Re: t-and-f: Henry Rono
Henry's website this morning reports that he ran 17:47 at Carlsbad! bob - Original Message - From: Martin J. Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: t-and-f@lists.uoregon.edu Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 7:28 AM Subject: Re: t-and-f: Henry Rono I'd buy that if you think he will pull a Bubka which, in that case, he would run 19:19. He ran 19:20 a lot of months, training and pounds ago. Tom Derderian wrote: 19:25 On Mar 29, 2007, at 11:37 PM, B. Kunnath wrote: Rono posts regularly here: http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?board=1id=1828663thread=1444899 Any predictions for his 5k time at Carlsbad? bob
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http://www.mail-archive.com/t-and-f%40lists.uoregon.edu/msg23253.html Bob Duncan wrote: Henry's website this morning reports that he ran 17:47 at Carlsbad! bob - Original Message - From: Martin J. Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: t-and-f@lists.uoregon.edu Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 7:28 AM Subject: Re: t-and-f: Henry Rono I'd buy that if you think he will pull a Bubka which, in that case, he would run 19:19. He ran 19:20 a lot of months, training and pounds ago. Tom Derderian wrote: 19:25 On Mar 29, 2007, at 11:37 PM, B. Kunnath wrote: Rono posts regularly here: http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?board=1id=1828663thread=1444899 Any predictions for his 5k time at Carlsbad? bob
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Looks like he actually did. http://www.team-rono.com/team-rono.php Martin J. Dixon wrote: I swore I wouldn't fall for this today. Oh well. http://www.mail-archive.com/t-and-f%40lists.uoregon.edu/msg23253.html Bob Duncan wrote: Henry's website this morning reports that he ran 17:47 at Carlsbad! bob
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I swore I wouldn't fall for this today. Oh well. http://www.mail-archive.com/t-and-f%40lists.uoregon.edu/msg23253.html Bob Duncan wrote: Henry's website this morning reports that he ran 17:47 at Carlsbad! bob
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The only time I saw Henry Rono run in person was at the NCAA XC championships in Wisconsin in 1978??? - the windy and really cold meet. I think Rono's comment was that Americans were crazy for running in weather like that. He finished almost last. I've got a few photos of Rono, Salazar, Rudy, Thom Hunt, and others. Two more Rono articles: Defar and a certain 'H. Rono', the star names of the 22nd Carlsbad 5000 Thursday 29 March 2007 http://www.iaaf.org/news/Kind=2/newsId=38153.html -- Original message -- From: Tom Derderian [EMAIL PROTECTED] It was some time well after that that I found Henry Rono at the mile mark of the Riverside 5 miler in MA at 4:50. He had a big spare tire of fat blubbering up and down with each step. He stayed just ahead of me all the way for the 25 minutes. I wonder what his absolute VO2 max was! Tom On Mar 30, 2007, at 11:23 PM, Benji Durden wrote: Chas. L. Shaffer wrote: I'd go to see him run if it was within 300 miles. My wife and I were among the roughly 200 fans present when he broke the WR in the steeplechase at the Northwest Relays in Seattle on May 13, 1978 with a 8:05.4 (h). After that I saw him race several more times, including the great 10,000m duel with Salazar in 1982 in Eugene. I am looking forward to his masters record pursuit, whatever it may bring. I am glad to hear that Henry is back on a good path. Charley Shaffer Seattle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lucky you! I never saw him race in person. I remember being in Knoxville for the 1982 TAC meet, when they let foreigners compete, and he was listed in the program. I kept thinking that I was seeing him warming up, but it was not to be. bob (KC4TEO) I actually compete against Rono a few times on the roads. In 1980 he flew in on the Concorde from Europe to NYC for the Midland Run 15K and then came to the start via helicopter. He promptly went backwards in that race and was never a factor. Later that year at the Cascade Runoff 15K, I was leading the race with him at my shoulder at about 2 miles and he leaned into me as we went into a curve where I lost my footing due to the wet volcanic ash (remember this was the year of Mt. St. Helens). I cracked a rib but still finished ahead of him. The next year at the Bloomsday 12K I finally saw him really run. He ran in training shoes and buried all of us chasing him. It wasn't even close. When he was on, it was scary. bd -- Benji Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Yes, Henry is the only three-time champion to ever make Anti-All America as well, by finishing in the bottom 25. http://www.team-rono.com/ malmo -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 6:36 PM To: Tom Derderian; Benji Durden Cc: tf list Subject: Re: t-and-f: Henry Rono The only time I saw Henry Rono run in person was at the NCAA XC championships in Wisconsin in 1978??? - the windy and really cold meet. I think Rono's comment was that Americans were crazy for running in weather like that. He finished almost last. I've got a few photos of Rono, Salazar, Rudy, Thom Hunt, and others. Two more Rono articles: Defar and a certain 'H. Rono', the star names of the 22nd Carlsbad 5000 Thursday 29 March 2007 http://www.iaaf.org/news/Kind=2/newsId=38153.html -- Original message -- From: Tom Derderian [EMAIL PROTECTED] It was some time well after that that I found Henry Rono at the mile mark of the Riverside 5 miler in MA at 4:50. He had a big spare tire of fat blubbering up and down with each step. He stayed just ahead of me all the way for the 25 minutes. I wonder what his absolute VO2 max was! Tom On Mar 30, 2007, at 11:23 PM, Benji Durden wrote: Chas. L. Shaffer wrote: I'd go to see him run if it was within 300 miles. My wife and I were among the roughly 200 fans present when he broke the WR in the steeplechase at the Northwest Relays in Seattle on May 13, 1978 with a 8:05.4 (h). After that I saw him race several more times, including the great 10,000m duel with Salazar in 1982 in Eugene. I am looking forward to his masters record pursuit, whatever it may bring. I am glad to hear that Henry is back on a good path. Charley Shaffer Seattle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lucky you! I never saw him race in person. I remember being in Knoxville for the 1982 TAC meet, when they let foreigners compete, and he was listed in the program. I kept thinking that I was seeing him warming up, but it was not to be. bob (KC4TEO) I actually compete against Rono a few times on the roads. In 1980 he flew in on the Concorde from Europe to NYC for the Midland Run 15K and then came to the start via helicopter. He promptly went backwards in that race and was never a factor. Later that year at the Cascade Runoff 15K, I was leading the race with him at my shoulder at about 2 miles and he leaned into me as we went into a curve where I lost my footing due to the wet volcanic ash (remember this was the year of Mt. St. Helens). I cracked a rib but still finished ahead of him. The next year at the Bloomsday 12K I finally saw him really run. He ran in training shoes and buried all of us chasing him. It wasn't even close. When he was on, it was scary. bd -- Benji Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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High 17s. B. Kunnath wrote: Any predictions for his 5k time at Carlsbad?
