Captain of Moss wrote:
What ever happen to 3:51 miler Tim Hacker? I also vaguely remember Chuck Aragon(?)
Hacker was a 3:35 1500 runner in college and a NCAA champ in Cross. He had strong legs and was lethal in the last 100. Bob Kennedy knows this when Hacker beat him at one of the last TAC cross Country championships. He had countless imjuries in college and after. I don't think he ever ran over 6 months without a huge break due to all injuries and surgeries.
He was built for power but had natutural endurance. Without the injuries he would have been a 3:32-13:10 guy but his best environment was cross country. He could hold on and power at the end under any conditions. Never ran faster than 1:49 for 800 or 50 for a quarter but I ran a 6 mile fartlek workout once where he finished on snow and ice with layers and pants and because of his feet always trained in the heaviest Nike trainers and went 55.
He is a professor in Excercise Physiology now, I believe at UW.