Not necessarily clebrities, just well-known. Here is a nugget I found just now, from the GBTC newsletter of 1987:
Sebastian Junger
30:54
16th 6.2M Pepsi Free-Nashua Trust, Nashua, N'H'
He may have run faster- that is a random result.
Makes Lance look weak. Can anyone else top this?
I have no idea who that guy is.
Author of the best-seller "The Perfect Storm" (was a major film release afew years back).
Found this too:
GBTC Club Records:
5-MI 23:31 Sebastian Junger (88 tellfleet)
(=30:00 10K)
The guy was for real.
Nolan Shaheed.
World Record holder for M50 mile (4:27.9) and M50 800m (1:58.65)
http://www.world-masters-athletics.org/records_output/rec_list_outdoor_m.php
Jazz trumpeter to the stars (Count Basie, Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross):
Bob Hayes. Famous for winning a Superbowl ring. Wasn't a bad runner, either, though I don't think he could get anywhere near 4:28 for 1500m.
Jim Ryun
Sebastian Coe
Very fast runners, yet they are also well-known politicians.
However, I don't think their political careers would have been successful had they not already been famous for their running accomplishments.
I believe Mr. Junger also ran a 2:20 marathon.
This thread is going to degrade into a which celebrities did track thing . . . .
It's OJ. Need I explain?
John Turner, 17th PrimeMinister of Canada, Rhodes scholar. 10 flat for 100yards
Peter Garrett
Lead singer for Midnight Oil and a member of the Australian Parliment. Also ran close to, if not a, 4:00 mile.
Gabe Jennings...the running thing and then getting attacked by monkeys in Brazil or wherever it was. If that doesn't suit him to a tee, I don't know what does. Seriously, if there had been a poll question before this happened about which famous runner would be most likely to get attacked by monkeys, it would have been Gabe.
fmr wrote:
Peter Garrett
Lead singer for Midnight Oil and a member of the Australian Parliment. Also ran close to, if not a, 4:00 mile.
False, not even close.
Midnight idiots wrote:
fmr wrote:Peter Garrett
Lead singer for Midnight Oil and a member of the Australian Parliment. Also ran close to, if not a, 4:00 mile.
False, not even close.
So what was his best time. I remember reading something to the effect of him running a 4:0x mile from a magazine article while I was in high school.
Dr. Delano Meriweather, noted hematologist, ran 9.0 for 100 yards in early 1970s.
John Chapman aka Johnny Appleseed.
More of an ultra guy, he was known to have covered many miles in a short amount of time.
Superman, he has unofficially broken every world record, but is better know for saving the planet.
Garret ran 4:01. Midnight oil was awesome. What about Rexing?
Carl Lewis and his long jumping
Willie Gault. Apparently, he's a regular on Nickelodeon now.
Alice Cooper...rock star....4:30 miler in high school