Who is the most famous runner you ever worked out with?

Mark Curp. He's my brother-in-law so I've run with him alot since our college days back in the early 1980's. Beat him 1 time in a workout. Minor detail, he was coming off an injury.

Okay, I'll bite:

Jim Ryun (repeat 400s)

Gerry Lindgren (repeat 400's)

Bill Rodgers (Run)

Scott Daggatt (tempo)

Paul Geis (tempo)

Bill Dellinger (jog, 1 hour race for distance)

Matt Centrowitz (numerous)

Marty Liquori (jog)

Frank Shorter (jog)

Steve Scott (6 mile run)

Doris Brown Heritage (jog)

Olga Connelly (jog)

Tom McChesney (numerous)

Steve McChesney (numerous)

Bill McChesney (sunday long run)

Don Clary (numerous)

Conrad Suhr (numerous)

Mike Boit (Warm up, two races)

Mark Enyart(sp) 1 training session)

Brian Russell (numerous)

Craig Virgin (jog, numerous)

Alberto Salazar (numerous)

Rudy Chapa (numerous)

Ken Martin "

Art Boileau "

Prefontaine (post race walk ;-)

And a bunch of Soviets, Finns, Swedes, Danes,

who's names I forget.

I am sure there are more I am forgetting.

A Duck wrote:

And a bunch of Soviets, Finns, Swedes, Danes,

who's names I forget..

whose.

Oregon English teacher wrote:

A Duck wrote:

And a bunch of Soviets, Finns, Swedes, Danes,

who's names I forget..

whose.

Lol, thanks it is late, and I am multi-tasking packing for a trip, good catch.

PS, F. Scott Fitzgerald could not spell. ;-)

BFrank wrote:

Mark Curp. He's my brother-in-law so I've run with him alot since our college days back in the early 1980's. Beat him 1 time in a workout. Minor detail, he was coming off an injury.

That's cool. Big ups!

I bought running shoes from Peter Rono at the New Balance store in Hasbrouck Heights, NJ... does that count?

Jersey Strong wrote:

I bought running shoes from Peter Rono at the New Balance store in Hasbrouck Heights, NJ... does that count?

Honorable mention!

I ran with Bob Kempainen in college (2:08 at Boston), and much later with Gary Muhrcke, winner of the fist NYC Marathon.

I ran for UTEP in the mid 90's and got to workout with: Wilson Wiagwa, Gidamis Shahanga, Michael Mysiokui, and Thomas Osano.

Henry Rono came down from Albuquerque to give a clinic for us and my coach was Suliemen Nyambui.

Jeff Atkinson, Matt Giusto, Aaron Ramirez, Ken Martin and anyone else who stopped by the Training Manor Group in the late 1980s early 1990s.

Ran with Steve Ovett while in Bermuda for multi-race event weekend.

I worked out with Peter Snell at Angell Field in 1963. We did interval 20 x 220's with the last one being in 23 sec. We pretty much stayed together until the last 75yds.

Peter Snell at Angell Field, Stanford. We ran 20 x 220's from 28 to last one in 23. I stayed up with him until 75 yards on the last one.

As a young college post grad, went up to Boston to run and got to do a workout with Jack Fultz prior to the marathon. He was very gracious. Later as a 30 something trying to get back in shape in Boulder, shared the CU track with Loraine Miller for a set of 10 200's...she was wicked fast. Prior to her great run in Barcelona. A fan!

In the day...Paul Geis, Bill Clark, Hal Higdon, Joe Henderson, Bob Anderson ( founder of Runners World ).

I once ran an interval workout with U.S. Senator Alan Cranston.

I was hanging around Stanford's Angell Field, back when it was a cinder track used mostly by P.E. classes, and there was Cranston, warming up in racing flats and a sweatsuit. I knew that he had run on a national championship 4x400 Relay team back when he was a Stanford undergrad, and that he was more recently the perennial also-ran to Stanford Head Coach Payton Jordan in various indoor sprint competitions: A pretty damn good runner for age 58. So I went up and introduced myself as a Stanford varsity track guy, and he immediately seized the opportunity: "Would you take me through my workout today? I want to run four 220s in about 30 seconds, with an easy 220 jog between each. Can you do that with me?"

Of course I could. We proceeded to run 4x220s, hitting them right on the nose at 30 seconds -- I'd always had a good sense of pace. At the end of it he thanked me and said, "Next time you're in Washington drop by my office. You can be my Coach." Ever the Pol, right? I was very saddened when Cranston, who I thought of as a good guy, was taken down in the Keating Savings & Loan scandal...

since the subject is most famous it has to be....

Dean Karnazes!

Seriously my only elbow rubbing was the ability to work a couple times with John Trautmann (Fish) a couple times when he was home in the summer from Georgetown.

used to have a guy who ran in the Marathon OT's when I was a frosh in HS that would let me hang on for as long as I could as he ran 1.5 mile loops around the ponds in Monroe....went from 18 to 16 over the course of a few months by just learning that that pain never got any better or worse

Augustine Choge.

Early one morning perhaps 7am, staying at a hotel up El Camino from Stanford, at age 70 as I recall, I ran down to the Stanford track and found what seemed to me to be an oversized bronzed crew cut runner, perhaps a quarter miler was my guess, striding round the track at what seemed to me to be around 60 second pace. I began running in his wake, amazed at his size and speed, his shoulders and pace, but quickly fell behind.

Assuming he would stop soon, I set off on an hour or so tempo run, hoping to cover around 30 laps. With me staying in the second lane, the mysterious early morning monster passed me every three minutes or so for the entire hour (sorry, if I don't have the times just right) and he never stopped. I gave up and left. Checking photos I soon discovered he was Chris Solinsky. Shortly afterward he ran his 26:59.

As for real workouts, the most famous was Spike Paranya, the father of Kurt who missed the Olympics by a step or two. Spike was IC4A mile champ and won the half and long jump at the Mass High School State meet.

Cooled down with Nate Brannen after pacing him in a mile. Cool guy. Said Webb was a d bag