Post your favorite Bob Kennedy memories here

When did he die?

A pretender. Not exactly a contender, I always considered him overrated. he benefitted from Kim MacDonald's Kenyans dragging him to fast times. He virtually never won a race....

5000 m, 10 best results (legal):

12:58.21 5 Zürich 14 Aug 1996

12:58.75 2 Stockholm 8 Jul 1996

13:02.93 2 Oslo 22 Jul 1994

13:03.37 4 Zürich 16 Aug 1995

13:03.57 6 Berlin 1 Sep 1998

13:04.14 5 Milano 7 Sep 1996

13:05.18 7 Roma 14 Jul 1998

13:05.54 5 Zürich 11 Aug 1999

13:05.93 2 Villeneuve d'Ascq 8 Jul 1994

13:06.12 2 Berlin 30 Aug 1996

Average: 13:03.374

3000 m, 10 best results (legal):

7:30.84 8 Monaco 8 Aug 1998

7:31.69 3 Bruxelles 23 Aug 1996

7:31.77 2 Oslo 4 Jul 1997

7:32.55 7 Monaco 4 Aug 1999

7:33.07 4 Monaco 16 Aug 1997

7:33.96 8 Monaco 10 Aug 1996

7:34.44 4 Paris 29 Jul 1998

7:35.33 4 Nice 18 Jul 1994

7:35.41 6 Paris 21 Jul 1999

7:35.50 7 Bruxelles 3 Sep 1999

Average: 7:33.456

Compare this with Bernard Lagat who is always a contender. No comparison I'm afraid.....

3000 m, 10 best results (legal):

7:29.00 2 Rieti 29 Aug 2010

7:32.43i 1 Birmingham 17 Feb 2007

7:32.49 3 Ostrava 27 May 2010

7:33.15 2 Saint-Denis 17 Jul 2009

7:33.51 5 Monaco 18 Aug 2000

7:34.41 1 Réthimno 21 Jul 2006

7:34.65i 1 Stockholm 21 Feb 2008

7:34.96i 1 Athína 22 Feb 2004

7:35.11 7 Berlin 22 Aug 2010

7:35.41i 1 Stuttgart 7 Feb 2009

Average: 7:33.512

5000 m, 10 best results (legal):

12:54.12 3 Oslo 4 Jun 2010

12:59.22 1 London 28 Jul 2006

12:59.29 1 Berlin 4 Sep 2005

13:03.06 2 New York NY 30 May 2009

13:11.50i 1 Boston MA 6 Feb 2010

13:12.44 9 Berlin 3 Sep 2006

13:14.32 1 Indianapolis IN 23 Jun 2006

13:14.71 1r3 Walnut CA 15 Apr 2005

13:16.29 1r1 Stanford CA 4 May 2008

13:17.33 2 Berlin 23 Aug 2009

Average: 13:08.228

yes, you are alone in your dip$hit opinion.

Jesus look at all those fast times. Tergenkamp runs one fast race a year. Solinsky will probably match that record eventually and maybe Rupp but as of now no American (other than Lagat) matches that.

And its a similar story with Croghan in the steeple.

Did you bother to notice the averages at the end of your stats? Uh, Kennedy, on average, was faster and more consistent. And considering Bob was running against doped up competition (94-99) and Lagat was/is racing during a much more stringent period of drug testing (05-10'), Kennedy is superior to Lagat.

Would you be willing to share that video somehow? I was also in that race (back in the pack also!) but would love to see it. Please email me.....

I was running at Eagle Creek Park in Indy at dusk back sometime around 04. I saw this guy running towards me with just terrible form. I thought, "what's this f-in guy's problem?" When we passed it was BK (whom I had met before and talked with on a couple of occasions b/c of mutual friends.) He was just jogging (or cooling down) but I couldn't believe how he looked compared to his form running normally.

I had seen him in town running on several other occasions, especially on the canal or Butler track (his preferred track workout venue). Once as a post-collegiate, I was doing a workout with ex-teammates on the BU track after he was finished working out. He stuck around to watch us and his presence alone helped us run about 5 secs faster on each of our 3x1600s. If I remember right the workout he did before us was 5x1000 and he was methodically consistent on his splits (within tenths on each).

I always thought the secret to his success was staying relatively injury-free through his prime. Kind of the way Solinsky is able to train without interruption. But he also used to take an entire month off of training each year, which I found unusual.