This just in. Galen Rupp, in a peripatetic quest for the ‘perfect storm,’ has jetted to Batavia Illinois to attempt to break Meb Keflezighi’s American 10,000 record at the inaugural Higgs Boson Distance Classic on Sunday. Meet promoters have guaranteed perfect conditions at the newly renovated Fermilab Tevitron Field – a climate controlled, pollen free track and field facility.
First he'll be pampered like a Queen on Saturday at the Hotel Monaco in Chicago, renowned for its ‘Divine Diva Package’, and a luxurious pre-race regimen of facial, massage, pedicure, manicure, and Vajazzle. Then off to Tevitron Field on Sunday morning in the comfort of a hand-crafted Volkner Mobil Recreational Vehicle. Once in Fermilab he’ll be escorted to the start by a gaggle of flaxen-haired maidens adorned in wreaths of specially-bred pollen-free heather and silken linens.
We wish you the best, Galen. “Champagne wishes and caviar dreams."
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“The fact is there is first and there is ‘not first’. Nobody is second. Nobody is third. You’re either first, or it doesn’t matter where you finish.” said his increasingly eccentric coach.
“I’ve seen this thing evolve from a small altitude house to this gigantic machine. I must say it’s quite incredible.”