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19:25 On Mar 29, 2007, at 11:37 PM, B. Kunnath wrote: Rono posts regularly here: http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php? board=1id=1828663thread=1444899 Any predictions for his 5k time at Carlsbad? bob From: Bob Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Bob Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Track List' t-and-f@lists.uoregon.edu Subject: Re: t-and-f: Henry Rono Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:45:19 -0500 I accidently came across some posts from Rono the other day on one of the running forums. I almost couldn't believe that it was him, but the training claims and master's mile goal matched those of the LA Times story. Ironically, I had found the Rono posts while doing searches for another comebacking athlete from the same era, Patti (Catalano) Dillon. bob - Original Message - From: malmo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Jorma Kurry' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Track List' t-and-f@lists.uoregon.edu Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 7:43 PM Subject: RE: t-and-f: Henry Rono Henry ran a 5:32 mile in a time trial last week at Albuquerque (5000'). From 220 pounds to 165 since last May. malmo -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jorma Kurry Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 7:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Track List Subject: Re: t-and-f: Henry Rono Great article. I know Malmo was posting info at one point about his attempt for an age-group mile record, or something of that sort. Is there an update? He's among the many greats I'd love to meet (Rono, that is :) ). - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Track List t-and-f@lists.uoregon.edu Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 7:00 PM Subject: t-and-f: Henry Rono From the Los Angeles Times http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-crowe26mar26,1,1452093.story? coll=la-hea dlines-sportsctrack=1cset=true CROWE'S NEST Rono tries to distance himself from troubled past The runner, who broke world records in four events in short period in 1978, says his life is on the upswing after alcoholism and homelessness. By Jerry Crowe, Times Staff Writer March 26, 2007 Henry Rono, once the world's preeminent distance runner and some say the greatest of all time, probably is best known for his mind- boggling assault on the record books in the spring and summer of 1978, when he broke world records in four events over an 81-day period. I was ahead of everybody, he says. I wasn't competing with people. I was competing with time. It was me and the clock. The clock he could handle. The bottle, he couldn't. The Nandi tribesman from Kenya, who in 1978 was a Washington State student unprepared for the sudden fame and blinding spotlight, has battled alcoholism for nearly half his 55 years. His country's boycotts of the 1976 and 1980 Olympics denied him an international showcase, and he says unscrupulous managers and corrupt Kenyan track and field officials, combined with his own erratic behavior, left him penniless. Rono notes in his soon-to-be-published autobiography that he was so down on his luck in the mid-1990s - homeless and out of prospects - that he showed up at Nike headquarters in Beaverton, Ore., and pleaded for a job cleaning floors. His former sponsor, the great runner says, turned him away. If that was a low point for Rono, it was one of many. He says that he was intermittently homeless through much of the 1980s and '90s, was arrested more than once for driving while drunk, and drifted in and out of rehabilitation centers more times than he cares to remember. Friends took him in, then threw him out when his drinking got out of control. In steadier times, he worked as an airport skycap. He parked and washed cars. But all that is past, Rono says. His life is on the upswing. After shuttling from town to town for years, he says, he finally settled 11 years ago in Albuquerque. He says he has been sober for the last five. A full-time teacher pursuing a graduate degree in special education, he has taken a year off from work to write his recently completed memoirs and train for the Masters World Track Field Championships in September in Italy. On Sunday, he will compete in the Carlsbad 5K, and before the year is out he hopes to establish an age-group world record in the mile. I want to alert the public that I am back into running, he told race organizers in Carlsbad after signing on for their event. I want to teach people that you can come back from the streets and being homeless and recover your life again. The 5-foot-8 Rono, whose weight once ballooned to 220 pounds, says he is down to 165, 20 less than he weighed in December, when he ran in a 5K in Cincinnati and said, after spying a photo of himself, I look like a heavyweight boxer. His goal, he says, is to slim down to about 140. That's what he weighed as a 26-year-old sophomore in April 1978, when in a dual meet at Berkeley he set
Re: t-and-f: Henry Rono
I'd buy that if you think he will pull a Bubka which, in that case, he would run 19:19. He ran 19:20 a lot of months, training and pounds ago. Tom Derderian wrote: 19:25 On Mar 29, 2007, at 11:37 PM, B. Kunnath wrote: Rono posts regularly here: http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?board=1id=1828663thread=1444899 Any predictions for his 5k time at Carlsbad? bob
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WOW, high 17s?? Im thinking high 18s would be good right now. Malmo said his 1mile tt was 5:30. granted it was at elevation, but lets see! bob From: Martin J. Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Martin J. Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: t-and-f@lists.uoregon.edu Subject: Re: t-and-f: Henry Rono Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 05:03:46 -0400 High 17s. B. Kunnath wrote: Any predictions for his 5k time at Carlsbad? _ Live Search Maps find all the local information you need, right when you need it. http://maps.live.com/?icid=hmtag2FORM=MGAC01
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If that mile time is a true indication of his fitness, maybe even slower, but I don't think it is(probably unrested, altitude etc.). B. Kunnath wrote: WOW, high 17s?? Im thinking high 18s would be good right now. Malmo said his 1mile tt was 5:30. granted it was at elevation, but lets see! bob
