Henry Rono training for masters mile record.

My suspicions were confirmed p.7 next few posts down.

Howard (The Duck) wrote:

My suspicions were confirmed p.7 next few posts down.

Welcome to Letsru, Howard. Patti has been around for well over a year.

Hello Henry:

Are you averaging 2 hours of running per day or does it vary depending upon how you feel?

Good luck.

Henry Rono wrote:

TO Turtle souped up

I don't get it,when it becomes turtle souped up that even makes me get lost.

Henry

Henry-

Think of an old beat-up car that goes very slow. Now, I guy decides to make the car into a hot rod, puts in a new engine and makes the car much faster. Just like a turtle that is "souped up!"

Henry, many feel that you arrived suddenly like a bolt of lightening. Please describe how you began running, and what your teenage years were like traingwise and racewise.

To Bay staster

Back problem is due to weigh in you.specially from shoudlers up to hips and you need to combine with massues twice a week.I see alot of changes on me nowdays.As I say earlier people are confuse in my progress.Before I start this program.The doctor was about to assigned me with wheel chair.I was walking like a grandma and my health was dyteriating even walking I could even kick a rock and fall down.My back was giving me trouble from shoulders down to the feet even to put on shocks was a problem and no more now.With me, I was glad that I'm not working in the summer and my job is my body to work on.Take it back to suppose to be my normal weigh which 172lbs.I didn't see how I put the weigh on me to 215lbs now is 199lbs and the world is different.Problem is the weigh pressing you down.That is why I couldn't lift my knees up.To day I can.I hope I answer your question,perhaps you can comeback.this is the people I need to talk with. thank you.

Henry

To TViewer,

Thread should tell from the day I started.I think I began from 108,120,120,118,113,71,80,116/64,119,in here was the day I check my weigh 206lbs,135,136,dayoff,132,155,180,and today 140,my weigh is stable at 200lbs and I feel like I want to run another today.The weigh now is heading down-hill.and I'm rising up with my feet coming up easy.I'm not dragging my feet on the ground any more.So your question was do you average 2hrs and feelings.

How do you think I should abnswer this question.Sometimes you have to pint point a spot to start driving your feels and driving your weigh down hill.Study my data and come up with another question please.

Henry

Tviewer,

day 8 i ran 87min

hr and there is another missing somewhere to make 17 days of training

hr

to turtle souped up

okay souped up

that is a good senses of humor

now i get it.some of these new terms iam not fimilar with.

hr

To turtle souped up

Wrote:

Henry, many feel that you arrived suddenly like a bolt of lightening. Please describe how you began running, and what your teenage years were like traingwise and racewise.

Henry Rono answer:

I shock my self too and my roommate is scared to dead.

To talk about my up-bring to the ponit where I hit 80days four records it is in the book.I will attach two of my essay writings that will give you a summary.But I think most of you give coming back why here and why this and so forth....

I saw the light at end of a tunnel and I want to stay in the light.People here wants to see what I'm seeing.Is that sound very wierd.

Henry

To hawkeye,

I need to go for sauna now see you.

Henry

Henry Rono wrote:

I saw the light at end of a tunnel and I want to stay in the light.People here wants to see what I'm seeing.Is that sound very wierd.

Henry

Yes it makes sense to me. You want to keep aiming for the light, and not look back to the beginning any more as that would be the wrong direction. Better to keep aiming for the light, and what we are doing now, not before.

Thanks Henry.

Your answer was fine, thank you. I am really impressed that you started at such a long duration (100 minutes plus) to begin with.

Most people would begin (or be advised to begin) with

5-10 minutes out and an equal amount of time back to the start of their run. They would also be advised to add time or mileage at a rate of 10% per week.

Thanks again.

Hello Henry.

I am surprised no one has asked these questions but what make and model of shoes are you training in? Also, do you run in racing flats or trainers and what are your thoughts if any on training in racing shoes?

The flats versus trainers argument gets lively here at times.

Thanks a lot.

Henry, here is what I wrote about you once about the 1978 NCAAs:

Those of us who saw it will always remember we were lucky; we saw running become art.

I sat at the south end of the East Grandstands behind two cackling Princeton athletes. They were completely bewildered by Rono's running, gleefully pointing out to anyone who'd listen how stupid he was to run so 'recklessly.' I sat thinking to myself, 'These two knuckleheads don't understand what they are privileged to see.

Over the years we've all heard many athletes declare themselves to be artists. Rono never claimed anything; he just ran. But if ever there were a 'performance artist' in our sport, it was Rono. His performances were ephemeral. The only record left is the spoken (and written) word. So far as I know, there is no video record of his world records, nor of the joyous romps in Eugene. If there were, I could sell thousands of "The Rono Tapes" from the trunk of my car.

After his 8:18.63 in the steeplechase heats, when the curtain came up again for the 5000 heats, Rono wasted little time. On each straight Rono sprinted, each turn he'd cruise. On the straights Rono had this special way of cocking his head back, he'd lean forward, push his chest way out, pump his arms -- and whooosh -- it looked like he had his own personal wind carrying him down the track.

On the turns he'd float like he was walking on air. He's hit another straight, push that button of his, and the crowd would respond. You could hear the crowd on the other side of the track erupt as he flew down the track. He'd float the turn, push that switch again, and it was our turn to roar.

Rono had taking running to a new level. He wasn't simply running, he was performing.

It has been said that on the West Grandstand straight Rono even passed NCAA long jump champion Larry Doubley as he ran down the runway. I believe it.

Over the years we've all been privileged to see some great runners -- Kipketer, El Guerrouj, Gebrselassie, Tergat. All great runners, all with silky-smooth strides, and yet they all could be described as being mechanical. Rono was a 'runner's runner' who ran for the sheer joy of it, and left anyone so privileged to see his 'work' awestruck.

Let's put it this way: could Gebrselassie ever run 13:22 in a Spokane blizzard? Could an EPO-induced Brahim Boulami ever run 8:05 in a rainstorm during a dual meet in Seattle? I don't think that anyone knows what could have been with Rono. It doesn't matter to me. What I saw was enough.

Without a doubt, my memories of Rono got me through many a rainy winter training run. I'd cock my head back, lean forward, push my chest out, pump my arms and let my body follow my imagination down the road.

I even think there were a few times that I felt what it must have been like.

Henry, I know that Lasse Virin also used the sauna. What does it do for you? I assume it helps to loosen the muscles but I dont know.

Awesome post Malmo!!!

I'm a 52-year old who has been around the sport practically since my birth as a coach's kid, a runner of very modest talent, and for the past 30-years, a high school coach myself. And I've always been a great fan of distance running.

In all of that time, two races stand out in my memory: One was John Ngugi's win at the 1992 World XC Championships when they were in Boston. Anyone who was there will always remember Ngugi's powerful run from the front.

And the other race was Henry Rono's 8:24 2-mile in the NCAA Indoor at Cobo Hall which Malmo has already alluded to. I have never seen a display of power by a distance runner as Mr Rono showed in the final laps of that race. I'm still in awe at the memory of it almost 30 years later.

Henry, thanks for the memories, and best of luck in your return to running. This was the only time I ever saw you run, but it is a memory I will treasure forever.