I have honestly never heard of this guy, and then I read that he smoked a 13:16. Please tell me everything about Andy Bumbalough!
I have honestly never heard of this guy, and then I read that he smoked a 13:16. Please tell me everything about Andy Bumbalough!
He's from Tennessee, so he only trains on Sundays
Better than Alan Webb, and about the same age as Jenny Simpson:
"Andy Bumbalough 14:32 takes 11 seconds off Alan Webb's course record; Jenny Barringer wins second straight South regional"
Wheating fanatic wrote:
I have honestly never heard of this guy, and then I read that he smoked a 13:16. Please tell me everything about Andrew Bumbalough!
Lost to Doogie Howser at Nationals.
Andy Wheating got married. Took the lady's last name.
It was on facebook earlier this week, don't you remember?
my first recollection wrote:
Lost to Doogie Howser at Nationals.
LOL. I'd never made that connection, but you're right.
If you've never heard of this guy, you haven't been following running very closely the last 6 years or so. The guy outkicked Shadrack Kiptoo at Arcadia his junior year of HS to win in 8:4x (8:49?), then was the favorite to win FLN the next fall and ended up second right behind Cormier. Put up some decent times in college but was never really a contender for a title, though he did split 3:56 in a DMR one year. Made the USA XC team a few weeks ago.
Really, you've never heard of this guy?
The 8:49 that he won Arcadia with was the #5 junior year performance of all time. He was hurt his senior year and couldn't go to Arcadia so he soloed an 8:53 on his own track at their regional meet, supposedly lapping the entire field. Got second at Foot Locker his senior year.
Mentioned above was his 3:56 DMR split at Fayetteville a few years ago, the fastest split in the race that night at NCAAs.
Got 8th(?) at NCAA Cross as a senior. College PR was 13:30. Would've run faster last year as a senior at Georgetown but got mono in the winter and was down for a while. Despite mono, still managed to get 3rd at NCAAs and USAs in the 5.
All this on about 65 or so miles per week for his whole career so far. He's doing around 100 now. Get ready for some big things.
Like the guy above said, you should have been paying attention to running for the past six years.
He was second at ncaa 3k indoor, top 10 in ncaa xc, ran 3:38/3:58i + ran fastest split at ncaa dmr--had some injuries jr/sr year that kept him from an ncaa title-may not get as much prss as someone like derrick, e.g., but i would think most people who follow ncaa track certainly knpw who he is.
This is from 2009, but pretty insightful:
It was probably 8:46 he ran at arcadia because that is his pr i had just always thought he ran it his senior year. Had no clue he missed out on his last go around. Also ran 405.. pretty solid i guess. Capped off his college career with a 3rd place finish at nats in the 5k (also the top American finisher!!!)
Really? You have never heard of this guy???
Hmm, well I.m thinking the OP is referring to the fact that the press release said Andy Bumbalough instead of Andrew...
Either way, i like to see a thread devoted to bumbi
Pretty sure it was an 8:48/49 2 mile at arcadia and that 8:46 you see is the 3200 conversion.
Also relevant: he currently trains under Jerry Schumacher, along with Solinsky, Tegenkamp, Bairu, and I think Tim Nelson (remember him? 27:31 in the same race where Solinsky ran his AR).
Andy?
I thought he was just Bumbi.
Bumbi is ready for a sub-27:30
If he's from Tennessee, then Sunday would be the one day he wouldn't train. Church & NASCAR. (not much of a difference really..)
grimatongueworm wrote:
If he's from Tennessee, then Sunday would be the one day he wouldn't train. Church & NASCAR. (not much of a difference really..)
Lol! That is CLEVER
If you ran at FLS in the past 10 years, then you've heard of Bumbi. He crushed me!
He is Matt Sonnenfeldt's idol