2:06.50 Marathoner lives in poverty!

Wineturtle, sorry for all the misspelled words...only one cup of coffee this morning! Yeah, I'm training now, so my intake of caffine has increased from zip to 2 cuppa's.

Morning Patti,

Wish I could go for a run with you but have health issues that make an 880 yard(I'm slow to go metric)walk an ultra for me.But the beer and chowda do sound good! I 'member a work out of yours that was published --ran an easy(?)8 in the A.M. then a ladder of a couple of sets of 440-660-880-1100-1320-mile and finish off with a 5 min mile.....up Heartbreak Hill!!!!!It stuck in my mind 'cause I never broke 5 mins for the mile(Twas a slow sprinter/team mgr type)

Funny thread going on about toe nails falling off and I started a thread on when the record was 2:27:33.

Hope to speak with you guys soon!!!

Thanks for the help guys. I will e-mail him a couple of leads. Keep the offers coming, and thanks again.

is this patti c?

Yes, it's Patti C.

Is that ok?

Sorry if it's not, but yeah, it's me. Hi jimfarmer!

ghost,

thanks for posting this info. My track coach Travis Dunbar is a good friend of Belayneh but lost contact with him when Belaynah moved. I showed the post to my coach and he says that he can probably get Belaynah a job coaching at Bates College and that the State of Maine or the College will pay for his expenses(I am not sure which, I am just going off of what my coach says). If you could contact me, and provide me with either your or Belayneh's phone or email that would be GREATLY appreciate. Mention my coach's name to Belayneh. Belayneh should remember him.

Unfortunately, he needs to learn "American" language....also know as English without a thick choppy accent. If you live here, you need to speak the language. Get the guy in some language classes.....he nay be the greatest guy on earth......but you are useless if there are no communication skills. Good luck!

he has charisma

the Truth! wrote:

Unfortunately, he needs to learn "American" language....also know as English without a thick choppy accent. If you live here, you need to speak the language. Get the guy in some language classes.....he nay be the greatest guy on earth......but you are useless if there are no communication skills. Good luck!

Boy, I don't know what you mean by "American". But again maybe you have you never been to one of those science/engineering schools in California? I am talking about Berkeley or UCSD etc. where the professors communicating skills is the least needed as opposed to their credentials as well as past performances. Further, if you look at our history, especially WWII, the scientists who helped build the atomic bomb came to the US from Europe mainly from Germany and got their jobs without being first asked to be perfect in English.

Granted, it is a must that we all need to learn a new language if we were to live and work in a different country other than our own. But having a talented person with superb credentials like Densamo, it should be considered a godsend to us should we had to see our next long distance runners at East African levels.

But, seeing from the disscussions above, this thread seem to create attention in favor of B Densamo. Hope to see him soon at national level.

If he went to Maine it could be funny I can't understand some of the people there.

he should come down to new york

Good point Thalita!

As to B Densamo, this is a good lesson for mainly for the young runners that running in itself wouldn't guarantee to be a full-fledged profession to last a lifetime. Sure people like Geb and a few others could take this running thing as far as they could and in the process earn good living wage. But for the rest us (who aren't in the pedgree of Geb) running activities should be supported by some actual professions of the mind or sorts that could bring us financial support for the long haul.

It sadns me to see a talented person such as Densamo who held Marathon WR for a decade is now live with his family in dire need, in our own backyard! That is lamentable!

and Peter Gilmore thinks he deserves to make money with his 2'17......................keep dreaming or get a job.

be warned, ghost has a bit of a reputation for talking a load of shit on these letsrun threads so take whatever he says with a pinch of salt, things may be not quite as he says

NM son you are a stupid Ahole who does not knows EDDY H. he is Fuc.. rich , and has never worked in his live.

His wife Shawn inherid tons of money and loves to support EDDY . HE playes golf everyday and is retired at the age of 44 .YOU mister NM son are poor and not happy and will work untill you to fuc... old to enjoy to be retired.

EDDY and his wife has lots of $$$ that's why he bought lot of me!!!!!

ghost,

A reputable source wants to contact you about this issue but wants to use me as an intermediary. Please email me at the address above.

Wejo ----Any update on how he is doing?Prompted by the obscure distance runner thread.

wejo wrote:

ghost,

A reputable source wants to contact you about this issue but wants to use me as an intermediary. Please email me at the address above.

Why don't we just go out of our way to help out Mike Tyson and MC Hammer? Clearly this guy mishandled his money and lacks skills necessary to get a well-paying job in the United States. While I feel a little sorry for him, we have over a million AMERCIANS that we have to help out first. There was a story on the news about a year ago regarding a veteran of the Iraq war living in his car. I think someone who puts his life in danger for his country deserves some help first. What about all the people who lost everything they owned last year in any of the two dozen named storms that his the country? Don't you think an American whose house was destroyed in Katrina deserves a shot at a job before a foreinger who had money as a professional athlete, mishandled it, and now is struggling?