The Brooks Run Guide Interviews, Waleed Suliman’s Most Excellent Adventures from 1,500m to 50k! Stories from Waleed!

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)
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 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.runblogrun.com/2025/12/the-brooks-run-guide-interviews-episodes-1-10-fall-winter-2025.html?swcfpc=1

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