happy anniversary
happy anniversary
Who?
funny
Funny story - I accidentally ran "with" him one morning sometime during his training leading up to this. I was about to start a moderate-hard 2 mile (I guess maybe you'd call it tempo pace) on a popular out & back when Alan went by, looked like an easy run. I stepped onto the trail and it turned out that my run pace was just slightly faster than his comfortable morning jog pace. I ended up running just behind him, slowly passing, and just in front of him for almost a mile until I reached my turn-around point and headed back.
Later, I was trailside stretching after completing my strides/drills/accelerations, and he went by the other direction. He waved & looked slightly puzzled, like "Was that guy trying to race me on an easy run?" Of course I felt ridiculous.
I went on to run a 2:03 800m, and he did ok in the mile from what I hear.
Sub-8 Mile wrote:
Funny story - I accidentally ran "with" him one morning sometime during his training leading up to this. I was about to start a moderate-hard 2 mile (I guess maybe you'd call it tempo pace) on a popular out & back when Alan went by, looked like an easy run. I stepped onto the trail and it turned out that my run pace was just slightly faster than his comfortable morning jog pace. I ended up running just behind him, slowly passing, and just in front of him for almost a mile until I reached my turn-around point and headed back.
Later, I was trailside stretching after completing my strides/drills/accelerations, and he went by the other direction. He waved & looked slightly puzzled, like "Was that guy trying to race me on an easy run?" Of course I felt ridiculous.
I went on to run a 2:03 800m, and he did ok in the mile from what I hear.
Really cool story :)
Great story, put a smile on my face
You left out the funny part.
to echo the others, it is little anecdotes like these that make LR worth coming back to. Perhaps we could make this a spiraling thread about old Webb stories?
TheXCrunner wrote:
Hicham El Guerrouj wrote:
Who?
youre welcome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aTRTvo2ouo
THE GHOST OF STEVE SCOTT!!!!
H is flying ... is this at all allowed? It's called 1 Mile RUN.
Did you mean 3:46.91?
You wrote 3:47:31 (Webb's current marathon ability?)
My buddy got stage fright while trying to take a leak next to Webb at the 2001 Penn Relays. For those that don’t know the stadium doesn’t have urinals, but large tub-like apparatuses into which you piss. Needless to say, he was quite intimidated.
Most overrated run by most overrated runner in US history.
Never could win anything. Race to win.
Happy anniversary to the "ghost of Steve Scott"!
philly28 wrote:
My buddy got stage fright while trying to take a leak next to Webb at the 2001 Penn Relays. For those that don’t know the stadium doesn’t have urinals, but large tub-like apparatuses into which you piss. Needless to say, he was quite intimidated.
This is actually a funnier story.
“Hold on, have to pee.”
“Dude, didn’t you just go?”
“I tried, but ALAN WEBB was there!”
My Alan Webb story:
I was at a winter track meet at Virginia Tech in maybe 2011 or 2012. This was somewhere around the time when Alan was still trying to make some comebacks, but dropping some awfully slow times for his ability. I had no idea he was going to be there, but saw him right when I was finishing my warm-up. I don't know why, but as I passed close to him while entering the indoor track facility he just glared at me like I had said something rude. Not sure what it was all about and I could totally have misread the look on his face, but that was the impression I got and remember to this day.
He ended up DNFing the 800. I don't remember what I ran but it wasn't very good. That is the only time I ever saw him in person. It was pretty strange.
That was a 3:45 if yellow singlet guy didn't make him run wide so much. If he was supposed to be a pacemaker, he was useless.
Did he get the car parked on the infield as a record bonus? More records would get broken that way. Put a prize by the second turn as motivation.