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Tom Derderian wrote: 19:25 On Mar 29, 2007, at 11:37 PM, B. Kunnath wrote: Rono posts regularly here: http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php? board=1id=1828663thread=1444899 Yep, that's where I saw his posts. At first, I thought that I was hallucinating or reading the posts of an imposter. Given Henry's natural gifts and motivation, it will be fascinating to see how this turns out. I'm sure lots of people are rooting for him. bob Any predictions for his 5k time at Carlsbad? bob From: Bob Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Bob Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Track List' t-and-f@lists.uoregon.edu Subject: Re: t-and-f: Henry Rono Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:45:19 -0500 I accidently came across some posts from Rono the other day on one of the running forums. I almost couldn't believe that it was him, but the training claims and master's mile goal matched those of the LA Times story. Ironically, I had found the Rono posts while doing searches for another comebacking athlete from the same era, Patti (Catalano) Dillon. bob - Original Message - From: malmo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Jorma Kurry' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Track List' t-and-f@lists.uoregon.edu Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 7:43 PM Subject: RE: t-and-f: Henry Rono Henry ran a 5:32 mile in a time trial last week at Albuquerque (5000'). From 220 pounds to 165 since last May. malmo -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jorma Kurry Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 7:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Track List Subject: Re: t-and-f: Henry Rono Great article. I know Malmo was posting info at one point about his attempt for an age-group mile record, or something of that sort. Is there an update? He's among the many greats I'd love to meet (Rono, that is :) ). - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Track List t-and-f@lists.uoregon.edu Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 7:00 PM Subject: t-and-f: Henry Rono From the Los Angeles Times http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-crowe26mar26,1,1452093.story? coll=la-hea dlines-sportsctrack=1cset=true CROWE'S NEST Rono tries to distance himself from troubled past The runner, who broke world records in four events in short period in 1978, says his life is on the upswing after alcoholism and homelessness. By Jerry Crowe, Times Staff Writer March 26, 2007 Henry Rono, once the world's preeminent distance runner and some say the greatest of all time, probably is best known for his mind- boggling assault on the record books in the spring and summer of 1978, when he broke world records in four events over an 81-day period. I was ahead of everybody, he says. I wasn't competing with people. I was competing with time. It was me and the clock. The clock he could handle. The bottle, he couldn't. The Nandi tribesman from Kenya, who in 1978 was a Washington State student unprepared for the sudden fame and blinding spotlight, has battled alcoholism for nearly half his 55 years. His country's boycotts of the 1976 and 1980 Olympics denied him an international showcase, and he says unscrupulous managers and corrupt Kenyan track and field officials, combined with his own erratic behavior, left him penniless. Rono notes in his soon-to-be-published autobiography that he was so down on his luck in the mid-1990s - homeless and out of prospects - that he showed up at Nike headquarters in Beaverton, Ore., and pleaded for a job cleaning floors. His former sponsor, the great runner says, turned him away. If that was a low point for Rono, it was one of many. He says that he was intermittently homeless through much of the 1980s and '90s, was arrested more than once for driving while drunk, and drifted in and out of rehabilitation centers more times than he cares to remember. Friends took him in, then threw him out when his drinking got out of control. In steadier times, he worked as an airport skycap. He parked and washed cars. But all that is past, Rono says. His life is on the upswing. After shuttling from town to town for years, he says, he finally settled 11 years ago in Albuquerque. He says he has been sober for the last five. A full-time teacher pursuing a graduate degree in special education, he has taken a year off from work to write his recently completed memoirs and train for the Masters World Track Field Championships in September in Italy. On Sunday, he will compete in the Carlsbad 5K, and before the year is out he hopes to establish an age-group world record in the mile. I want to alert the public that I am back into running, he told race organizers in Carlsbad after signing on for their event. I want to teach people that you can come back from the streets and being homeless and recover your life again. The 5-foot-8 Rono, whose weight once ballooned to 220 pounds, says he is down to 165, 20 less than he weighed in December
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I'd go to see him run if it was within 300 miles. My wife and I were among the roughly 200 fans present when he broke the WR in the steeplechase at the Northwest Relays in Seattle on May 13, 1978 with a 8:05.4 (h). After that I saw him race several more times, including the great 10,000m duel with Salazar in 1982 in Eugene. I am looking forward to his masters record pursuit, whatever it may bring. I am glad to hear that Henry is back on a good path. Charley Shaffer Seattle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Bob Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mar 30, 2007 7:18 AM To: t-and-f@lists.uoregon.edu Subject: Re: t-and-f: Henry Rono Tom Derderian wrote: 19:25 On Mar 29, 2007, at 11:37 PM, B. Kunnath wrote: Rono posts regularly here: http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php? board=1id=1828663thread=1444899 Yep, that's where I saw his posts. At first, I thought that I was hallucinating or reading the posts of an imposter. Given Henry's natural gifts and motivation, it will be fascinating to see how this turns out. I'm sure lots of people are rooting for him. bob Any predictions for his 5k time at Carlsbad? bob From: Bob Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Bob Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Track List' t-and-f@lists.uoregon.edu Subject: Re: t-and-f: Henry Rono Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:45:19 -0500 I accidently came across some posts from Rono the other day on one of the running forums. I almost couldn't believe that it was him, but the training claims and