Facteezy wrote:I got to know Marcus O'Sullivan's daughter fairly well my freshman year and talked to him a couple times. He's probably the most visible of all the Villanova coaches on campus.
I ran a workout with Marcus's son, just the two of us, while Marcus was watching/coaching. I was going to do the workout alone, but he happened to be there, so we ran it together. Pretty good dude, I think he was about a 4:25 HS miler at the time. Marcus is a good guy too; I've seen him around several times and spoken to him a few.
I saw Nick Symmonds doing a run the day before Penn Relays while I was stretching before some repeat miles. I called out to him, asked him what he was running (while I kept stretching and he kept running). I started my first mile very shortly after that, and blew by him (I ran something like 5:25; he was probably running 7:00 pace or slower). I waved at him on one of my recovery jogs, said good luck at Penn, he said thanks. Not much interaction, but it's pretty cool to blow by Nick Symmonds (though he would crush me in any race under 5K, and possibly longer than that too). I wasn't in great shape at the time, so it was reassuring to know that at least my tempo pace is faster than his easy pace.