in the 'Running With the Boys' series about NAU there's an interesting moment when Beamish talks about getting injured multiple times early in his college career and barely being able to walk, let alone run. He says at any other program he would have been cut and his running career probably over. but Smith kept him on scholarship, kept working with him, and within a year he won the mile at the NCAA Championships.
whenever I see him turn on his patented 'Textbook George' kick I imagine it's the few years he spent on crutches, kind of lost and humbled, where he found his character and inner strength that helps him finish races so strong.
These Running With the Boys preview clips on Youtube still get me hype.
Watch full episodes of our five-part docuseries 'NAU: Running With The Boys': https://bit.ly/37CxGvOCheck out this clip from episode one 'Carrying The Torch'...
Pretty crazy stuff to think that at the time this was the 8th fastest time in history. The venues for the first 7 times? Rome (2), Rieti, Oslo, Berlin (2), Helsinki. It's not bad.
Yeah, I was going through the top mile list the other day and noticed that every single one of the top 50 (even ones from like 40 years ago) was set at a meet that's still one of the big meets today, except Webb's record. 51 is Centro, who did his 3:49 at Jesuit High School in Portland. The only exception I think is Rieti, which I don't think is a big meet anymore (maybe I'm just forgetting or it has a different name tho). Crazy that he just went out and dropped that since it was the only mile around.
Edit my bookmark for the toplist was not updated, Centro is 55 now.
This post was edited 1 minute after it was posted.
Pretty crazy stuff to think that at the time this was the 8th fastest time in history. The venues for the first 7 times? Rome (2), Rieti, Oslo, Berlin (2), Helsinki. It's not bad.
Yeah, I was going through the top mile list the other day and noticed that every single one of the top 50 (even ones from like 40 years ago) was set at a meet that's still one of the big meets today, except Webb's record. 51 is Centro, who did his 3:49 at Jesuit High School in Portland. The only exception I think is Rieti, which I don't think is a big meet anymore (maybe I'm just forgetting or it has a different name tho). Crazy that he just went out and dropped that since it was the only mile around.
Edit my bookmark for the toplist was not updated, Centro is 55 now.
Well sadly Helsinki is gone too - that was always one of the best meets and best places to run on the planet (good air, great stadium). Rieti doesn't exist either which is also a huge shame. Stadio Raul Guidobaldi was once unofficially known as the mecca of middle distance when Sandro Giovanelli would stop at nothing to get the best 8,15 and 3000m runners on the planet to the meeting no matter what.
Check out this cool little blurb on the meet written by Cram in 2011
