Abdi and Lagat training together in Flagstaff : Speakers & Interviews

What about Stanford's Jake Riley (Sehome WA)?
Also, hasn't UW's Bywater (Lake Stevens WA) been just about as impressive as Prentice?

The case I was trying to make is that Abdi does some things that pretty aggressively conflict with the Islamic religion that can't just be set aside as "human errors" which make his claim to the religion at least a little questionable. Doesn't take anything away from him as a runner, he's still the greatest 10k runner the US has to offer. Since the question was asked concerning his religion I thought this piece of information needed to be said.

Also, Islam is not as laxed as Christianity is in terms of how closely you have to follow the religion. For example, you can't go to heaven simply by professing to Allah that there is only one God and that that God is Allah and that Muhammad is his messenger (contrasting to the accepting Jesus as your savior in Christianity). You must also do all the necessary "works" that define a Muslim i.e pray 5 times a day, practice abstinance until marriage and abstain from alcohol indulgence to name a few. Apologize for the religious crash course but its necessary to get my point across.

So only Mary was actually part of the Christian religion because she is the only one without sin?? And everyone else even the popes just considered themselves part of it?? I dont understand your logic...

i know this has already been responded to, but comon Jon, he's probably doing the best, along w/ Mason McHenry (with Ryan Prentice in tow) of any WA distance athlete in the last 5 years.

oh well i guess i based that statement cause i hadnt heard anythin about him so i thought that. no disrespect to him. i agree he's a good runner, im glad to here that he's runnin well

yea you're right, he hasn't done much. Only had a 10 second PR in the 1500m this year, ran 4:03xx indoors and won every 1500m race he's been in until the Pac10s which he closed the last 400m in 52 (like 2 or three other OK runners did in the same race). He hasn't done much at all...

...good question. He's alot smaller than one would guess.

I'm 5'11" and a half. He's alot shorter than me. So I guess about 5"8".
His USATF Bio says 5'11" - but I think that's inflated like the heights and weights on a football roster.

kinda a off question but how tall is abdi?

Abdi Hassan is a redshirt freshman in terms of eligbility

true statement. he's ran some stellar times in HS but hasnt done too much yet. i think he's a soph though in college not a freshman

Oh sweet sassy molassy! A workout Wednesday with either Abdi OR Lagat would be the coolest thing ever.

Hey Ryan where are you, im waiting to leave.... (This is what you were doing, right?

Workout Wednesday with BERNARD LAGAT?!

considering yourself as part of a religion and being a part of a religion can be completely different things. Know it all was saying that he may consider himself a muslim, but by his actions he shows he is not.

whats your point? you dont have to follow a religion word for word to consider yourself part of that religion.

You know who else trains with them? Abdi Hassan, only a RS freshman from UA who is doing big things this year. Expect great things from him as the season progresses.

Abdi will most likely tell you that he is Muslim if you ask him though his actions may not back up that statement. For example, the Islamic religion does not allow the consumption of alcohol. Any individual who follows distance running even a little closely will tell you that Abdi likes to have a good time and will go to great lengths to do so... including consuming alcohol.

What does it matter?

anyone know if abdi is muslim? i know bernard is not.