Adrian, you came along during the last days of Shamateurism...how did you support yourself during your Reno days? Did you need a day job to off-set your running?
I assume you did most of your running in the hills/trails behind campus...probably with the Tibaduiza brothers.
Adrian,
So I take it you fully recovered from this illness? Reason I ask is I got sick with CFS in September '83 (as a HS junior) and never got better. Same as you describe, I had been training and racing quite hard and then "POOF" one day I was wiped out. Took a whole month off, first time in 3 yrs, and started up again. It was always harder than before, but I would have some good days. I did a 4:28 mile and there was a day that I did a 2:09 and 63,63,63,61 in training. But then again, one day I just fell apart and could not break 3:28 for 1200 in the DMR. Was never able to run again.
Like many runners in the USA I found a sponsor plus I made a little from winnings, nothing like today's $$$$$$$ though.
I loved running in the trails on Pevine Peak above campus. I lived right next to it for a while, out the door, turn right and on the trails, fabulous!! Lots of speed work on the golf courses, through town along the river when weather conditions were bad and up in the Sierras occasionally. Did a 4 hour run one time up to the top of Pevine with one of the younger UNR runners, he kicked my butt ;-)
Ran with a mixed bunch but had some seriously intense workouts with Domingo around Virginia Lake and also a long road fartlek we did a few times. Morning runs at 6:30 just 30 mins, anybody welcome. Afternoons could get very intense, one long run Sunday. That got longer and longer when I returned to UK, up to 23 miles much of it XC, with guys like Jack Buckner or Dave Buzza occasionally met up with out on the route.
The regular hour runs in Reno could get quite frisky depending on how I felt, I always ran as I felt, feeling good meant a burn up, feeling bad meant a struggle.
Sorry to hear about your CFS, like you it ruined my running. After struggling with it for 18 months I got back a little sharpness occasionally but I never got back the spark I had.
maestro111 wrote:
I'm a big fan...thank you sir for your effort. I enjoyed it. Long live the Moosehead Lager T.C.
I was wondering what affiliation the yellow "North" singlet was for. I know you ran for Southern Idaho, Moosehead TC, and a variety of other clubs, but what did the "North" singlet represent?
That's a really simple one Joe; it was a North of England representative vest/singlet. I liked cotton vests, no chafing aand yellow stands out, just ask Craig that one. Another club in the USA was Four Corners which Nike put together for all of its foreign athletes. Fancy having Nyambui in the same club, although his explanation for the Four Corners name was unrepeatable ;-)