Out of HS John ran 4:10 & 8:57, he had great range, later on he ran 8:35.60-SC, 13:48.48, 28:27.4, 2:10:51 & made the marathon squad in 1984. Rumors of his wild ways I've heard but nothing of his training that still keep him in the masters running scene. How did he train?
i always remember Tuttle running for Kangaroo, back in the day. I remember watching him race in Lawrence KS back in 1983, when Lawrence actually had a top flight road race that even had some prize money.
I can speak from personal experience of those wild ways!
Tuttle is still a wild man at times.
He runs about 60-65 miles a week these days. races alot.
He is a good dude, twisted, talented, but still a good guy.
"Wild Ways", it was more like rampant, barbaric and actually just plain dam fun.... A topic on King Tut stories could set a record for threads if it gets going. I haven't talked w/ king tut for about one year and the topic never came up when we did talk. So I'm don't know what his recent training program involves. But I'll e-mail someone who knows and he'll get back to you. Maybe the king himself will show. I know he's runner great for an old fart and he'd be #1 on Auburn X-C team right now!!! Which, I'm sad to say isn't much. War Eagle to you--->
Opps, I forgot to take off the above link. I posted it on another thread for those guys on the "hottest girls in the NCAA" post, who have difficulty with some of there hottest picks.
Dam Now its off!
/Tuttle used to be famous for eating glass.
Tuttle is a great guy. He trains hard and also enjoys life to its fullest. When I talked to John 2 years ago he did a lot of tempo running in his distance work. He also was training with a high school kid who was pretty good. He has been getting hurt latly but I think its age and racing for 25 years. I know teaching school takes a lot of time so I am sure his training has been cut down since the early 90's.
Touch yourself Big John.
Hey WAR 2E I know you have some wild stories from the day.
I know John pretty well from SE races where he steals my prize money! Still wild, still crazy, still fast sometimes. When racing every weekend, he does about 8 200s midweek, letting the races serve for workouts. Achilles troubles this past year, but he's resurfacing. Watch your glasses.
HI OVC, NO ONE WOULD BELIEVE THEM AND YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN. YOU HAVE 1ST HAND KNOWLEDGE TOO! LIKE NEW ORLEANS!!! WHY WOULD YOU TWO ALWAYS CALL ME AT 3AM? NEXT TIME LET ME KNOW WHEN YOU TWO GET TOGETHER AND I'LL FLY DOWN FOR THE AFTER THE RACE PARTY FEST. QUESTION? DIDN'T KING TUT'S WIFE FORBID HIM FROM GOING TO THE SAME RACES THAT YOU GO TOO? WHAT KIND OF TROUBLE DID YOU TWO GET INTO THIS TIME? OH WHATS UP W/ THAT D.C THING? E-MAIL ME...
war eagle...
stories there are more than you know. i think you spent a year with him, i spent 5. absolutley the most talented american guy of his time. more range than any man had a right to own.
nuts though. could not always handle his drink. best fighter ever under 150 lbs. and a damn loyal friend.
not a very loyal plainsman are you?
OH YES I AM! I just got recently (actually several weeks ago)pissed about something and things got out of hand and said but only to pull someone else out of the wood work One dam long story. If you are I who I think you are, How have you been!!! I ran into a friend of yours up in Oron, "Towey". She has your e-mail address and said if I drop her a line, she'll pass it along. Give me a yes or no on this post if your____. War eagle to you....
Could not always handle his drink was right. I was near when he got toasted after a race in the Big Apple in the late 80s. The airplane ride home was, uh, interesting.
DC thing as in Betty Blank
Is Betty Blank the older woman that we see him with at DC Races (and Boilermaker too, I think). What's up with that?
Always wondered why he was hanging in DC so much - you guys seem to know him, maybe you can offer an explanation?
His wife is cool. John has fun but he knows when its time to stop. Like when he sings I lost that loven feeling. You know War E2 John will stick up for you and whoever he is hanging with. Ask Nash down in Huntsville 8 years ago when Earl Owens almost got his ass kicked because he was acting like an ass in the race. Owens owes tuttle his life because Nash would have killed him.
Cheers my brother
I have no idea how she ended up in this thread about John Tuttle, but I knew Betty Blank twenty years ago, when I lived in the D.C. area. A beautiful, willowy, delightfully goofy blonde. A pretty good runner, too. What's she up to these days?
Ask Tuttle
That assumption is wrong and it should stop here before a good man gets hurt!!! War Eagle to you...