I don’t care if you are the guy from “Over the Top” that chugs motor oil before a match, Hassan Mead is tougher than you. I don’t care if you are Chong Li from Blood Sport, Hassan Mead is tougher than you. I don’t care if you are Malibu, Hassan Mead is tougher than you.
Hassan Mead is the best high school distance runner in the state of Minnesota. Hassan Mead won the Roy Griak Invitational with a time of 15:48 for 3.1 miles. This is impressive, because he ran pretty fast, but it is more impressive because he could not eat or drink before or after the race. (Hassan finished 4th at the High School national championships, also impressive) Mead is a Muslim, and it was the Holy Month of Ramadan. This means that Hassan did not eat or drink from sunrise to sunset for 30 straight days. Have you ever run three miles in under 16 minutes, and if so, have you done so on an empty stomach and not ingested water following the race? I bet you haven’t, and that makes you less tough than Hassan Mead.
This dude would run up to 15 miles a day and around 70 miles a week without eating or drinking between sunrise and sunset. I won’t finish typing this article without slamming a bear claw and a milkshake, so I am pretty damn impressed with this kid. If we ever except to beat those pesky Kenyans in the distance events in the Olympics, we need more people to convert to Islam, or at least celebrate Ramadan. Apparently you have to be very hungry to run fast. If that Sally Struthers is successful, America’s Muslim runners may win every track and field medal in 2012.
The Angry T
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