Lance Armstrong
Lance Armstrong
My recollection is that Bush Sr. was a very good 400 runner while at Yale.
Both Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain were very good high jumpers while in college.
Bruce Dern was one of the first people to run around Lake Tahoe - 72 miles.
Baron Sebastian Coe
I hear he ran a couple 800 meter dashes before his time in Parliament.
Coach P wrote:
George W. Bush ran a ~2:50 marathon
Al Gore ~4:00 marathon
I believe the timers were from Florida.
Rip Hamilton of the Pistons used to own up his HS conference in the mile. Still does tempo runs in addition to basketball practice.
singer Nick Drake was a really good 100m runner
I have ran a 1:25:00 half marathon. Will be famous soon enough, bitches.
Also, your site looks like it is vulnerable to a serious SQL injection attack. Do not be famous for that.
Dennis Weaver - Placed 6th in the 1948 Olympic Trials in the Decathlon.
Prefontaine
Just read somewhere Eric Segal, "Love Story," author ran a sub 3 hour Boston and ran it from 1955 to 1977.
Nice mention about Erich Segal. His best was 2:57 (1964). Was a color commentator for ABCs distance running coverage of the 1972 Olympics. Nice summary of his running history here: http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=3384072
Nice, the once a year thread on famous people who ran.
http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?board=1&id=2395065&thread=2394821
http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?board=1&id=1754753&thread=1752135
Wolfgang Ketterle - Nobel Prize in Physics - 2:50 Marathon
http://www.runnersworld.com/article/0,7120,s6-243-410--13337-0,00.html
latently homosexual teenager wrote:
Nice, the once a year thread on famous people who ran.
http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?board=1&id=2395065&thread=2394821http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?board=1&id=1754753&thread=1752135
Once a year? I seem to remember the last one was only like 2 or 3 weeks ago. Maybe it was an older one that was bumped?
Bruce Springstein
Forrest Gump
Michael Landon was a good Javelin thrower
Morrissey was a good distance runner
what about chicks??
Emilio Estevez ran x-country and the hurdles in track.
Jakob Ingebrigtsen has a 1989 Ferrari 348 GTB and he's just put in paperwork to upgrade it
Strava thinks the London Marathon times improved 12 minutes last year thanks to supershoes
Is there a rule against attaching a helium balloon to yourself while running a road race?
Clayton Murphy is giving some great insight into his training.
NAU women have no excuse - they should win it all at 2024 NCAA XC
Mark Coogan says that if you could only do 3 workouts as a 1500m runner you should do these
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