Who is a "Streets Will Never Forget" runner?

Craig Mottram in 2005-2006. Remember that guy? I assume he’s been brought up once but there’s too many posts now

POD, POY

From the same year (2005), Sarah Bowman and Brianna Felnagle finished 1-2 at Nike Outdoor Nationals in the mile.

Franklyn Sanchez

Obea Moore

And a seemingly random one: Peter Hollatz, Brown track/xc class of 2001. Pretty much a nobody coming into his senior year, ran several 3:41-3:42 1500s in an era when only total studs ran that fast, and in probably the race of his life handed off in the lead in the 1200 leg of the DMR at Penn Relays, ahead of Don Sage among many other far bigger names. Nowhere to be found in the record books. No big championship wins. But an epic season for a senior who nobody had heard of before and who hung them up and moved on the day his senior season ended.

I misremembered the times, 3:45s, not 3:42s. Still much studlier in 2001 than it sounds today, especially for a guy who nobody noticed until that year. And that leadoff leg at Penn Relays was epic.

A year ago I would have said Jimmy Gressier, that one Frenchman with a great smile who is always somehow on the line at global championships alongside the actual contenders. But now he has stamped his name firmer in history. Still, only time will tell how he will be remembered.

Maybe I'm thinking of someone else, but wasn't Kamworor the one who had an accident while running on the roads in Kenya? From memory he got injured pretty bad, and this was right after he won NYC marathon

Brodey Hasty is such a good pick. That 14:32 seemed insane to me back then

Lukas Verzbicas

Anthony Famiglietti.

A little off topic:

When one thinks of Lindgren, they think of his distance running, i.e. 8:40 indoor two mile and 13:44 5000m. But he also just missed out on holding the HS mile record as well. Lindgren ran a 4:01.5 mile, just two months after Ryun ran his 3:59 mile record. The existing HS record at the time (1964) was 4:03.5 by Tom Sullivan set in 1961.

From the NY/NJ area: Mike Stahr, John Trautman, Brad Hudson, John Carlotti.

Surprised you didn’t mention Dartmouth Tom McCardle.

Yeah, that's right. At that point, there was some talk he was Kipchoge's heir apparent. Who knows how much that accident took out of him.

Special mention to legends who line out at Diamond Leagues in their club vests

They're a throwback to an almost forgotten time of blue collar hard men.

I'll go with Seán Tobin. The Irish Hammer of Ole Miss Pacing a DL 1500m in Rome in his Clomel AC singlet.

Samual Philstrom the young buck before he got a contract winning continental tour gold in his red and white club strip battling it out with Cathal Doyle in a clonliffe vest.

Similar

Eric Holt with empire elite certainly qualifies.

The pro vests just aren't as cool no matter how hard they try.

https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=8249086

Ben Saarel. One of the first high school/college guys I saw rojo hype up since I started posting on Letsrun.

Zach MF Panning

Agree. Ben True was a really good less than ideal conditions runner. I know he was always looking to break 13 in the 5000, it's a shame he just fell short. While I am not a huge believer that today's spikes help that much, they could have helped enough to get his PR under 13.

Also, it's a shame XC isn't an Olympic sport because Garrett Heath might have a medal if that was the case.