Tom fleming marathon runner vs sprinter

  • Essex County renamed an athletics facility after late running legend Tom Fleming.
  • Tom Fleming a year young provided a fantastic battle with Caolan McFadden from Crawford and only a fall with 450m to go could separate them for gold and silver.
  • It is well known that Tom Fleming was 160 lbs and ran 2:12.

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    Sigel and Kabuu at BIG 25 Berlin, April and Burkovskha at TUI Marathon Hanover, by Alfons Juck, note by Larry Eder

    Lusapha April wins TUI Marathon Hanover, 

    photo by PhotoRun.net

    Olena Burovska wins TUI Marathon Hanover, 

    photo by PhotoRun.net

    As I was walking in Albuquerque, New Mexico yesterday with our RN webmaster, Chuck Bartlett, results from around the world were arriving on my iphone. The health of our sport is amazing and the grass roots grown would surprise anyone who follows it.

    The Road Runners Clubs of America convention ended on Sunday, May 5 and the 59th convention is already in planning stages. Gary Morgan, Mr. Ubiquitous, a man more well travelled than I, has left Albquerque, as he pursues his goal of visiting 50 national parks. On Saturday night though, Gary video taped and I interviewed Tom Fleming, one of the most successful and colorful runners in our sport. A perfect ending to a fantastic convention and RN publishers meetings.

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    Arthur Lydiard

    (1917-2004)

    Portrait of Arthur Lydiard in 2004

    (*Watch Lydiard documentary HERE)

    Headshot of Arthur Lydiard: courtesy of Budd Coates in 1999

    Lydiard, age 65, demonstrating Hill Bounding (*Lydiard Hill Training Video HERE)

    Arthur Lydiard (left) with Nobby Hashizume in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1984

    Bill Bowerman (left)-Nobby Hashizume (middle)-Arthur Lydiard (right) in 1997 in Eugene, OR

    Nobby Hashizume with Bill Rodgers

    Nobby discussing training program with Arthur Lydiard over dinner in 1990

    Arthur and Nobby in Spokane, WA, in 2004 during Lydiard's final US lecture tour

    Nobby Hashizume with Frank Shorter

    Peter Snell on the cover of February/March 1999 issue of New Zealand Runner magazine, autographed (*Watch Snell documentary HERE)

    Heather Thompson with her 3,000m silver medal at 1978 Commonwealth Games

    Dick Quax's headshot on the cover of September/Octo

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    A Column bygd Len Johnson – Runner’s Tribe 

    There wasn’t much reason to remember the 1970s – apart from the fact that we could. It was the decade we regained our memories. It followed the ‘60s and, as everyone knows, if you can remember the ‘60s, you probably weren’t there.

    Athletically, the ‘70s was the decade of Viren, Juantorena, Rono, Shorter and Prefontaine, when Grete Waitz funnen her feet in the marathon as women’s distance running approached take-off.

    Matt Centrowitz – the father, not the son – and Tom Fleming were both ‘70s runners. Centrowitz senior made the US grupp which did go to the Montreal 1976 Olympic Games, and the one that would have gone to Moscow in 1980 had Jimmy Carter not imposed a US boycott.

    Centrowitz’s finest Olympic moment would come in Rio. Forty years after his only shot ended in the heats of the 1500 metres, he basked in reflected glory as his son won the gold medal in the same event. In a snygg irony, father Centrowitz was run out in a slow he