used to run at an elite/sub-elite level? If not that, at least respectable marks?
used to run at an elite/sub-elite level? If not that, at least respectable marks?
Running is a sport for social rejects. Musicians & actors / actresses are too socially mobile to become runners
Jonny Lee Miller has a marathon PB of 3.01
not quite sub-elite but hey ho...
Going back some years, Michael Crawford was rumoured to have run a 4.20 mile when preparing for the film, The Games. Gordon Pirie was given the job of getting him into shape and was apparently amazed by the amount of running Crawford was able to do – he reckoned he could have been very good.
And Oliver Reed once finished second in the English Schools X/C champs.
Curiousd00d wrote:
used to run at an elite/sub-elite level? If not that, at least respectable marks?
Ellie Goulding is an excellent 10k runner. In fact she runs one prior to concerts. She also runs good half marathon times and has cancelled shows to run one when she thinks it's been too long since her last one. She has a half marathon time of 1hr 41. Not bad considering she isn't exactly regularly training.
Not an actress but British model Nell McAndrew has run the London Marathon fats enough to qualify for elite events. She's a fitness lover but again superb for somebody who isn't in elite training or coaching.
McAndrew’s PBs
10k: 36.54
1/2M: 1.21.51
Mar: 2.54.39
all from 2012 when she was 39
and she is stil VERY EASY on the eye :)
Jimmy Saville !!!!! ..you may not have heard of him in US try google enough said.
Bruce Dern:
"On the record, I'll tell you: I've never stretched a muscle. By the time you stretch, you could have gone three quarters of a mile or more. I'd rather warm up in that time. I've known guys who run marathons in 2:18, 2:19, and start back in the 4,000s with the eight-minute people, getting loose and working their way up front. There's a lot of tension at the front. When I was running on the track, I never led, and when I did, I always got beat. Why not let the other guys do all the work? Just take an imaginary string, tie it to you, stay behind. They break the wind, do everything else, and when it's time to go, you go. But when you go, you better bury the guy that you're passing because he can always come back on you. But if you destroy him, always try and get him on an uphill when he's mentally a little tired anyway, even if you're doing a 150-yard interval to do it. Then when you get down the hill, you can find a way to pretend you're still running fast and slow down and get a breath."
Wasn't Robin Williams a 4:30 miler or better?
Lassie was world class in the steeplechase prior to her Hollywood career.
Morgan Uceny is a well known dramatic actress and a former world-class runner.
lucky_kid wrote:
Wasn't Robin Williams a 4:30 miler or better?
Who wasn't a 4:30 miler?
Was thinking of Peter Garrett of Midnight Oil, but others are rehashed here: http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=1752135
Dana Carvey ran at a community college in the Bay Area.
There was a guitarist (name was Will Lee or something like that) in the house band for David Letterman (when his show was on NBC) who ran the NY Marathon several times.
Oprah ran the Marine Corps marathon one year.
Local parasite wrote:
lucky_kid wrote:Wasn't Robin Williams a 4:30 miler or better?
Who wasn't a 4:30 miler?
the430miler.
that Dennis Weaver was 6th at the '48 Olympic trials 61xxpts & had a 4:33 DecaPR for 1500
Dana Carvey 4:27 miler, Robin Williams 159ish 880, Cardsharp(cardshark?) Doyle Brunson was Texas state champ 1950 and ran 4:19 at 18 years old.
