Pro spotting

"Mark Fennell" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Well, sort of.

Last night at our local Santa Barbara 5K evening running race, Roy Knickman shows up and does a
17:30. It's certainly not national class, but that seems like a respectable time for a ~40 year
old former bike racer.

Does anyone know of any high-level runners that crossed over to high-level bike racing, or vice
versa? (Besides Lance of course.) There used to be a good cat 1 in Northern California named
Benton Hart who had been a very fast 10K runner, like under 30:00.

Mark

Mike Engleman. He was a fairly successful long distance runner and then raced bikes in the US as a
pro for several years. He could not handle the riding in the pack very well and I am sure this
affected his results. I don't remember is he ever got his skills together enough to do well. He was
on some fairly high profile teams though, so there has to be some relatively easy to find history,
palmares or stories about him.

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"Mark Fennell" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Well, sort of.

Last night at our local Santa Barbara 5K evening running race, Roy Knickman shows up and does a
17:30. It's certainly not national class, but that seems like a respectable time for a ~40 year
old former bike racer.

Does anyone know of any high-level runners that crossed over to high-level bike racing, or vice
versa? (Besides Lance of course.) There used to be a good cat 1 in Northern California named
Benton Hart who had been a very fast 10K runner, like under 30:00.

Mark

Mike Engleman. He was a fairly successful long distance runner and then raced bikes in the US as a
pro for several years. He could not handle the riding in the pack very well and I am sure this
affected his results. I don't remember is he ever got his skills together enough to do well. He
was on some fairly high profile teams though, so there has to be some relatively easy to find
history, palmares or stories about him.

Inga Thompson (Benedict) too.

-WG

"Nick Burns" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Mike Engleman. He was a fairly successful long distance runner and then raced bikes in the US as a
pro for several years. He could not handle the riding in the pack very well and I am sure this
affected his results. I don't remember is he ever got his skills together enough to do well.

You've got your head up your ass.

Engleman won *a lot*.

"Kurgan Gringioni" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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"Nick Burns" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Mike Engleman. He was a fairly successful long distance runner and then raced bikes in the US as
a pro for several years. He could not handle

the

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riding in the pack very well and I am sure this affected his results. I don't remember is he
ever got his skills together enough to do well.

You've got your head up your ass.

Engleman won *a lot*.

I said I don't remeber. You use that "head up your ass" to cover a lot. Do you have anything to add
other than that?