P. Diddy Named USATF Athlete of the Week

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P. Diddy Named USATF Athlete of the Week

Unread postby rainbowgirl28 » Tue Nov 04, 2003 6:44 pm

No this is not a joke :dazed:

http://www.usatf.org/news/showRelease.a ... -11-04.xml

Is this a sign of the end times? :eek: :P

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Unread postby jhesch » Tue Nov 04, 2003 9:36 pm

hmmm....kinda interesting. seems he mustv'e worked somew3hat hard to train for a marathon in only two months. from my running knowledge (decent by the way, i used to run and my bro is in top five in state in cross country, learn stuff from him, etc.), that seems like a pretty good accomplishment, a whole marathon with only two months training but who knows.

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Unread postby PVJunkie » Tue Nov 04, 2003 10:58 pm

I would agree. I dont think 2 months training is quite enough to run a marathon. At least without a little walkin in there somewhere
Maybe the USATF needs to test him.................THG :eek: ???

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Unread postby Skyin' Brian » Tue Nov 04, 2003 11:04 pm

yeah, he beat my brother's time from when he ran the marine corps marathon a couple of weeks ago. my brother is like can run 3 miles in well under 17 still but way undertrained for his marathon(he was running only about 2times per week although one was usually over 10 miles and then a couple of weeks before the marathon he started going to wrestling practice and not running) he cruised through the first half of his marathon in a nice pace of 1hour 50 min. then started to cramp had to stop a couple of times to stretch. ended up in finishing in about 4:30. he ran the thing in a pair of shoes that he had been training in as well as wearing around. hopefully he didnt mess up his feet too much.

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Unread postby rainbowgirl28 » Tue Nov 04, 2003 11:24 pm

PVJunkie wrote:I would agree. I dont think 2 months training is quite enough to run a marathon. At least without a little walkin in there somewhere
Maybe the USATF needs to test him.................THG :eek: ???


Yeah somehow I doubt he would pass a drug test :P

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Unread postby theflyingkorean » Tue Nov 04, 2003 11:48 pm

Hey! If youw atch MTV, they had a whole one hour special on him and his training. He defidentaly has the money to buy the best trainers ;)

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Unread postby opalkak » Mon Nov 10, 2003 11:51 pm

I think this is pretty cool. Our sport needs all the positive publicity it can get right now. And to see an individual like P-Diddy do something to encourage children to get out and participate in athletics, is a great thing.
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Unread postby Vaulterchick88 » Thu Nov 13, 2003 8:32 pm

i think the whole thing is being blown out of porportion, i mean it's great that he's doing it but it seems like a big publicity stunt. i dunno maybe that's just me.
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Unread postby rainbowgirl28 » Thu Nov 13, 2003 8:47 pm

Vaulterchick88 wrote: a big publicity stunt


I think it is. I guess it is good that it brought attention to running, but I think he benefited more than anybody else.

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Unread postby Skyin' Brian » Thu Nov 13, 2003 10:57 pm

just remember. he did it for charity

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Unread postby bjvando » Sun Nov 16, 2003 12:32 am

i belive the total amount was over 2 million. Not sure how much he actually gave to charity, but the number was 2 million.
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Unread postby Lord of the Poles » Sun Nov 16, 2003 1:31 pm

I don't care why he did it...I still don't think he deserved the honor of this Athlete of the Week thing...he's NOT an athlete...he just decided to run a few times...big whoops, that's not a defintion of an athlete according to me...


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