master's mile goal matched those of the LA Times story. Ironically, I had found the Rono posts while doing searches for another comebacking athlete from the same era, Patti (Catalano) Dillon. bob - Original Message - From: malmo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Jorma Kurry' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Track List' t-and-f@lists.uoregon.edu Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 7:43 PM Subject: RE: t-and-f: Henry Rono Henry ran a 5:32 mile in a time trial last week at Albuquerque (5000'). From 220 pounds to 165 since last May. malmo -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jorma Kurry Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 7:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Track List Subject: Re: t-and-f: Henry Rono Great article. I know Malmo was posting info at one point about his attempt for an age-group mile record, or something of that sort. Is there an update? He's among the many greats I'd love to meet (Rono, that is :) ). - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Track List t-and-f@lists.uoregon.edu Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 7:00 PM Subject: t-and-f: Henry Rono From the Los Angeles Times http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-crowe26mar26,1,1452093.story? coll=la-hea dlines-sportsctrack=1cset=true CROWE'S NEST Rono tries to distance himself from troubled past The runner, who broke world records in four events in short period in 1978, says his life is on the upswing after alcoholism and homelessness. By Jerry Crowe, Times Staff Writer March 26, 2007 Henry Rono, once the world's preeminent distance runner and some say the greatest of all time, probably is best known for his mind- boggling assault on the record books in the spring and summer of 1978, when he broke world records in four events over an 81-day period. I was ahead of everybody, he says. I wasn't competing with people. I was competing with time. It was me and the clock. The clock he could handle. The bottle, he couldn't. The Nandi tribesman from Kenya, who in 1978 was a Washington State student unprepared for the sudden fame and blinding spotlight, has battled alcoholism for nearly half his 55 years. His country's boycotts of the 1976 and 1980 Olympics denied him an international showcase, and he says unscrupulous managers and corrupt Kenyan track and field officials, combined with his own erratic behavior, left him penniless. Rono notes in his soon-to-be-published autobiography that he was so down on his luck in the mid-1990s - homeless and out of prospects - that he showed up at Nike headquarters in Beaverton, Ore., and pleaded for a job cleaning floors. His former sponsor, the great runner says, turned him away. If that was a low point for Rono, it was one of many. He says that he was intermittently homeless through much of the 1980s and '90s, was arrested more than once for driving while drunk, and drifted in and out of rehabilitation centers more times than he cares to remember. Friends took him in, then threw him out when his drinking got out of control. In steadier times, he worked as an airport skycap. He parked and washed cars. But all that is past, Rono says. His life is on the upswing. After shuttling from town to town for years, he says, he finally settled 11 years ago in Albuquerque. He says he has been sober for the last five. A full
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Chas. L. Shaffer wrote: I'd go to see him run if it was within 300 miles. My wife and I were among the roughly 200 fans present when he broke the WR in the steeplechase at the Northwest Relays in Seattle on May 13, 1978 with a 8:05.4 (h). After that I saw him race several more times, including the great 10,000m duel with Salazar in 1982 in Eugene. I am looking forward to his masters record pursuit, whatever it may bring. I am glad to hear that Henry is back on a good path. Charley Shaffer Seattle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lucky you! I never saw him race in person. I remember being in Knoxville for the 1982 TAC meet, when they let foreigners compete, and he was listed in the program. I kept thinking that I was seeing him warming up, but it was not to be. bob (KC4TEO) -Original Message- From: Bob Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mar 30, 2007 7:18 AM To: t-and-f@lists.uoregon.edu Subject: Re: t-and-f: Henry Rono Tom Derderian wrote: 19:25 On Mar 29, 2007, at 11:37 PM, B. Kunnath wrote: Rono posts regularly here: http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php? board=1id=1828663thread=1444899 Yep, that's where I saw his posts. At first, I thought that I was hallucinating or reading the posts of an imposter. Given Henry's natural gifts and motivation, it will be fascinating to see how this turns out. I'm sure lots of people are rooting for him. bob Any predictions for his 5k time at Carlsbad? bob From: Bob Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Bob Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Track List' t-and-f@lists.uoregon.edu Subject: Re: t-and-f: Henry Rono Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:45:19 -0500 I accidently came across some posts from Rono the other day on one of the running forums. I almost couldn't believe that it was him, but the training claims and master's mile goal matched those of the LA Times story. Ironically, I had found the Rono posts while doing searches for another comebacking athlete from the same era, Patti (Catalano) Dillon. bob - Original Message - From: malmo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Jorma Kurry' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Track List' t-and-f@lists.uoregon.edu Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 7:43 PM Subject: RE: t-and-f: Henry Rono Henry ran a 5:32 mile in a time trial last week at Albuquerque (5000'). From 220 pounds to 165 since last May. malmo -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jorma Kurry Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 7:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Track List Subject: Re: t-and-f: Henry Rono Great article. I know Malmo was posting info at one point about his attempt for an age-group mile record, or something of that sort. Is there an update? He's among the many greats I'd love to meet (Rono, that is :) ). - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Track List t-and-f@lists.uoregon.edu Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 7:00 PM Subject: t-and-f: Henry Rono From the Los Angeles Times