What were author Nicholas Spark's best times while he was still running competitively?
Nicholas Spark's PRs
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He was pretty quick, considerably sub 30 for 10k. He actually wrote "The Notebook" while recovering from a stress fracture.
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I thought he was primarily an 800 - mile runner? Specific times please...
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He talks about running the 800 at Notre Dame in his memiors. I can't remember if he said any specific time. I know he was injured a lot and that he was on the 4x800 team that set some records.
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1:52 & 4:18 in high school:
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I was actually a teammate of his for a year or two, though I doubt he would remember me (I was one of the Back-Of-The-"B"-Group people, basically trying not to get kicked off the team). He was fighting a bunch of injuries at the time that really derailed his college running career. I think I still have one of the ND media guides that lists times he ran. I'll see if I can find it tonight.
Nice guy, by the way.
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Ruff wrote:
I thought he was primarily an 800 - mile runner? Specific times please...
Might be thinking of Ken Sparks,Phd. Wrote a training book.
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From his official biography:
Nicholas Sparks – FORMAL BIOGRAPHY
Nicholas Charles Sparks was born in Omaha, Nebraska, on December 31, 1965, the second son
of Patrick Michael (1942-1996) and Jill Emma Marie (Thoene) Sparks (1942-1989). His siblings
are Michael Earl Sparks (b. Dec. 1964), and Danielle Sparks (December 1966 - June 2000). As a
child, he lived in Minnesota, Los Angeles, and Grand Island, Nebraska, finally settling in Fair
Oaks, California, at the age of eight. His father was a professor, his mother a homemaker, then
an optometrist’s assistant. He lived in Fair Oaks through high school, graduated valedictorian in
1984, and received a full track scholarship to the University of Notre Dame.
After breaking the Notre Dame school record as part of a relay team in 1985 as a freshman (a
record which still stands), he was injured and spent the summer recovering. During that summer,
he wrote his first novel, though it was never published. . .
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