by Larry Eder
RunBlogRun presents
Brooks Run Guide Interviews
with Waleed Suliman
Member of the
Brooks Beasts Track Club
Episode 8
December 22, 2025
This is a rerun and a repost.
Brooks asks that we rename the series the Brooks Run Guide and Waleed was the first test (new links, the whole kabosh).
In watching the interview a second time, some new discussions came to mind that we thought you just might enjoy seeing
pointed out!
- Waleed Suliman went to Ole Miss in college, where he learned what ‘purposeful training’ was all about.
- Under Danny Mackey, Waleed focuses on the 1,500 meter during outdoors and the 3,000 meters indoors.
- In high school, Waleed started as a soccer player, then moved to running.
- His first love in running? Cross-country!
- In high school in Virginia, Waleed had a meet they called the #PolarBear Meet!
- Running in high school was pretty low mileage.
- In high school, Waleed ran 4:04 for the 1600meters/Mile, and 1:49 for the 800 meters
- Waleed studies History and Arabic Studies in college
- Waleed was born in Jordan and speaks fluent Arabic
- His parents were support of his sports, but school always came first
- Waleed has a great sense of humor and loves to travel
- He celebrated the end of 2025 season by running a trail 50 kilometer race, that is 33 times his normal race distance!
- Waleed Suliman’s Outdoor personal bests: 3:33.82 for 1,500 meters (2024), 3:51.86 for One Mile (2024), 1:47 for the 800 meters (2021)
- Waleed Suliman’s Indoor personal bests: 7:39.39 for 3000 meters (2025), and 3:55.60 for One Mile (2021)
- Waleed Suliman’s cross-country and trail personal bests: 29:57.0 for 10,000m XC (2018), waiting on time for 50 kilometer trail (2025)
- Enjoy the interview!
- Thanks to Waleed Suliman for his sense of humor, time and love of the sport!
- Thanks to Brooks Sports Marketing for the interview series!
Learn more about The Brooks Beasts Track club here: https://www.brooksrunning.com/en_us/athletes/teams/brooks-beasts/
Learn more about Brooks Running at www.brooksrunning.com
To view the #BrooksRunGuide Interview series:
The Brooks Run Guide Interviews 1-10 (Danny Mackey, Brandon Miller, Jaelyn Williams, Kayley DeLay, Sadie Engelhardt, Anna Gibson, Isaac Benjamin, Gary Martin, Waleed Suliman, Julian Florez, Keith, and Kevin Hanson). https://www.
To enjoy back issues of the BROOKS Coaching newsletter;
Back Issues of The BROOKS Run Guide, The BROOKS Coaching Newsletters, Issues 1-12. Here’s the link: https://www.runblogrun.