http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-crowe26mar26,1,1452093.story? coll=la-hea dlines-sportsctrack=1cset=true CROWE'S NEST Rono tries to distance himself from troubled past The runner, who broke world records in four events in short period in 1978, says his life is on the upswing after alcoholism and homelessness. By Jerry Crowe, Times Staff Writer March 26, 2007 Henry Rono, once the world's preeminent distance runner and some say the greatest of all time, probably is best known for his mind- boggling assault on the record books in the spring and summer of 1978, when he broke world records in four events over an 81-day period. I was ahead of everybody, he says. I wasn't competing with people. I was competing with time. It was me and the clock. The clock he could handle. The bottle, he couldn't. The Nandi tribesman from Kenya, who in 1978 was a Washington State student unprepared for the sudden fame and blinding spotlight, has battled alcoholism for nearly half his 55 years. His country's boycotts of the 1976 and 1980 Olympics denied him an international showcase, and he says unscrupulous managers and corrupt Kenyan track and field officials, combined with his own erratic behavior, left him penniless. Rono notes in his soon-to-be-published autobiography that he was so down on his luck in the mid-1990s - homeless and out of prospects - that he showed up at Nike headquarters in Beaverton, Ore., and pleaded for a job cleaning floors. His former sponsor, the great runner says, turned him away. If that was a low point for Rono, it was one of many. He says that he was intermittently homeless through much of the 1980s and '90s, was arrested more than once for driving while drunk, and drifted in and out of rehabilitation centers more times than he cares to remember. Friends took him in, then threw him out when his drinking got out of control. In steadier times, he worked as an airport skycap. He parked and washed cars. But all that is past, Rono
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Chas. L. Shaffer wrote: I'd go to see him run if it was within 300 miles. My wife and I were among the roughly 200 fans present when he broke the WR in the steeplechase at the Northwest Relays in Seattle on May 13, 1978 with a 8:05.4 (h). After that I saw him race several more times, including the great 10,000m duel with Salazar in 1982 in Eugene. I am looking forward to his masters record pursuit, whatever it may bring. I am glad to hear that Henry is back on a good path. Charley Shaffer Seattle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lucky you! I never saw him race in person. I remember being in Knoxville for the 1982 TAC meet, when they let foreigners compete, and he was listed in the program. I kept thinking that I was seeing him warming up, but it was not to be. bob (KC4TEO) I actually compete against Rono a few times on the roads. In 1980 he flew in on the Concorde from Europe to NYC for the Midland Run 15K and then came to the start via helicopter. He promptly went backwards in that race and was never a factor. Later that year at the Cascade Runoff 15K, I was leading the race with him at my shoulder at about 2 miles and he leaned into me as we went into a curve where I lost my footing due to the wet volcanic ash (remember this was the year of Mt. St. Helens). I cracked a rib but still finished ahead of him. The next year at the Bloomsday 12K I finally saw him really run. He ran in training shoes and buried all of us chasing him. It wasn't even close. When he was on, it was scary. bd -- Benji Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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It was some time well after that that I found Henry Rono at the mile mark of the Riverside 5 miler in MA at 4:50. He had a big spare tire of fat blubbering up and down with each step. He stayed just ahead of me all the way for the 25 minutes. I wonder what his absolute VO2 max was! Tom On Mar 30, 2007, at 11:23 PM, Benji Durden wrote: Chas. L. Shaffer wrote: I'd go to see him run if it was within 300 miles. My wife and I were among the roughly 200 fans present when he broke the WR in the steeplechase at the Northwest Relays in Seattle on May 13, 1978 with a 8:05.4 (h). After that I saw him race several more times, including the great 10,000m duel with Salazar in 1982 in Eugene. I am looking forward to his masters record pursuit, whatever it may bring. I am glad to hear that Henry is back on a good path. Charley Shaffer Seattle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lucky you! I never saw him race in person. I remember being in Knoxville for the 1982 TAC meet, when they let foreigners compete, and he was listed in the program. I kept thinking that I was seeing him warming up, but it was not to be. bob (KC4TEO) I actually compete against Rono a few times on the roads. In 1980 he flew in on the Concorde from Europe to NYC for the Midland Run 15K and then came to the start via helicopter. He promptly went backwards in that race and was never a factor. Later that year at the Cascade Runoff 15K, I was leading the race with him at my shoulder at about 2 miles and he leaned into me as we went into a curve where I lost my footing due to the wet volcanic ash (remember this was the year of Mt. St. Helens). I cracked a rib but still finished ahead of him. The next year at the Bloomsday 12K I finally saw him really run. He ran in training shoes and buried all of us chasing him. It wasn't even close. When he was on, it was scary. bd -- Benji Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Great article. I know Malmo was posting info at one point about his attempt for an age-group mile record, or something of that sort. Is there an update? He's among the many greats I'd love to meet (Rono, that is :) ). - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Track List t-and-f@lists.uoregon.edu Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 7:00 PM Subject: t-and-f: Henry Rono From the Los Angeles Times http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-crowe26mar26,1,1452093.story?coll=la-headlines-sportsctrack=1cset=true CROWE'S NEST Rono tries to distance himself from troubled past The runner, who broke world records in four events in short period in 1978, says his life is on the upswing after alcoholism and homelessness. By Jerry Crowe, Times Staff Writer March 26, 2007 Henry Rono, once the world's preeminent distance runner and some say the greatest of all time, probably is best known for his mind-boggling assault on the record books in the spring and summer of 1978, when he broke world