Runner: Brianna Jackucewicz
Injury: puberty
Runner: Brianna Jackucewicz
Injury: puberty
Bruce Kidd's best mile (4:01.4) and 5K (13:43.8) were run in 1962 at age 18 on dirt tracks. In 1964, Bruce had problems with his feet and tendons and retired after the Tokyo Olympics.
No runner who ran their best times on dirt tracks came close to reaching their potential!
Didn't Komen have some sort of injury?
yesteryear. wrote:
Jim Schankle-achilles.
Don Janicki-achilles
Jim Ryun-overtrained at a young age.
I think Don had a pretty long and successful career. His injuries just came at inopportune times (not that they're ever "opportune").
How about Louis Quintana?
Ghost of Ashenfelter wrote:
How about Louis Quintana?
Louie and already mentioned here.
Add Rich Kenah to the list. 1997 was his only truly injury-free year and he ran 1:43 and won a pair of bronze medals behind Kipketer.
I read that Patti Catalano Dillon cracked her tailbone in Honolulu while body surfing after the marathon.
And she ran a 2:36 in the '84 trials.
Oh, and me: injury of the peroneus brevis (sp?) at its insertion in the foot. Never able to run since.
Actually, Bruce got back into running in 1974, running the Canadian National Marathon Championship in Kitchener in 2:21.37 (12th best on th Canadian all-time list at the time). He then ran 2:20:18 in Atlanta moving to 11th on the all-time list. Bruce still holds Canada's Junior 5K record.
Buddy Edelen - sciatic problems curtailed his career.
David Merrick
W. Mitty wrote:
David Merrick
"I am not an animal! I am a human being! I... am... a man!"
according to Living in the Past....anyone who didn't compete to at least the age of 30 and got all of their prs between the ages of 28 and 30. Everyone else burned out and peaked too early.
real life gets in the way wrote:
according to Living in the Past....anyone who didn't compete to at least the age of 30 and got all of their prs between the ages of 28 and 30. Everyone else burned out and peaked too early.
Show me the quotation you're referring to.
In the meantime, I'll point out that I posted in that long Jim Ryun thread from last year the ages when milers like Cram, Aouita, Coe, Ovett, Morceli, and El Gerruouj set their personal bests for the mile. The average age for the group was 25. (That's why I think Prefontaine was already near his peak when he died and that he would have been clobbered in Montreal by Klaus-Peter Hildenbrand and Rod Dixon in trying to upgrade from fourth place in Munich.)
You sound like you're a member of the Jerry_Jogger fan club. Your intelligence quotient seems about right. (So here's to the influence of Glenn Turner and positive thinking. Don't fear the mileage!)
KK...was the best in the world, chronic foot problems have bothered him for years and kept him off a couple of olympic teams.
Not exactly a running injury but didn't Ondoro Osoro get shot shortly after winning Chicago?
My vote goes for Noah Negney. That car accident changed the future and made sure El G. was the most dominant miler ever. Not saying he would have been better then El G but he sure could have mixed things up for him from 2000-2004
Also Alberto Salazar. He had the guts to train as hard as anybody, his body just wouldn't let it happen.
Harald Hudak. 3:31 1500 behind Ovett and Wessinghage in Koblenz in '80.
Never heard from him again. I think he was only 21 at the time.
Also Ivo Van Damme.
Olaf Beyer - 800m in 1:43.8 at 21. Suffered an ankle injury the following year and was never the same runner.
Hi Orville! What was on the menu today after the run?
What about Doris Brown Hertiage?
patti wrote:
Hi Orville! What was on the menu today after the run?
What about Doris Brown Hertiage?
Patti, I'll assume you mean when she fell and broke a leg in the opening parade. Was there something else I do not know of? I don't know if DBH would have medaled in the '72 OG 1500 her PB was nowhere near the WR level and a group of women were running 4:05ish. I doubt DBH was sub 4:15. She was held backmore by the "Ladies shouldn't run distances attitude" of the Dan Ferris clubhouse gang. I believe se was at best up around 5K-5 miles.
Greetings Orville hope all is well out left.
Tom