At a 5k/10k to raise money for the Purdue co-rec, Grete Waitz was publicized as coming to race, so I was ready to run hard, but she just ran easy as it turned out. But Jim Spivey also turned up. He ran the first mile with 2-3 of us, not apparently breathing, then just floated away and was out of sight before we knew it.
I'm glad someone mentioned a GR track club race with Greg Meyer. I'm too young for that but I've heard the legends. It seems like in my experiences Boaz Cheboiywo's always showing up. There's always prize money involved so these races aren't that obscure.
I also ran the EMU Open XC race last fall and Gavin Thompson and Nick Willis raced. Took 2nd and 3rd respectively. The winner, in dominant fashion, was Ryan Mckenzie. It was cool though being on the starting line and sprinting to get position and Willis just floats by on my right, casually looking around to see how crazy everyone else was going to be that day. Nate Brannen, Tim Broe, Jordan Desilets, and Boaz were there just watching.
Showed up at the Hesperia 4th of July 5k in about 8 years thinking my friends and I would dominate it. Race maybe had 150 people tops. Who should show up and win but Dathan Ritzenhein. I think was going into his first year at CU at the time. He ran 15:40 or so on a hilly course in some extreme humidity. Probably just a tempo run for the kid.
"My oldest daughter had 4th grade Field Day a few years ago, and the longest run was the "marathon", which was probably 0.4 miles long at most. I ran with them to encourage them and outkicked them at the end."
Carnivore 69 = Ted Poulos
I wasn't at this race, but a new some folks who were. The funny thig is they really didn't know how good Lincoln is.
Richard21142 wrote:
I went to a local 10K and Matt Centrowitz showed up. He was there with a local who went to Manhattan College (this was back when M. Centrowitz was running well). So, everyone was pretty excited to have him in the race. The race starts and this recent graduate from Yale (don\\\'t remember his name) took the lead and Matt goes with him. At about a mile, the course goes up an extremely steep hill. It was on this hill that Centrowitz got destroyed. He wound up in 54th place and gave bragging rights to the 53 runners that finished ahead of him.
So you\\\'re saying that Centrowitz got it handed to in the Riverdale Ramble? What year was this?
snake wrote:
I wasn't at this race, but a new some folks who were. The funny thig is they really didn't know how good Lincoln is.
http://arkansasrunner.com/misc/results2006/rftl5k06.htm
rofl that's really funny
So I'm running this half marathon and who shows up but Bill Brasky. You know Brasky runs about 7 foot 3, 500 lbs. Anyway, its 110 degrees out and Brasky lines up in the back row wearing corduroy pants, a winter parka, steel-toed work boots and one of those hats with the beer cans in it. Well the starting gun spooks him and he spends the first two minutes of the race beating the crap out of the race director at the starting line. But he still managed to catch up and lead the race at the 1 mile mark.
Little did I know he jumped off course at the 5 mile mark, ran to my house, made love to my wife, and was back on the course before second place even caught up to him.
It was a world record time but it never got recorded because he stole the timing clock and wears it to this day as a wrist watch. TO BILL BRASKY.
In some pretty large 5k in northern VA, a [good looking] girl wearing a American warmup showed up. She won by 3 mins. That was Samia Akbar, 2 years ago, when she was slower. Now shes number 9 on the Running Times US women list.
Fernado Cabada was in this race as well, didnt win though, 2 kenyans were running as well (also that ass Michael Wardian). The kenyans won in a jog, 14:20s. Cabada in 15s, a jog. Me in 16:40. But the kenyans and cabada didnt take the prize money so I got the 2nd place medal and money, pretty cool.
Nope - not Jeff Atkinson (I do know the difference between the two). It was Jeff Adkins (or Atkins - no "son" at the end). Two different people. Jeff Adkins was a sub-30 minute 10K runner in the SF Bay area back in the mid 80s - fast, but not as fast as Rios, Huff, Moreno and crew.
Ryan Mackenzie has to have one of the nicest strides going. He just ran a big 1500m PB so let's hope he has a great summer.
Western Michigander wrote:I also ran the EMU Open XC race last fall and Gavin Thompson and Nick Willis raced. Took 2nd and 3rd respectively. The winner, in dominant fashion, was Ryan Mckenzie. It was cool though being on the starting line and sprinting to get position and Willis just floats by on my right, casually looking around to see how crazy everyone else was going to be that day. Nate Brannen, Tim Broe, Jordan Desilets, and Boaz were there just watching.
Dude...I'm curious if this race was in the Johnstown, PA area. I remember making fun of a dude warming up for the Johnstown marathon in jeans. It's a hilly-beastly course and said dude proceeded to run sub 2:40.
Hoovis 2
VM wrote:
DeHaven showed up to the Belle Fourche Rodeo Days 10K last July 4th. I think there were maybe 20 runners total. He ran right around 34 flat I think. It's a tough little course, but I think he was going pretty easy. I didn't feel so bad about my 37 from a couple of years earlier after that.
Another Rod DeHaven moment:
At the 2001 Heart of the Hills 10.4 Miler, he showed up and politely dusted the field by about 7 minutes. It was kind of funny, because starts fairly flat and straight and then makes about a 180 degree turn up a very large hill. All of this was in the first mile, which was the last time anybody saw DeHaven--going up that hill--until the finish line. Me and some college buddies gave chase, but ended up toast, all placing 2-6.
Still fun to race him. He trained out in the Black Hills all the time and would show up to lot of races, much like the Belle Fourche thing. Just very random. Also, runners from the University of Colorado used to run the Mystic Mountain 8 Miler in mid-July, back in the late 80's up to about the mid-90's. They've changed the course many times, and I believe Adam Goucher still has the older and tougher course record.
chuck taylors and cut-off jean shorts...
Jerry Lawson?
There was a Jeff Adkins from WV (Penn State) who ran sub 8:50 in HS and sub 14 in college. Is this the same guy?
I was running a handicap 100 yd race in Port Jefferson LI, started 6 yds ahead of scratch runner who was hs state champ. Guess who won?
Khannouchi holds the course record for the Sallie Mae 5k in Wilkes Barre PA, I wasn't into running when he ran it, but saw the record on the now defunct race's application around 2000..
Satch black dude wrote:
I was running a handicap 100 yd race in Port Jefferson LI, started 6 yds ahead of scratch runner who was hs state champ. Guess who won?
My guess is that while in the blocks, you shouted back relentless trivia at him until he was comatose while you waltzed to an easy victory.
Your time of :11.2 (hand timed)was 6th best ever for 94 yards by a non-caucasian run at sealevel by a guy who has scored double digits in touchdowns 4 or more consecutive seasons of backyard nerf football. Only Darrell Greene has run faster.
I ran an all women's race in my hometown some years back and Marie Davenport (then McMahon)showed up. I knew she was a good runner and someone warned me not to even try to stay close to her. Well, I tried to start running after her never even was close then had to drop out of the 5K because I was so spent. What a complete idiot.
Obviously, she ran away from the field and was running pretty easy for her. The next year she showed up again but I just tried to run for second place. I tried to warn some high school girls but they made the same mistake I made the year before and went flying after her and suffered the same fate.
The New York Road Runners Club used to put on 2 mile races on the track in Van Cortlandt Park in the summer. I remember Tony Colon of Manhattan College in 1972 (a four minute miler and two-time Olympian for Puerto Rico, 72 & 76) ran an 8:40 (or maybe it was faster) 2 mile on the cinder track with nobody else close to him. He was training for the Olympics and why he ran what was a 2 mile time trial I have no idea -there were no awards and about only about 15-30 people running in the races.