records in four events over an 81-day period. I was ahead of everybody, he says. I wasn't competing with people. I was competing with time. It was me and the clock. The clock he could handle. The bottle, he couldn't. The Nandi tribesman from Kenya, who in 1978 was a Washington State student unprepared for the sudden fame and blinding spotlight, has battled alcoholism for nearly half his 55 years. His country's boycotts of the 1976 and 1980 Olympics denied him an international showcase, and he says unscrupulous managers and corrupt Kenyan track and field officials, combined with his own erratic behavior, left him penniless. Rono notes in his soon-to-be-published autobiography that he was so down on his luck in the mid-1990s - homeless and out of prospects - that he showed up at Nike headquarters in Beaverton, Ore., and pleaded for a job cleaning floors. His former sponsor, the great runner says, turned him away. If that was a low point for Rono, it was one of many. He says that he was intermittently homeless through much of the 1980s and '90s, was arrested more than once for driving while drunk, and drifted in and out of rehabilitation centers more times than he cares to remember. Friends took him in, then threw him out when his drinking got out of control. In steadier times, he worked as an airport skycap. He parked and washed cars. But all that is past, Rono says. His life is on the upswing. After shuttling from town to town for years, he says, he finally settled 11 years ago in Albuquerque. He says he has been sober for the last five. A full-time teacher pursuing a graduate degree in special education, he has taken a year off from work to write his recently completed memoirs and train for the Masters World Track Field Championships in September in Italy. On Sunday, he will compete in the Carlsbad 5K, and before the year is out he hopes to establish an age-group world record in the mile. I want to alert the public that I am back into running, he told race organizers in Carlsbad after signing on for their event. I want to teach people that you can come back from the streets and being homeless and recover your life again. The 5-foot-8 Rono, whose weight once ballooned to 220 pounds, says he is down to 165, 20 less than he weighed in December, when he ran in a 5K in Cincinnati and said, after spying a photo of himself, I look like a heavyweight boxer. His goal, he says, is to slim down to about 140. That's what he weighed as a 26-year-old sophomore in April 1978, when in a dual meet at Berkeley he set a world record of 13 minutes 8.4 seconds in the 5,000 meters. A month later, in Seattle, he established a steeplechase mark of 8:05:4, and a month after that, in Vienna, he set a record of 27:22:47 in the 10,000 meters. Sixteen days later, in Oslo, he set his fourth world record: 7:32.1 in the 3,000 meters. It was amazing, he says, but the way the media was handling my success was intimidating. I was not prepared for that. It was very stressful. Don Franken, a longtime track promoter and president of a sports celebrity talent agency, says Rono was a fish out of water, struggling to find his way. It was such a culture shock coming here from Kenya, Franken says. He was lost - and he had an addiction. You could call him a tragedy, but how many people set four world records in such a short span of time? Rono's records in the 3,000 and the steeplechase stood for years, but by the early 1980s, he was drinking heavily. He started showing up drunk at races, or not showing up at all. But his talent was so immense that, in September 1981, he reportedly got drunk the night before a race in Oslo, ran for an hour early the next morning to sweat out the alcohol, then set a world record in the 5,000 that night. Those days are long past, but Rono says his life has changed for the better. No longer homeless, he bought a house a few years ago. I feel happy
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Henry ran a 5:32 mile in a time trial last week at Albuquerque (5000'). From 220 pounds to 165 since last May. malmo -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jorma Kurry Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 7:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Track List Subject: Re: t-and-f: Henry Rono Great article. I know Malmo was posting info at one point about his attempt for an age-group mile record, or something of that sort. Is there an update? He's among the many greats I'd love to meet (Rono, that is :) ). - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Track List t-and-f@lists.uoregon.edu Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 7:00 PM Subject: t-and-f: Henry Rono From the Los Angeles Times http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-crowe26mar26,1,1452093.story?coll=la-hea dlines-sportsctrack=1cset=true CROWE'S NEST Rono tries to distance himself from troubled past The runner, who broke world records in four events in short period in 1978, says his life is on the upswing after alcoholism and homelessness. By Jerry Crowe, Times Staff Writer March 26, 2007 Henry Rono, once the world's preeminent distance runner and some say the greatest of all time, probably is best known for his mind-boggling assault on the record books in the spring and summer of 1978, when he broke world records in four events over an 81-day period. I was ahead of everybody, he says. I wasn't competing with people. I was competing with time. It was me and the clock. The clock he could handle. The bottle, he couldn't. The Nandi tribesman from Kenya, who in 1978 was a Washington State student unprepared for the sudden fame and blinding spotlight, has battled alcoholism for nearly half his 55 years. His country's boycotts of the 1976 and 1980 Olympics denied him an international showcase, and he says unscrupulous managers and corrupt Kenyan track and field officials, combined with his own erratic behavior, left him penniless. Rono notes in his soon-to-be-published autobiography that he was so down on his luck in the mid-1990s - homeless and out of prospects - that he showed up at Nike headquarters in Beaverton, Ore., and pleaded for a job cleaning floors. His former sponsor, the great runner says, turned him away. If that was a low point for Rono, it was one of many. He says that he was intermittently homeless through much of the 1980s and '90s, was arrested more than once for driving while drunk, and drifted in and out of rehabilitation centers more times than he cares to remember. Friends took him in, then threw him out when his drinking got out of control. In steadier