Running with Alan Webb at Club Cross

ChiefKeefer wrote:

What are the odds I will be able find Alan Webb at Club Cross in San Fran, so I can run with him? We've been running some similar results lately, on similar courses, and I think it'd be legit to find him and give him a good race. Huge idol of mine, and I heard on the boards he would be running there, so I wanna make this happen!!

Creepiest post in Letsrun history.

you run next to him. weirdo.

Serious answer: He is very easy to spot because of his very large bald head. Odds are very good that you won't miss him.

Just run the same pace as him and try to finish around where he does and then you can chat with him after the finish and do a cool down together. Pretty obvious honestly.

I'm glad you picked up on that. I was worried people were going to think I was too normal

The judge... wrote:

Creepiest post in Letsrun history.

And that is REALLY saying something...

Wow, American mile record holder. One of the best milers on the planet in 2007.

I bet there are more than a few douches on here that think collecting a scalp, nearly a decade after his peak performance, would be an accomplishment...

The phrase is "there's always one of them" but given the population on these boards "there's always several dozen of them" may be more applicable.

2/10 this is funny, alan webb will destroy you

I am failing to see where OP said they were after Alan's scalp...Just a creepy fanboy from the sounds of it

But the point remains, don't be a beta and just find him and talk to him, not that hard brah

Alan is a nice dude, and also a human being. Just introduce yourself and say hi if you see him, pretty simple.

I met Webb when I was in high school in 2011 at a George Mason home meet. He was really standoff-ish and wouldn't take a picture with me. Not sure if he'd want to run with you for fun, but if it's during the race go for it.

After the race just walk up and hug him for like 2 minutes and don't say anything.

I don't see the creep factor - I was running Falmouth one year and Joan Benoit came steaming up with a little group around her - so what? And Meb had a clump around him at hte 5th avenue mile this year.

The sport is unique that we can run with the stars - might as well enjoy it.

What's more creepy, this post or the creeper who posted a pic of a girl in a coffee shop and stalked her for 3 hours only to add her on Facebook and give his number without getting hers?

I met him around the same time at a local road race and he was very easy to talk to. He seemed totally down to earth and comfortable talking with me like I was just another fellow runner.

Do you have the thread for that? Sounds really funny/interesting

80s kid wrote:

What's more creepy, this post or the creeper who posted a pic of a girl in a coffee shop and stalked her for 3 hours only to add her on Facebook and give his number without getting hers?

I would hang out at the porta-potties pre race. He's bound to go sometime before the gun goes off. Once he exits the porta-potty, barge your way into the same one and

1) if you smell fresh urine or

2) you see a steaming fresh pile of #2

promptly exit the porta-potty, run after him, introduce yourself and compliment him on 1) or 2)

If there is no indication of either, run after him, firmly demand what he did in the porta-potty. If he gets nervous, pants him, and confirm that he is, in fact, an alien.

In either case, you should have a good race on hand when you come up behind him during the race, breathing on the back of his neck, and whisper "mmm Alan boy, it's me again, I like that sweet ass", proceeded by a slap and squeeze. Dig a few fingers into his crack, pull up beside him, look him straight in the eyes, hold those stink fingers under your nose and take a long, deep, nostril-flaring smell.

Course record guaranteed or your money back.

robert678 wrote:

Just run the same pace as him and try to finish around where he does and then you can chat with him after the finish and do a cool down together. Pretty obvious honestly.

Post race cool downs with other people besides your teammates is the best. This is a good answer. Throw a high five in there for good measure.

ayy wrote:

I met Webb when I was in high school in 2011 at a George Mason home meet. He was really standoff-ish and wouldn't take a picture with me. Not sure if he'd want to run with you for fun, but if it's during the race go for it.

I spoke will Alan in 2007 at the Adidas grand Prix and found him very approachable and friendly. I met him again in 2011 at Drake and again found him very friendly. He actually remembered our previous conversation and asked how my running was going. In 2007 I had broken 4 for the first and only time and he asked about it again in 2011.

Very cool guy (for a runner), you must have caught him on a bad day.

I remember a meet in 2011 Webb was at, he fell in the last 75 meters of the 800.. leading the whole way, finished in about 2:00 after he dusted himself off and let out a primal scream.... That probably wasn't his best day, if it was the same meet.