I'm cleaning and gleaning from old files, suggestions, forgotten memories, and events. Here's something from various ages and situations for your enjoyment.
A 5000 involving Kenisa Bekele, Eliud Kipchoge, Mo Farah, and Bernard Lagat link from Berlin in 2009.
Next, the Olympic javelin champion Neeraj Chopra demonstrates some of his skills and training techniques on this Canadian Running link. In particular check out the video which starts with a profile of him. You will not believe this man's flexibility and recoil strength.
Neeraj Chopra on Javelin Training link
A note from Richard Mach reminding me of the incredible Kenyan Daniel Komen who still holds the WR for 3000m and 2 miles. And a Youtube video of that 3000.
George -
Jan. 23, 2023
Know I’ve sent something quite close like this before but after a quarter century and no human being coming within about 2 seconds of either of his 2 WRs, I think he remains the top distance human male in history. Wrote what’s below earlier this morning.
“ I have done this calculation on at least 5 diff occasions over the years because just looking at his WR @ 3K I am simply gobsmacked … overcome with awe. Had he sustained that pace for another 218 meters ( 238 yds) he would have breasted the tape in 7:52.7 for 2 miles. He remains, after a quarter century, the only human male to run under 8 flat (7:58.6). His first mile was faster than Bannister’s and the second equalled Sir Roger’s. The 3 Km record is superior to the 2 mile considerably and we are already in some lights-out, stratospheric realm with the latter. I read Komen had the trait of going out there on the track w abandon and seeing if he would die before hitting the tape. Pace.? What? He ran hard until he couldn’t. His WR @ 3 Km is the best distance mark barely now just beyond Kipchoge’s superhuman mark in the marathon. And surpasses even El G’s 3:43.13 mile, his 3:26.0 1500 m and his 4:44.79 2000 m WRs. In the latter — if running even pace — ElG’d come by the mile in 3:49.1. Not a bad day at the track! ”
Daniel Komen 3000m WR
The following note came from Bob Darling with accompanying article about his relative Paddy Aglin, Irish long jumper/polevaulter.
Hi George,
I just came across updated information on a famous Irish cousin track athlete. (1928 Irish Olympian in long jump) He would be my great grandfather”s (Dads side) Edmond Anglim nephew. He looks about 5’10” tall as the other athlete Tobin was 6’5”.(discus/weight Irish champion thrower) Note the old steel pole vault photos from the 1930”s. So I must of gotten the athletic gene/height from the Anglim side. I did run in the 1972 US Olympic marathon trials in Eugene, Oregon. Only 50 years ago!
Bob Darling
Paddy Anglim
by Michael O’Dwyer
Paddy Anglim was born on 6 September 1904 at Rosegreen, County Tipperary. He was the eldest child, and
only son, of William Anglim, a farmer, and Mary Anne Anglim (née Lonergan). His parents got married in the
Church of the Holy Trinity, Fethard, on 19 November 1902. Paddy Anglim joined the Garda Síochána in Dublin
on 4 July 1928 and was posted to Campile, County Wexford, on 4 December 1929. From there he was
transferred to Oylegate, County Wexford, on 6 May 1932. Then to Clonmel on 13 July 1933 where he was
based for over six years. Next to Roscrea on 10 October 1939 where he was for three and a half years, and
finally, on 5 May 1943 he was stationed at Puckane, County Tipperary. In the long jump he broke 23 ft (7.02 m)
regularly in national and international competitions. He was also a good sprinter and hurdler, and was the best
in the country at the time in the pole vault. Paddy was in the Irish team at the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam,
competing in the long jump on 31 July. With a jump of 22 ft 4 in. (6.81 m) he finished twenty-first out of forty-
one competitors. He first won a national title at the Irish athletics championships the previous month at Croke
Park on 23 June with a winning long jump of 23 ft 41⁄2 in. (7.12 m), a mark not reached in the national
championships since as far back as 1906 and would have been good enough for eleventh place at that year’s
Olympic Games in Amsterdam. A fortnight later on 7 July the Irish pole vault championship was held at the
Garda sports at Croke Park and Paddy Anglim won with an Irish record of 11 ft 3 in. (3.43 m). These were the
first of his many Irish championship wins, and in all he won seven long jump titles and six pole vault titles. He
was runner-up in the Irish championships six times including twice in the decathlon and once in the hurdles, and
finished third twice including once in the javelin. In England at the AAA championships he was second in the
long jump in 1932. He competed for Ireland in international competitions on nine different occasions and won
the long jump at the 1932 Tailteann Games. Paddy Anglim was still serving as a Garda in Puckane when he
died in Rosegreen on 3 March 1954, aged forty-nine, and is interred in Rosegreen cemetery.
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