times, he worked as an airport skycap. He parked and washed cars. But all that is past, Rono says. His life is on the upswing. After shuttling from town to town for years, he says, he finally settled 11 years ago in Albuquerque. He says he has been sober for the last five. A full-time teacher pursuing a graduate degree in special education, he has taken a year off from work to write his recently completed memoirs and train for the Masters World Track Field Championships in September in Italy. On Sunday, he will compete in the Carlsbad 5K, and before the year is out he hopes to establish an age-group world record in the mile. I want to alert the public that I am back into running, he told race organizers in Carlsbad after signing on for their event. I want to teach people that you can come back from the streets and being homeless and recover your life again. The 5-foot-8 Rono, whose weight once ballooned to 220 pounds, says he is down to 165, 20 less than he weighed in December, when he ran in a 5K in Cincinnati and said, after spying a photo of himself, I look like a heavyweight boxer. His goal, he says, is to slim down to about 140. That's what he weighed as a 26-year-old sophomore in April 1978, when in a dual meet at Berkeley he set a world record of 13 minutes 8.4 seconds in the 5,000 meters. A month later, in Seattle, he established a steeplechase mark of 8:05:4, and a month after that, in Vienna, he set a record of 27:22:47 in the 10,000 meters. Sixteen days later, in Oslo, he set his fourth world record: 7:32.1 in the 3,000 meters. It was amazing, he says, but the way the media was handling my success was intimidating. I was not prepared for that. It was very stressful. Don Franken, a longtime track promoter and president of a sports celebrity talent agency, says Rono was a fish out of water, struggling to find his way. It was such a culture shock coming here from Kenya, Franken says. He was lost - and he had an addiction. You could call him a tragedy, but how many people set four world records in such a short span of time? Rono's records in the 3,000 and the steeplechase stood for years, but by the early 1980s, he was drinking heavily. He started showing up drunk at races, or not showing up at all
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I accidently came across some posts from Rono the other day on one of the running forums. I almost couldn't believe that it was him, but the training claims and master's mile goal matched those of the LA Times story. Ironically, I had found the Rono posts while doing searches for another comebacking athlete from the same era, Patti (Catalano) Dillon. bob - Original Message - From: malmo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Jorma Kurry' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Track List' t-and-f@lists.uoregon.edu Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 7:43 PM Subject: RE: t-and-f: Henry Rono Henry ran a 5:32 mile in a time trial last week at Albuquerque (5000'). From 220 pounds to 165 since last May. malmo -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jorma Kurry Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 7:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Track List Subject: Re: t-and-f: Henry Rono Great article. I know Malmo was posting info at one point about his attempt for an age-group mile record, or something of that sort. Is there an update? He's among the many greats I'd love to meet (Rono, that is :) ). - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Track List t-and-f@lists.uoregon.edu Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 7:00 PM Subject: t-and-f: Henry Rono From the Los Angeles Times http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-crowe26mar26,1,1452093.story?coll=la-hea dlines-sportsctrack=1cset=true CROWE'S NEST Rono tries to distance himself from troubled past The runner, who broke world records in four events in short period in 1978, says his life is on the upswing after alcoholism and homelessness. By Jerry Crowe, Times Staff Writer March 26, 2007 Henry Rono, once the world's preeminent distance runner and some say the greatest of all time, probably is best known for his mind-boggling assault on the record books in the spring and summer of 1978, when he broke world records in four events over an 81-day period. I was ahead of everybody, he says. I wasn't competing with people. I was competing with time. It was me and the clock. The clock he could handle. The bottle, he couldn't. The Nandi tribesman from Kenya, who in 1978 was a Washington State student unprepared for the sudden fame and blinding spotlight, has battled alcoholism for nearly half his 55 years. His country's boycotts of the 1976 and 1980 Olympics denied him an international showcase, and he says unscrupulous managers and corrupt Kenyan track and field officials, combined with his own erratic behavior, left him penniless. Rono notes in his soon-to-be-published autobiography that he was so down on his luck in the mid-1990s - homeless and out of prospects - that he showed up at Nike headquarters in Beaverton, Ore., and pleaded for a job cleaning floors. His former sponsor, the great runner says, turned him away. If that was a low point for Rono, it was one of many. He says that he was intermittently homeless through much of the 1980s and '90s, was arrested more than once for driving while drunk, and drifted in and out of rehabilitation centers more times than he cares to remember. Friends took him in, then threw him out when his drinking got out of control. In steadier times, he worked as an airport skycap. He parked and washed cars. But all that is past, Rono says. His life is on the upswing. After shuttling from town to town for years, he says, he finally settled 11 years ago in Albuquerque. He says he has been sober for the last five. A full-time teacher pursuing a graduate degree in special education, he has taken a year off from work to write his recently completed memoirs and train for the Masters World Track Field Championships in September in Italy. On Sunday, he will compete in the Carlsbad 5K, and before the year is out he hopes to establish an age-group world record in the mile. I want to alert the public that I am back into running, he told race organizers in Carlsbad after signing on for their event. I want to teach people that you can come back from the streets and being homeless and recover your life again. The 5-foot-8 Rono, whose weight once ballooned to 220 pounds, says he is down to 165, 20 less than he weighed in December, when he ran in a 5K in Cincinnati and said, after spying a photo of himself, I look like a heavyweight boxer. His goal, he says, is to slim down to about 140. That's what he weighed as a 26-year-old sophomore in April 1978, when in a dual meet at Berkeley he set a world record of 13 minutes 8.4 seconds in the 5,000 meters. A month later, in Seattle, he established a steeplechase mark of 8:05:4, and a month after that, in Vienna, he set a record of 27:22:47 in the 10,000 meters. Sixteen days later, in Oslo, he set his fourth world record: 7:32.1 in the 3,000 meters. It was amazing, he says, but the way the media was handling my success was intimidating. I was not prepared for that. It was very stressful. Don Franken, a longtime track
