Here is a thread from 2005 on the 2:19 race:
https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=1129192
Here's a thread from 2006 where a guy wonders if he was the only guy in world history to break 1:56 in the 800 and 2:20 in the marathon. A guy on the 2nd page is shocked to learn he ran sub 2:20 the year before.
90srunnin wrote:
No idea.
Just bumping cuz I really liked Gabe and all his eccentricities. Curious to hear if anyone knows more about this. Or even what Gabe is up to now.
He was an interesting character for sure, it was fun to have him to watch.
But looking back, holy crap, American 1500m prospects were dim for a few years for him to be our champion for an Olympics.
Our top 3 in the 2000 trials have lifetime PRs of 3:35. Dont get me wrong, its not like 335 is slow, but we have 10,000/marathon guys now with 1500m PRs that fast or faster.
Two2Differentducks wrote:
Been there somewhat wrote:
Stanford degree "wasted" on him? That's not how education works. Get over yourself.
What's he doing with his degree? Finding happiness and being happy are not acceptable answers.
To be fair, duck didnt waste his degree, since a degree from Oregon is worthless to begin with, so its not possible to waste it.
n9 wrote:
probably wrote:
First, 200m indoor, flat surfaced tracks for the most part
Holy cow! Flat 200 m indoor track? For the MOST part? That must have wrecked so many ankles. TBH I haven't seen a FLAT indoor track ever. Maybe a school gym where they jog around the perimeter of a basketball field. But not racing.[/quote]
Before the University of Washington built their current indoor track, the races were held in Hec Edmundsen pavilion, which had a 200m unbanked track. The only oversized indoor track in the northwest was the Kibbie Dome at the University of Idaho, which I believe was a 290m track. Everyone thought the times that were run should have an asterisk next to them because it was so much faster.
My favorite was the one at Eastern Washington University (another 200m unbanked track); I remember it having a low ceiling, and people used to smoke indoors at the time. The air quality was awful by the end of the meet. I remember watching Josephat Kapkory win an atrociously slow mile race in something like 4:10 after going out around 2:00 at the 800 and dying hard. He looked like he was hit by a bus when he finished. A few weeks later he won NCAA 3000m in around 7:50.
hsdfjhjsdkfh wrote:
Before the University of Washington built their current indoor track, the races were held in Hec Edmundsen pavilion, which had a 200m unbanked track.
My coach took me down to Hec Ed in the winter of my senior year of HS and had me run with some of the Snohomish Track Club guys. They ran 20 x 880 (1 lap recovery jog) and averaged 2:20 on that thing!
I was in good shape from x-c and ran 12 of those 880s pretty comfortably before my coach decided it was time to go home. Looking back, though, running a workout of that volume on that track was probably unwise.
Also ran a 4:25/9:42 (mile/two-mile) double at the HS indoor meet that winter. It was actually a pretty fun place to run, but not nearly as much fun as running on the banked, 160-yard board track at the Seattle Invitational that year (despite the cigarette smoke in the Coliseum). That baby had spring!
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, there was no end of wretched flat 200m or 220y and irregular distance tracks in New England, square indoor tracks, 176y tracks, concrete, etc.
Been there somewhat wrote:
Stanford degree "wasted" on him? That's not how education works. Get over yourself.
Was a great thread until this post when it got sidetracked on normal Letsrun nonsense...
zxcvzxcv wrote:
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, there was no end of wretched flat 200m or 220y and irregular distance tracks in New England, square indoor tracks, 176y tracks, concrete, etc.
Yes, I remember running the mile at Yale on a flat track. You would think they could have sprung for a banked one.
Why are we talking about this in 2022?
Alexi Santana wrote:
Been there somewhat wrote:
Stanford degree "wasted" on him? That's not how education works. Get over yourself.
Was a great thread until this post when it got sidetracked on normal Letsrun nonsense...
Its a free county people are entitled to an opinion. I just don't like eccentric garbage and craziness man. For example if you like eccentric and think it is okay I just got finished up with a school board meeting as a parent in which we had the topic come up that students are now upset that there is not litter box facilities available in the bathrooms for the students that identify as cats.
Farm Teamster wrote:
Farm Teamster wrote:
Gabe on the beat-Da-da-digga-digga-da-da:
https://youtu.be/zg-mKEyfI10Here’s Gabe on the beat:
https://youtu.be/ChoWROC984c
Gabe winning 2000 NCAA 1500. Make sure you watch the post race interview at 5:07, Gabe sings his race winning song:
https://youtu.be/b055rP9fa_QOk Colonel Sanders, you think that Gabe looks rough now? You ain't seen Michael Stember lately have you?
The years have not been kind…to his hair.
Newsflash to you all, in your 30s and 40s you will normalize, whether you want to or not..
Mike Stembernis a millionaire, who cares what he looks like 💰
Two2Differentducks wrote:
Alexi Santana wrote:
Was a great thread until this post when it got sidetracked on normal Letsrun nonsense...
Its a free county people are entitled to an opinion. I just don't like eccentric garbage and craziness man. For example if you like eccentric and think it is okay I just got finished up with a school board meeting as a parent in which we had the topic come up that students are now upset that there is not litter box facilities available in the bathrooms for the students that identify as cats.
Bull F'in Sh&*te
Yessiree Bob wrote:
The years have not been kind…to his hair.
Karma will get you Bob
Two2Differentducks wrote:
not this wrote:
Most of his decisions were not logical. He and Suzy Favor would have been a good match.
Not in agreement with that Gabe is the type of guy that you would think was full of crap when he mentioned that he was an elite runner at one point and also a Stanford Grad. The first thing that comes to mind when you see Jennings is wow I bet that guy runs a meth lab.
Suzy on the other hand reminds me of Elizabeth Shue's Character in the 1995 movie Leaving Las Vegas. The only difference is Suzy would not be the type that would be hanging out with a low end Drunk that is deciding to drink himself to death. Suzy would have more clearly struck me as the type that would be arm candy for a billionaire.
As for Jennings I have met him raced against him and defeated him on a number of occasions in our hay day I am a little younger than him however we never hung out or talked. I along with other runners from the early 2000's thought Gabe was an odd ball outcast and as stated made erratic decisions. He would disappear and reappear and run a sub 4 mile go away for a year come back and do it again that is Jennings for you. He struck me as the type that was supposed to be playing some pot head instrument on the streets of San Francisco but got lost one day and found himself at a track and because he lacks common sense did not slow down when he ran the mile and fast forward Stanford wasted a degree on him.
Bro, stop lying. Jennings would have destroyed you in every race.
tough crowd wrote:
Newsflash to you all, in your 30s and 40s you will normalize, whether you want to or not..
That's true. Being in your 40s is tough. It will be so hard to train for a 204 marathon then.