Rod Stewart
Rod Stewart
Road.Kill wrote:
Rod Stewart
HA! Do you mean Desmond O'Conner?
you youngn's wil have to look that up I'm sure
ryan foreman wrote:
Hendrix successfully completing training for the 101st suggests he could have run a good 5000M time compared to his fellow colleagues.
But it probably is Mick Jagger. In those 1981 shows he was running a hell of a lot on the huge sprawling stage they had. I don't think any other musician comes even remotely close to the distance Jagger was running in those shows. I think there is video of Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts rolling their eyes at it.
Jagger used to run 40mpw with his body guards.
He approached training for a tour to be like Ali training for a boxing match.
my vote goes to Jagger.
i have never heard of Nolan shaheed, outside of Runners World...
even if you hate Rock n Roll, everybody's heard of Jagger..
and if he trained as hard as Nolan shaheed Jagger would run even faster than he already has....which is pretty fast! he used to do 40 miles a week....and Jagger was a HS XC runner in England
Rita MacNeil
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Iggy Pop?
rick ross
Peter Garrett. Broke 4 for the 1,500 despite being 6'4"
Knower of Things wrote:
Peter Garrett. Broke 4 for the 1,500 despite being 6'4"
This is probably the correct answer. He was an elite high school 1500 runner. Don't know what his training was like when he was singing with Midnight Oil though.
I think Jagger does better than 19 minutes in 1981. He really was in great shape in the 1970s though the early 80s and was still relatively young.
Anyone subscribe to Neflix? If you do, check out Saturday Night live the 1970s. The first show of 1978 shows the Rolling Stones. Jagger is in obvious great shape. Extremely low body fat, chiseled. In hindsight he was probably doing the comprehensive workouts that Galen Rupp does today even more than the elite distance runners of the 1970s.
A biography I read stated that before the 1981 tour at 37 years old at 5-9 he weighed 127 and had a 27 inch waist.
Running 40-50 miles a week at 7:00 pace won't get you under 17:00 for a 5000 but he was capable of that if he cared about that.
He was definitely the fittest famous musician of all time at that point.
Flea
i am curious wrote:
Flea
Is he still running in Vibrams?
No longer around but Joe Strummer of the clash did around 3:30 for the marathon
Allan 'Boff' Whalley not quite famous but his band Chmbawamba had a hit with I get knocked down:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-zK1S5Dws
He a good standard fell runner. I would put him at sub 16 for 5km. Chucked water over our former deputy prime minister as well which gives him extra marks
I have run 15:19 on the road and had a record out anybody going to clubs in the U.K. 10 years ago would know.
No way really? Tried Googling it but nothing came up - is this true or are you just having a laugh?
name withheld wrote:
I have run 15:19 on the road and had a record out anybody going to clubs in the U.K. 10 years ago would know.
C'mon give us a tiny hint! That's a great time.
No, O'Conner is not Rod Stewart, and those people were morons for thinking so. The real Rod Stewart was quite a talented soccer player as a young man and was doubtless in excellent condition. I remember reading years ago that he continued to run throughout much of his time as a performer. He currently had a top-notch soccer field built on his own property for family pick-up games.
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Mark Seymour from the famous Aussie band Hunters and Collectors was a bloody quick 5k runner back in the 80s. Pretty sure he was in the 15s for 5k despite being in a top 10 rock n roll out fit.