meters world record came to an end that day. Those who never saw my smile before, they saw it that day. I ran around the stadium twice, shaking every person I could meet with joy. Then I was counting 3k, 3k ST, 5k and 10k. It was emotional joy knowing that my dream had come true.
When Western world journalists kept bombarding me with a lot of questions about how I did it my running compared to with Cabrie Saliesie and the way Kenyans were dominating running around the globe, I answered them, "Have you forgotten how four world record events fell in 80 days?" The Kenyan runners have not forgotten their heritage. When you have the right formula, you get the right answer, unlike the Moroccan and Ethiopian runners who set up their equations with two unknown variables; and in most cases, they appeared to be on their way to world records, but in the end, they produced nothing.
The Track & Field reporters asked to compare Cabrie Saliesie and me. I answered. "The two have different tastes. One has pace makers to meet world records, and the other uses formula. Oh! I almost lost four-world records due to my foolish pride if thought I was crazy. I had my time. I had a chance to lead. I had beautiful days of running that money couldnt buy: the 80 days of joy running the world. I was stable all the way and counted on my blessings. It was a wonderful 80 days.
"Are you going for the world record today?" I said, "Yes, after this hill"
Henry,
Up early
Animals have much energy this morning
Started like turtle
Move faster before sun hit ground
Feet make no sound
Almost home i hear rooster crow
Hurry tea getting cold.
Great stuff.
1)How did Henry Rono prepare for four world records?
2)What was the main important point for Henry Rono?
3)What made Henry Rono to stay focus until he finished four records?
4)What do you think could have prevent Henry Rono for not breaking his four world records?
5)What made Henry Rono lost interest from running in 1980s
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1) He ran. A lot.
2) Happiness and belief in himself.
3) Unstoppable desire and determination.
4) Doubt.
5) Doubt.