Most famous runner you have met or even ran with

Alberto, when he was 16. He was fun. And competitive.

Most famous runners I have met:

1. Galen Rupp

2. Evan Jager

3. Shalane Flanagan

4. Jerry Schumacher (ok, a coach)

Most famous runners I have run with:

1. Raced against Alexa Efraimson

(Ok ok she was like 3 minutes in front of me during the race LOL)

Bill Rodgers cooled down with me and a buddy after a 10K when we were in high school.

Cool guy.

Carl Lewis

Allyson Felix

Mike Powell

Kevin Young

Maurice Greene

Meb Keflezighi

Dawn Harper

Youth studs: Obea Moore, Kevin Craddock

Lots of 400 hurdlers not named Edwin Moses

Where do yall meet these people? I've never met any pro.

Ran with Heather Kampf

Kenenisa Bekele.

Also sat next to Evan Hager in the athlete area of this year's USA championships.

Dick Beardsley and Bill Rodgers at Beardsley's half marathon in Detroit Lakes, MN. A runner died that year.

I paid for the signed photo op, but forgot to put my shirt back on. I look like a bloated whale standing between those skinny guys.

Oh I forgot to mention, no Boston Marathon BS. Because this past year I met the new jack Ryan Hall, and of course Meb. But like they're basically the face of the event so c'mon now, obviously you're going to meet them.

The biggest I've run with are Rupp and Daniel Komen. Also Kara and Mary Slaney. Depending on who I'm talking too, either or is more famous/cool.

Steve Ovett presented a medal to my son at a XC in Queensland about ten years ago. Got a photo and signed his bib. Very nice guy. You used to see him at events when he had his own kids running in them.

Marty Liquori

Bill Rodgers

Jack Bachelor

Joan Samuelson

Wendy Sly

George Malley

Greg Fredericks

Steve Spence

ICan wrote:

This was a thread in the past, but it's been 4 years and there are so many new athletes since then. I'm just curious to see who the coolest you have ever met or, even cooler, ran with. It'd be even cooler to see if you all ran with some animals on the track/course on your own teams.

I'll start.

I ran at Oklahoma Baptist (men's team) and graduated with Hannah Fields (Helker). Awesome girl and a great friend. Great to see Oklahoma Talent making it to the next level.

Gerry Lindgren .

I ran 3 years at Texas University (didn't run freshman year, walked on sophomore year and was varsity squad my junior/senior year) and I had a teammate in high school who ran at the university of Oregon. I'll leave the name off of here as far as who it was, but he was on the same team as Rupp, Wheating and Centro. I mean running workouts with them 3 would be pretty sweet.

But, I did run with Lutz so I'm the real winner, am I right?

Doc neeo wrote:

Alberto, when he was 16. He was fun. And competitive.

Wow.

It looks like I am WINNING...again.

I am sorry about that.

Have a nice day.

Bruce Bickford!

Herb Lindsay - ran with and met - he used to come to the ELSB 10k back in the day. I got to meet him and ran a few miles with him. Also, this was in the days when Frank Shorter Sports had a store in my hometown. They used to do long runs out of there on Sundays. Herb came round for an MSU track meet a few times (won the 2-mile in 8:39 I think) and I met him and ran with him then. I was 11-17 years old during those yrs. He also did many road races in Michigan during the 1978-1981 yrs and I had older friends (some of them 20 yrs older) who were managers at Shorter's and had lived in Eugene, Boulder and Arizona and knew a bunch of the elite Americans from that era. So when I went to those road races during The Boom, I got to meet them.

Stan Mavis - ditto above - he ran for the FSRT and he had gone to MSU just a few yrs before.

Steve Flanagan - ran for the FSRT.

Frank Shorter - I only met him twice and we did not run with him - he seemed very busy and not at that time, able to talk to a 13-year-old group of fans. This was around 1980 and 1981 when he was often injured and was for the first time in his life not able to run 120 mpw. He was running 3 or 4 Running stores and a running clothing line. He was the first person I ever saw that I was in awe of. I walked into Frank Shorter Sports before the State Bank 10k one year and he was right in front of me, walking around and talking, and time stopped for me for a moment. I was 13 and I guess it would be like a musician seeing Paul McCartney or a pole vaulter seeing Bubka.

Pat Porter - met him half a dozen times (he was "dating" someone in Mid-Michigan apparently) and he came here for short trips of 3-4 days and he needed to train with people so he ran with the MSU runners some days. He was my idol when I was 15-16-17 and I found out he was on campus and I got in a few runs with him. I think I ran with him 3 times and they were easy runs (for him) but he would go 5:45 pace right away and stick to that consistently. I did one 10-miler with him and some other older guys and I didn't say a word the whole time (even though I had talked to Porter several other times not running). He was about 26 then and had already run 27:46 and had several National XC titles won by then.

Todd Williams - raced against him a bunch in high school and met him a dozen times - mostly after races in the '90s and in 2002 at the Gina Relays.

Met several Big 10 luminaries during different functions and events: Tim Hacker, Jim Stintzi, Jim Spivey, John Easker, Ken Popejoy, Ron Warhurst (was my XC camp coach), Dan Heikkinen, Brian Deimer, Steve Plasencia, pretty much every distance coach from the '80s and '90s. Ran with about half of them during distance camp or after races.

Gerry Donakowski was my XC camp counselor. This was a couple years before he ran 27:59 and won the US National Championship in '86-87. We ran with him twice a day at Camp.

Lisa Larsen-Weidenbach-Rainsberger - word was that she was dating a coach at U of M (in 1983) and this was before she placed FOURTH in the Trials THREE times straight. Ran with her at U of M XC camp for a week.

Bob Kennedy ran up on me one day... in Indianapolis...shared the track with Todd Williams... and Fam' in Knoxville...

Skyrunner.at.Altitude.7,033ft. wrote:

Doc neeo wrote:

Alberto, when he was 16. He was fun. And competitive.

Wow.

http://online.fliphtml5.com/rmkd/yjxj/#p=2

It looks like I am WINNING...again.

I am sorry about that.

Have a nice day.

Hi rjm!! We know it's you. Sorry your account got deleted