stick with eharmony wrote:
How many international championship medals does rupp have? How about mottram?
/thread
It's 0 and 1. Rupp's got at least 3 more championship cracks. Mottram got his medal in one of the weakest 5ks in recent memory, 2007 may be slightly weaker but not by much. Mottram and Teg are pretty much the same guy, one just got lucky to nab bronze and one just missed. Everyone would agree Rupp is light years ahead of Teg.
Dennis Reynolds wrote:
stick with eharmony wrote:How many international championship medals does rupp have? How about mottram?
/thread
It's 0 and 1. Rupp's got at least 3 more championship cracks. Mottram got his medal in one of the weakest 5ks in recent memory, 2007 may be slightly weaker but not by much. Mottram and Teg are pretty much the same guy, one just got lucky to nab bronze and one just missed. Everyone would agree Rupp is light years ahead of Teg.
Really, everybody? Wasn't there a thread that showed Teg is better than Rupp?
Lol, a troll thread that argued that Teg was better than Rupp. I'm sure that even the OP of that thread and you don't believe Teg is or was better than Rupp is now, so yes, "everybody."
Teg has a faster 5000 PR than Rupp and has done better in international championships.
Teg has a 4th at a World Championship at 5000m and finished 3rd in the World Cup.
He's made two WC finals and an Olympic final at the 5000.
Rupp is slower and has made only one major final at 5000m, finishing 9th.
Teg is clearly more accomplished than Rupp in the 5000.
Giant Johnson wrote:
What is the point of this thread?
Dunno, but it's got to three pages. Seems anything to do with this Rupp fella goes ballistic here on LR and it'll go hyper ballistic if he bombs at OG's.
Mottram 2 miles and under, Rupp 5k and above.
Not sure why the OP is so sore about Rupp though.
Craig Mottram has the faster 5k, runs ballsy races, is witty, charismatic, tall, handsome and has a cool accent...
I mean check out homey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN_ygXH26Mw
Rupp has none of these...
END OF THREAD
Craig,
Get off the damn boards & get back to your workout.
Trollist wrote:
More like 7:29.high-7:30.low
Perhaps more importantly, he won the race. Mottram also has wins at 3000m and 5000m in what are now major Diamond League events.
Nope, 7:27 is a good conversion for Mottram's 2 mile.
SPMBLNPF wrote:
SPMBINPF. wrote:You are a festering pool of excrement.
The guy just recently ran a PR in the 5,000, at the START of his season, and you write that he is not still improving?
You are clearly the dumbest cluck on this board.
It's fascinating that you feel this way and yet every time I choose a name on here, you actually attempt to use the same name, which is what most people do when they have a man crush on somebody, or else they idolize somebody.
To the point. Galen ran a 12:58.90 at the Pre Classic, and it is possibly the fastest 5000m that he'll ever run, and his ceiling is 12:55, as I've mentioned before. I do know ceilings. Galen is NOT improving, OK. Why the hostility?
Because your a festering pool of sewage with your constant Rupp bashing nonsense. You are proven wrong relentlessly and yet you have this d-bag desire to come back again and again and post threads to detract from the guys excellence. You promise to leave, and then you come back.
Just leave, already.
The OP is a genius the way he plays you like a fiddle. It is funny every time.
PrefontRupp wrote:
Galen ran 12:58.9 at PRE which wasn't the best conditions. If He ran in Paris he could of probably broke the AR if not sub 12:50.
2. Isaiah Kiplangat KOECH KEN 12:57.63 (12:48.64 Paris)
3. Galen RUPP USA 12:58.90
4. Kenenisa BEKELE ETH 13:01.48 (12:55.79 Paris)
5. Thomas Pkemei LONGOSIWA KEN 13:03.88 (12:49.04 Paris)
6. John KIPKOECH KEN 13:06.71 (12:49.5 Paris)
7. Yenew ALAMIREW ETH 13:06.84 (12:48.77 Paris)
10. Albert ROP KEN 13:12.47 (13:01.91 Heusden- Zolder)
11. David Kiprotich BETT KEN 13:21.35 (13:09.84 Rabat)
You might be the most moronic poster here. You cannot decide that Rupp can run incredibly fast just because others can. Those guys are more talented. You think some of them got excited to run in Eugene? NO, Galen did, but they didn't. The other guy who trains in Eugene destroyed Galen on the last lap.
ventolin^3 wrote:
rupp has possible prelim line of fit ~
3'32.9
4'49.1
7'24.9
12'44.9
26'33.6
Galen Rupp will NEVER run any of the above times, and this is obvious to the intelligent. Galen CANNOT come close to running any of the above, so it is sad that you place undue pressure on a runner who is not talented enough to run that fast. Very few have been after all.
toro wrote:
OK. You started a thread that says Mottram was a better 5000m runner than Rupp.
Well done.
Well, with all the moronic talk of Rupp running 12:45, it is time for the intelligent to point out the obvious, and for your sake, I hope you're one of the intelligent, and yet the evidence seems scant.
michael furey wrote:
Trollist wrote:More like 7:29.high-7:30.low
Perhaps more importantly, he won the race. Mottram also has wins at 3000m and 5000m in what are now major Diamond League events.
Nope, 7:27 is a good conversion for Mottram's 2 mile.
I'll give you that I was wrong in my conversion, but it's not 7:27.
The PhDs give it a solid 7:29.
Trollist wrote:
michael furey wrote:Nope, 7:27 is a good conversion for Mottram's 2 mile.
I'll give you that I was wrong in my conversion, but it's not 7:27.
The PhDs give it a solid 7:29.
Still wrong. Standard 1.0797 (more accurate than 1.08) conversion gives 7:27.81
SPMBLNPF wrote:
toro wrote:OK. You started a thread that says Mottram was a better 5000m runner than Rupp.
Well done.
Well, with all the moronic talk of Rupp running 12:45, it is time for the intelligent to point out the obvious, and for your sake, I hope you're one of the intelligent, and yet the evidence seems scant.
Also wanted to point out that every one of your posts is EXACTLY THE F---ING SAME! WORST TROLL EVER. At least be creative about it, this is just annoying and obvious. Not worthy of letsrun, where trolls actually use their brains.
Mottram's not likely to pr again at any of those distances, though he is a solid 13:16 runner now, which is a step up from the injury years, but Rupp's in his best year right now and likely to drop his times significantly. If you took out most of Mottram's best year, how would the comparison look? This comparison needs to wait several years.
Any proof that Rupp's limit is 12:55 and he is on the decline now or is it just your "gut feeling"? Here's some facts for you:
Rupp 5000m SB
2007 - 13:30
2008 - Did not run
2009 - Did not run
2010 - 13:07
2011 - 13:06
2012 - 12:58
Looks like solid progression to me. 12:50 or better is not unreasonable, espescially given the cirsumstances of the 12:58 and who he beat in that race.
Galen Rupp Will NOT Break 13 Minutes at Pre
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Galen Rupp Will NOT Break 13 Minutes at Pre