AHMED runs 3:35.94

media coverage wrote:

YO DUFUS, THEY TESTED LAGAT RIGHT BEFORE THE LAST OLYMPICS AND HE FAILED FOR EPO......NIKE HAD BILLIONS OF DOLLARS AT STAKE SO THEY GOT HIM BACK IN.......SAY HELLO TO BEN JOHNSON FOR ME WHEN YOU HIT CANADA, EH?

ha ha

you said BILLIONS of dollars for a shitty sport like track

you also typed in all caps to indicate you were screaming..

ha ha ...fool

Ahmed? Salazar?

What about Abdirizak Mohamud, Foot Locker winner in 96 and 97. I think that might be who 'perspective' wants us to name. And rightly. Mohamud was a legend high school distance runner. Anyone know what's he's up to these days?

Holy Sh!t...does that H.S. recruit immigrant runners?!?!

Salazar was much better than Mohamud in high school and beyond. Mohamud was working as like a lawn detailer for the Yankees then quit that to drive a cab.

Salazar ran for Wayland HS, whereas Ahmed and Mohamud ran for Boston English.

Mohamud did more in cross country than Salazar did in high school, but Salazar did more on the track. Mohamud probably had more talent than Salazar, but maybe 1% of the love of running that Salazar had.

Mohamud won the national Footlocker within 2 months of beginning running. Then came back the next year and won it again.

Of course, post high school, Salazar is the most accomplished, with Ahmed doing some excellent running nowadays. Abdizirak Mohamud did not pursue the sport.

Legend has it he smoked two packs a day and only ran three times a week. At least, that's what people used to say...

He's a graduate of Boston English HS. Anyone that can graduate from a Boston H.S. is American!

Myers has a hard time getting up from the track after Ahmed knocks him down and finishing hard. Ahmed is a shit.

Ahmed has been in the US long enough to be considered a "bonafide" American. ( He's been here over 10 yrs. ) Why is it that you have to be some purebreed white guy to get respect in American distance running ? Yes, Ahmed is black ( gasp) and Muslim ( oh no!) , unlike Josh "I Heart Jesus" McDougal. Get over it.

The odd thing about Lunn is that he has won US championships and posted top world indoor times in the mile, but he has never broken 3:36 for the 1500.

I roomed with him the year he went to Lindenwood. He told me that in highschool he wanted to be a spinter, but his coach thought he might be a decent distance runner. His first year or running he never ran more than the 1000 meters....think he broke 2:30....i think. Said he didn't do anything the summer before he won Footlocker the 1st time. Pretty amazing.

At Lindenwood he finished 4th in the NAIA CC meet behind three Life Kenyans. He ran 24:0X at Kenosha.

Would have won the NAIA indoor 800 that year as well, but was making a move with 150 to go (the exact same time his teammate Ian Godwin was) and got tripped up with his teammate and DNF'ed. Injured for outdoor.

Left LU to run at Michigan State, but I don't think he ever made it up to E. Lansing.

He was VERY homesick when he was LU, and probably went home for the summer and never wanted to leave.

Wound up running for LIFE a couple years later and may have finished top-15 at NAIA CC that year.

He was a great friend and a HELL of a runner. Just didn't have the love for the sport that some others did/do. Always was trying to cut workouts short. I think there was one point during the outdoor season when he was eating AT LEAST 1 Big Mac a day....when they were offering the, for $0.99....not quite the diet of a serious runner.

I think he wanted to go to Arkansas after Lindenwood, but apprently there was some really deep-seaded dislike between him and Sharif Karie (who were both at LU together), and that may have affected his plans to go to Arkansas.

Ahmed is still an asshole!

get lost. n199a would cap yo.

BuckeyeO wrote:

Ahmed is still an asshole!