Rupp on distance running: "it's boring as hell" New interview before Chicago

mindweak wrote:

its only boring cause introvert no social skills people like rupp cant find anything else to do.

KB has his hotel and track business, kipchoge has a family and his crew of runners, and lots of other kenyans have farms and sh*t like that. what the f*ck does rupp do?

i predict his wife leaves him in the next 4 yrs

You do know he has 3 kids right? Just like Kipchoge. And why would his wife leave him? They've already been married for 7 years.

yeah i do, and i noticed he didnt say anything about doing "daddy" duties.

sounds to me all he does is run, sleep, eat, run sleep eat, and look like a down syndrome asperger's syndrome no social skills nerd.

why would his wife leave him? why would any women leave some guy?

he is boring, once the kids are old enough that 2 people arnt needed to raise them, boooom ruppy is out and pays fatty child support and alimony.

how fun do you think it would be to be married to some one like rupp? how many girls think he is attractive? then toss in the awkward social skills, the lack of him doing much of parenting as it sounds and he his running career is not on the upswing anymore. he isnt marketable, he sucks at talking, he isnt stylish, what does he have to fall on after his 2:09s are all used up?

what degree did he get from OU? my guess is he will get some low budget gig at nike or OU, and yes i see his wife leaving him in 4 years. bump this thread when she does

yeah and kipchoge talks about being a father and husband and all that and having his "crew" look up to him. sounds like he is pretty busy with the rest of his 14 hrs of the day

Literally what in the world are you talking about? Did Rupp beat you in some race back in high school and you've never gotten over it?

Have you not noticed that Rupp doesn't travel to training camps all over anymore? That's because he stays at home with his kids. Mo on the other hand, flies all around the world and is not home for months at a time.

He is taking for granted his God-given talent. Would he prefer being injured?

I wish he would have been more careful with his comments. Yes it's true that some runs are not as rewarding as others but we should always be thankful that we can do them!

29% of Americans are tatted up wrote:

He is taking for granted his God-given talent. Would he prefer being injured?

I wish he would have been more careful with his comments. Yes it's true that some runs are not as rewarding as others but we should always be thankful that we can do them!

Exactly. 👏👏👏

in the context, i think a better word would have been "mundane". i don't believe rupp is implying that he is bored, which in modern vernacular generally carries a negative connotation. i think what he is saying is that, to the outsider, that kind of life is extremely repetitive.

from my perspective, rupp seems to love that lifestyle.

i think you are wrong

rupp never got to have a "normal" american hs and college life.

sal has been giving him the androgel rub downs with happy endings since 16, one on one coaching with very little interaction from anyone. anyone who has come to the "fold" was basically just a pacer for rupp as all things were geared for rupp to be the MAN. you think that made webb, ritz, levins, etc etc etc happy? that they were just tackling dummies for ruppy poop

then in college he also trained just one on one with sal, very little "team" interaction, yes he was good but do you think people on the team dispised that special treatment and "rupp is more important that you guys so f*ck off" scenario going on?

not only is he a super nerd aspergers syndrome no social skills etc, but sal kept him alone, and that made him alienated from making any true friends in his young 20s.

all he knows is running and training and living as sals personal lab rat. 16 to 31...15 years of being alone with sal, kinda like an over protective mom. when you say he is implying his life is "mundane"

"lacking interest or excitement; dull."

you are spot on, his life is dull and he never got to experience any of the fun things that others did in america. this life style isnt that bad for east africans, but this next generation it will be. now days people need wastebook, instalame, fapchat, etc to feel like their lives have meaning.

rupp is bored cause his life has been mundane, and yes i think his wife will leave him in 4 years or so

mindweak wrote:

sounds to me all he does is run, sleep, eat, run sleep eat, and look like a down syndrome asperger's syndrome no social skills nerd.

^ Unless you are in middle school, this comment reveals MUCH more about you than it does about Galen Rupp.

If his wife does end up leaving him, I'd like to think that he would hook up with Jordan Hasay and produce the best American marathoner(s) ever.

Is some of this "boring" stuff because he doesn't have a big group to train with?

I mean much of the fun of running is being able to do it with other people (even hard workouts).

Not that Rupp hasn't earned his accolades, but I think 99% of the rest of us can guarantee that our job is more boring than Rupp's. He has no perspective.

they call what rupp has "white privilege" bro

I think Rupp once took mindweak's mom out on a date and never called her back.

lol

10/10!

lucky ducky wrote:

I think Rupp once took mindweak's mom out on a date and never called her back.

That would explain a lot

29% of Americans are tatted up wrote:

He is taking for granted his God-given talent. Would he prefer being injured?

I wish he would have been more careful with his comments. Yes it's true that some runs are not as rewarding as others but we should always be thankful that we can do them!

Yep, I would give anything to be able to run 130 mpw right now. Injuries have never let me get near that though.

“It’s boring as hell. You get up early, go run, stretch, take care of all the little things, then you go to sleep, wake up and do it again—day after day.”

That looks like he runs just once a day.

nice what a dueche, one run a day, and then lazily slouches around his house till bed time? what a loser. get off your a$$ ruppy poop and go do something