I'm wondering if there is a group that meets for runs or anything in Flagstaff. i hear of lots of elites running there but don't know who I should get in touch with there to meet for runs. I've run 13:56 in the 5k and will be staying with a cousin in Flagstaff for 6 weeks. Anyone know who I should eb in touch with?
Mike Friedberg (a Colorado alum and featured in Running With the Buffaloes by Chris Lear) opened a running store in Tuscon recently. I do not know the name of it but someone there should be able to help you out. He has a 10,000-meter PR of 28:50 and would be worth getting ahold of. Great guy too.
Freidburg works at the running store in Flagstaff called "A Runner's High." I think he actually manages it. It's at the corner of Cherry and Humphrey's. He does some running with Jared Scott, Mike Smith, Roger Cahill, and Chris Gomes who all ran at the USATF Club CC Nats.
I believe Ryan Shay is in town too. I would also recommend getting in touch with the NAU Center for High Altitude Training and they could probably hook you up with some people to run with of your caliber. (http://www.hastc.nau.edu/)
Do you know the name of Friedberg's store? I'm in Tucson and that would be sweet! Thanks
I hear Cahill is gay.
waldo wrote:
Do you know the name of Friedberg's store? I'm in Tucson and that would be sweet! Thanks
Wallin, dude the next post says the store is in FLAGSTAFF and called "Runners High" so get your ass to flagstaff and do some real runnin ;)
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seeing as how no new running shops have opened in Tucson in the last year or so, I am going to say the second poster is probably wrong.
There are a ton of people training in Flagstaff right now - quite a few which have run at or faster than 13:56. I think NAU has at least 1 or 2 that can run about that fast.
Contact the center for high altitude training at NAU. At the moment there are 4 Team USA Minnesota runners, 3 others from Eugene (Oregon Track CLub), plus Fasil, Shay, Gilmore, and those mentioned in the Mike Friedberg info (whose running store is in Flagstaff, not Tucson). I think Abdi arrives this week and a few good Native Americans -- Kyle Goklish, Brandon Leslie, Alvina Begay. Sorry I leave tonight for Disney marathon, but contact sean.anthony@nau.edu I'll be back Jan 10. (Terrible weather here, however, only up to 45 or 50 degrees and sun shines only in the daytime)
Thank you!