TRACK & FIELD
TIME ON HIS SIDE
The clock never lies in track and field, something that Mohammed Ahmed used to realize his Olympic dream
W BY MIKE LUCAS • UWBADGERS.COM
hile it might be the cliché thing to say about Mo- hammed Ahmed — that the UW's record-setting distance runner is "on the clock'' for the 2012 summer Olympics — it would not be accurate from the perspective that Ahmed rarely pays at- tention to the clock, any clock, when he's racing.
That's what Ahmed was doing last Sunday in Palo Alto, Calif. — he was racing to a personal best clocking in the 10,000 meters; a school-record 27 minutes, 34.64 seconds. It was not only the sixth fastest 10,000 me- ters in the world this year, but well under the Olympic "A" qualifying standard.
Not that he knew that he was on pace to do anything that special. "He had no clue,'' said Wisconsin coach Mick Byrne. "I had no clue,'' Ahmed confirmed.
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