Mark Nenow

For the record, he had the fast runner-up finish to Bickford in 85, a 27:40 to Bick's 27:37.17, which was the WL for the year (believe it or not!)

In 86, he was 2nd to Aouita at Bislett, 27:26 to 27:29. Then at Van Damme he runs the AR 27:20.

There was a great little photo package in T&FN saying "The 10,000 isn't for wimps" with pics of Nenow grimacing in his AR and another of Aouita after the Bislett race taking off his shoe with blood everywhere (he was spiked). Appeared in the AOY issue, where Aouita won, I think.

p.s. you could argue he was as talented as any American ever ...

honesty??? honestly????

I have a book written by Thomas Wessinghage and it shows Nenow doing drills(high knees) with Christophe Herle of Germany and Marcus Ryfel of Switzerland. Maybe there was a little more to his training than is generally believed.

I recall abck in the late 80's when The Runner (Mark Bloom) was still in publication, there was a featured article about Mark. Anyone still have this issue around they migh be interested in selling? Let me know.

Anybody have a pic of Nenow?

here's a picture of Nenow. it's on page 18 of our media guide. enjoy.

same pic in the track media guide, just zoomed in.

bad link. here it is.

Scrolling through that media guide, I got to wondering: what happened to Tim Harden?

yeah, right...and Jim Beam

Mark now works for Brooks. He was with Nike for many years.

Isn't Nike's Ghost Racer named after Nenow? Someone once told me he was "the Ghost" because he was always out running and never around. Heard he is a classy and fun guy.

anyone got mr nenow's training from his prime?

I was trying to find the article from Runners World (From the training log of....) but couldn't locate it yet. The search will continue as I would love to re-read it myself. I was hoping someone else would have it.

I went to a hamburger joint once with Nenow. A nice, humble guy. I will never forget when he took a few packets of salt (from the table) for later use.

van wrote:

Isn't Nike's Ghost Racer named after Nenow? Someone once told me he was "the Ghost" because he was always out running and never around. Heard he is a classy and fun guy.

I think he was called "the ghost" because he liked to do his runs at night when no one would see him.

Remember the Crescent City Classic in 1984, when Mark Nenow smashed the existing road 10k world record with an amazing time of 27:22 and Kenyan Michael Musyoki and Britain Nick Rose also broke the existing World Record?

I wonder what that time would have been on a track?