NAME - ALL THE FAMOUS, ELITE, TOP TIER RUNNERS YOU HAVE RACED AGAINST, RUN WITH, OR MET...

Paavo Nurmi, Pre, Bekele

i've met (some very briefly) gary reed, kevin sully, nate brannen, kara goucher, galen rupp and alberto salazar

Khannouchi before Chicago, and Jorge Torres thru the Forest Preserve Woods in the Northern suburbs.

I first met Bill Bowerman at the 1984 Olympic Trials. He was sitting way up in the grandstands of the Memorial Coliseum all by himself. We chatted for a while.

A few years later (early 90s?) I met him at a Booster meeting where he was the featured speaker because he was donating to a local HS track construction project. He signed a book for me.

A few years later again, I was able to talk with him about donating to our track construction project. We had some lengthy rambling conversations about tracks, T&F in the USA, the need for more dual meets, and all kinds of topics. He eventually donated $5000 for our project.

Later that fall, I was able to go to his house with my state competing XC team. My assistant coach was an athlete of his back in the 60s. Despite his failing health, he was extremely cogent when discussing the past, but had a hard time recalling my name or any of his guests. It was kind of surreal as he gave us a tour of his house and workshop. We sat out on his patio and drank lemonade with his wife. I still have the photo of Bill and my team overlooking the McKenzie River framed on my wall.

That's awesome. Woodruff's gold medal is hanging on the wall on the ground floor of Hillman Library at the University of Pittsburgh. I wonder how many people have walked past it and thought nothing of it.

Strange that there aren't some really long lists...

Attend a big meet or a usatf summit, run in a high performance meet, race 5k 8k road champs etc, run the boilermaker.... whatever it may be your list of raced against and met should be hundreds

Here we go... Most of them met at different meets and I got pics with all of them.... I was a doping escort for two national championships so that is how I met them.

Lynn Jennings (Did a cooldown with her after the 10k)

Pat Porter @ Atlanta trials

Suzy Hamilton @97 USATF meet in Indy

Steve Holman @97 USATF meet in Indy

Marc Croghan @97 USATF meet in Indy

Robert Gary (did a cooldown with him and Marc Davis)

Marc Davis @ 99 USATF meet in Eugene

Bob Kennedy @97 USATF meet in Indy

Todd Williams @97 USATF meet in Indy

Alan Culpepper @97 USATF meet in Indy and 99 in Eugene

Shayne Culpepper

Charles Austin @97 USATF meet in Indy

Butch Reynolds @97 USATF meet in Indy

Ryan Shay at 2004 Olympic Trials in Birmingham

Amy Acuff @ 99 USATF meet in Eugene

Adam Goucher @99 USATF in Eugene

Grant Robison (have run with him a couple of times)

Paul McMullen @ Hillsdale last chance meet

Maurice Greene @ 99 USATF in Eugene

Stacy Dragila @97 USATF meet in Indy

John Godina @97 USATF meet in Indy

I have talked with Brian Diemer on several occasions.

Thats my list.

Teddy Mitchell.....

The only ones I can list are

andy vernon (you fellow brits know who he is) in UK University (BUSA) XC 08, in the 08/09 Hampshire XC league and in the inofficial BUSA XC 2009

steph twell (same meet, not same race, so i guess it technically doesn't count)

Tom Raunig

He is my education professor.

runtime wrote:

I'll follow Kopriva's long list with a short one:

Roger Bannister

I spent time with him back in the 70s over the course of a few days -- talking, eating, etc.

i call b.s.

Wow you listed quite a few!

My top 20:

1. Suleiman Nyumbui

2. Henry Rono

3. Peter Koech

4. Samson Kimombwa

5. Alberto Salazar

6. Bill Rodgers

7. Rudy Chapa

8. Doug Padilla

9. Bill McChesney

1o. Craig Virgin

11. Gabriel Kamau

12. Mike Musyoki

13. Thom Hunt

14. Steve Scott

15. Steve Lacey

16. Adrian Royle

17. Mark Nenow

18. Paul Cummings

19. James Hill

20. James Spivey

Fond memories of meeting these great runners and racing them!

Steve

Raced against Priscilla Lopes-Schleip (then known as Priscilla Lopes) in March 2001 at the National Scholastic Indoor Championships in the 60m hurdles at the NY Armory. I don't know why that meet allowed Canadians to run in it (with a siglet saying CANADA on it) at a US High School National Meet, but whatever, she kicked all of our butts. I was in the same preliminary heat as her, and she ended up winning the event overall. I didn't realize I was racing against her until I saw a photo my mom took of me as I crossed the finish line, with Priscilla 6 meters ahead of me... yeah, she was quick.

She also doubled in the 60m dash. I believe she won the 60m dash in 2000 at the NSIC.

I remember seeing her in the trials of the 60m dash. She was in lane 1, and as I got into her blocks, I noticed how chisled she was all along her legs.

Lindsey Scherf (currently at Oregon as a grad student) was my old teammate in college. Never raced against/with her, but we were good friends.

Circa 1972 Learned that I didn't have the engine to go to Montreal.

Training Partners

Jack Bachelor

Barry Brown

Dick Berkley

Frank Shorter

Craig Smith

John Parker

Steve Scott

John Treacy

Bill Rogers

Frank Shorter

Fred Schoeffler (do the research!)

Carl Lewis

Johnny Gray

Jeff West

David Mack

Sam Bair, Sr.

Rob DeCastella

Dwayne Evans

Herman Frazier

Ed Eyestone

Marc Davis

Doug Padilla

Mark Curp

Don Janicki

David Barney

Tom Ansberry

Mike Stahr

Tom Hunt

Ed Mendoza

Eddy

Jon Sinclair

Joe Falcon

Ray Wicksell

Dieter Baumann

Samson Kimbombwa

Art Boileau

Ken Martin

Steve Plascencia

Todd Williams

Bob Kennedy

Trina Leopold Painter

Lisa Larsen Weidenbach

Rich Kenah

Hugh Jones

Yobes Ondiecki

Lisa Martin

(Probably an even longer list of almost elite....)

I've been around for a very long time.

I forgot Bannister!

I feel dirty for making this list. I'm not a big fan of name-dropping, despite what I just did.

Ran Against:

Dan Browne, Nate Jenkins, Uli Steidl, Trevor Dunbar (don't know if he counts)

Met:

Gerry Lindgren, Nick Symmonds

Ran with Ian Dobson, and hung out/ran with Chris Derrick and a lot of the Stanford team this summer.

On a side note, at the Stanford Invitational, there was a guy walking around with a sign that said "My room mate is Chris Derrick"

kenny klotz

colton tullydoyle

david morgan

tyler smith

joshua smurro

domonic england

tyler stanley

Nguyen something

sarah pridgett

dexter morgan

elaine bennet

thereis definately more but i have to stop my carplas are hurting