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Rono posts regularly here: http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?board=1id=1828663thread=1444899 Any predictions for his 5k time at Carlsbad? bob From: Bob Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Bob Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Track List' t-and-f@lists.uoregon.edu Subject: Re: t-and-f: Henry Rono Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:45:19 -0500 I accidently came across some posts from Rono the other day on one of the running forums. I almost couldn't believe that it was him, but the training claims and master's mile goal matched those of the LA Times story. Ironically, I had found the Rono posts while doing searches for another comebacking athlete from the same era, Patti (Catalano) Dillon. bob - Original Message - From: malmo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Jorma Kurry' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Track List' t-and-f@lists.uoregon.edu Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 7:43 PM Subject: RE: t-and-f: Henry Rono Henry ran a 5:32 mile in a time trial last week at Albuquerque (5000'). From 220 pounds to 165 since last May. malmo -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jorma Kurry Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 7:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Track List Subject: Re: t-and-f: Henry Rono Great article. I know Malmo was posting info at one point about his attempt for an age-group mile record, or something of that sort. Is there an update? He's among the many greats I'd love to meet (Rono, that is :) ). - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Track List t-and-f@lists.uoregon.edu Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 7:00 PM Subject: t-and-f: Henry Rono From the Los Angeles Times http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-crowe26mar26,1,1452093.story?coll=la-hea dlines-sportsctrack=1cset=true CROWE'S NEST Rono tries to distance himself from troubled past The runner, who broke world records in four events in short period in 1978, says his life is on the upswing after alcoholism and homelessness. By Jerry Crowe, Times Staff Writer March 26, 2007 Henry Rono, once the world's preeminent distance runner and some say the greatest of all time, probably is best known for his mind-boggling assault on the record books in the spring and summer of 1978, when he broke world records in four events over an 81-day period. I was ahead of everybody, he says. I wasn't competing with people. I was competing with time. It was me and the clock. The clock he could handle. The bottle, he couldn't. The Nandi tribesman from Kenya, who in 1978 was a Washington State student unprepared for the sudden fame and blinding spotlight, has battled alcoholism for nearly half his 55 years. His country's boycotts of the 1976 and 1980 Olympics denied him an international showcase, and he says unscrupulous managers and corrupt Kenyan track and field officials, combined with his own erratic behavior, left him penniless. Rono notes in his soon-to-be-published autobiography that he was so down on his luck in the mid-1990s - homeless and out of prospects - that he showed up at Nike headquarters in Beaverton, Ore., and pleaded for a job cleaning floors. His former sponsor, the great runner says, turned him away. If that was a low point for Rono, it was one of many. He says that he was intermittently homeless through much of the 1980s and '90s, was arrested more than once for driving while drunk, and drifted in and out of rehabilitation centers more times than he cares to remember. Friends took him in, then threw him out when his drinking got out of control. In steadier times, he worked as an airport skycap. He parked and washed cars. But all that is past, Rono says. His life is on the upswing. After shuttling from town to town for years, he says, he finally settled 11 years ago in Albuquerque. He says he has been sober for the last five. A full-time teacher pursuing a graduate degree in special education, he has taken a year off from work to write his recently completed memoirs and train for the Masters World Track Field Championships in September in Italy. On Sunday, he will compete in the Carlsbad 5K, and before the year is out he hopes to establish an age-group world record in the mile. I want to alert the public that I am back into running, he told race organizers in Carlsbad after signing on for their event. I want to teach people that you can come back from the streets and being homeless and recover your life again. The 5-foot-8 Rono, whose weight once ballooned to 220 pounds, says he is down to 165, 20 less than he weighed in December, when he ran in a 5K in Cincinnati and said, after spying a photo of himself, I look like a heavyweight boxer. His goal, he says, is to slim down to about 140. That's what he weighed as a 26-year-old sophomore in April 1978, when in a dual meet at Berkeley he set a world record of 13 minutes 8.4 seconds in the 5,000 meters. A month later, in Seattle, he established a steeplechase mark of 8:05:4
Re: t-and-f: Henry Rono / Trivia...
Hey Drew, I've heard the stories, but I wasn't commenting on his personal lifejust how he was on the track when he was at his best. Did he underachieve relative to what he might have accomplished??? No doubt about it. Ron Bowker This is NOT Dan's 'knowledge' of Henry. Sorry, Ron, but obviously Henry never lived with you. He lived with me for about two years. There was a LOT of excessiive drinking, LOTS of fines to be paid (by me), LOTS of time getting him out of jail and LOTS of time spent in unecessary stuations all because of drinking, drinking and more drinking. We all know he was among the greatest ever, but that doesn't erase the fact that he was probably also among the biggest underachievers ever. /Drew
