“Don’t be with the mud!”
Lynn Jennings has won nine US cross country championships and won three World Athletics Cross Country gold medals, plus an Olympic bronze in the 10,000m.
Lynn Jennings is one of the greatest American distance runners of all time. From 1986 to 1993, Lin did not miss a World Championship, winning in 1990, 1991 and 1992.
Lin’s prowess overseas has earned him nine US titles; no one has come close to it. And Lynn Jennings was a racer, a fierce racer who could trail, lead and knew how to race internationally. I remember him winning the 3000m 3000m at the WA Indoors (bronze in 1993 and silver in 1995).
In cross country and the 10,000 meters, Lynn Jennings was a sight to behold. Lynn won the 1992 World Cross Country in Franklin Park, Massachusetts. In the snow and against a world field that was hot, hot, hot, Lynn Jennings took her third consecutive World Cross-Country gold in front of her home crowd. In fact, Lynn Jennings won several high school titles at this very park.
In 1992 in Barcelona, ​​Lynn Jennings won the bronze medal in the 10,000 meters, setting an AR of 31:19.86, which she maintained until 2002.
The quote “Be one with the mud” is from Lynn Jennings. I think it was from a 1987 Runner’s World story. I was at Runner’s World at the time and we did our first calendar featuring Lynn Jennings and some other amazing cross country shooters.
Only two other women have equaled Lynn Jennings’ three golds. Only the late, great Grete Weitz (Norway) and Edith Masai (Kenya) have equaled the feat.
Lynn Jennings took her running skills to sculling, winning a gold medal in 2012 and a silver medal in 2011. An accomplished historian, you can read his works if you request them here: https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/dsp01rx913r15v .
I miss seeing Lynn Jennings at courses around the world.
Will you be like Lynn Jennings?
