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Manic Street Preachers, (from Wales) lead singer James Dean Bradfield (born 1969) was the Welsh schoolboy Steeplechase champion and top 3 at UK juniors age 19 before he gave it form injury.
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Owen Wilson or his brother ranked about 1:55.
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Joe Strummer of The Clash completed 3 marathons.
Maybe not the fastest in the field, but apparently he got lots of practice staying just out of reach of the law:
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Mick Jagger, long time runner.
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J J F wrote:
Mick Jagger, long time runner.
1990 training run
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Midnight Oil lead singer was a low 3:50ish 1500 m runner.
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I read that Axl Rose ran track, but I don't know how good he was.
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Mark Seymour (Hunters and Collectors) was a good runner (middle distance I think).
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Airborne Toxic Event frontman Mikel Jollet ran at Stanford and placed in PAC10 10k.
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The drummer for Hootie and the Blowfish was a 34 min 10k guy. Was featured in Runners World back in the late 90s.
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On the field event side, two performers with excellent track credentials are Garth Brooks (javelin) and Johnny Mathis (high jump).
brooks went to OK state I think maybe on a track scholarship.
mathis was actually very good and had a friendship / rivalry with Bill Russell, of all people! Look this one up, it’s pretty interesting.
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Clarence Clemons of the E Street Band was a mid distance runner at Maryland State University (now University of Maryland Eastern Shore) in the late 1950s through early 1960s. He went to school on a combined athletic/music scholarship. He was on the same 4X800 as future pros Art Shell and Emerson Boozer. Clemons himself had a shot at going pro, but was injured in a car accident which ended his athletic career.
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Four of the five original members of Alice Cooper were high school XC teammates.
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Rod Stewart was a good soccer player, which probably means he was a good runner as well.This post was edited 8 minutes after it was posted.180
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big man wrote:
Clarence Clemons of the E Street Band was a mid distance runner at Maryland State University (now University of Maryland Eastern Shore) in the late 1950s through early 1960s. He went to school on a combined athletic/music scholarship. He was on the same 4X800 as future pros Art Shell and Emerson Boozer. Clemons himself had a shot at going pro, but was injured in a car accident which ended his athletic career.
There was no such thing as pro back then.
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malmo wrote:
big man wrote:
Clarence Clemons of the E Street Band was a mid distance runner at Maryland State University (now University of Maryland Eastern Shore) in the late 1950s through early 1960s. He went to school on a combined athletic/music scholarship. He was on the same 4X800 as future pros Art Shell and Emerson Boozer. Clemons himself had a shot at going pro, but was injured in a car accident which ended his athletic career.
There was no such thing as pro back then.
The NFL was founded in 1920. Clemons did, in fact, come close to going pro. I believe he was planning on trying out for the Cowboys before his injury.
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malmo wrote:
There was no such thing as pro back then.
The NFL was founded in 1920. Clemons did, in fact, come close to going pro. I believe he was planning on trying out for the Cowboys before his injury.
OK. I see it now.
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Lars Ulrich, drummer for Metallica is an avid runner running up to 45 mins most days of the week.
Though he's never competed in HS or anything like that, he has supposedly done a few 5ks/10ks over the years
Looks fantastic for 61:
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