Or maybe in order to have Rupp able to bounce back from a hypothermic day he needed a magic cocktail to bounce back so quickly. No sense alerting USADA.
Or maybe in order to have Rupp able to bounce back from a hypothermic day he needed a magic cocktail to bounce back so quickly. No sense alerting USADA.
Banana Bread wrote:
Maybe he will redeem himself after Boston and be a 2:09 guy again.
A 2:09 guy like Bekele?
Nonregistered56 wrote:
Did anyone of you thought that the reason why NOP was not making any statements it that they were actually waiting for the Abbott World Marathon Majors to approve Rupp entry in Prague?
It is very unusual for somebody to DNF a major just to hop into IAAF Gold Label Race (Prague Marathon) two weeks later. They needed an exception for Rupp and it was only granted this week.
This the truth.
haha letsrun at it again
Ahh, like kenny? wrote:
Banana Bread wrote:
Maybe he will redeem himself after Boston and be a 2:09 guy again.
A 2:09 guy like Bekele?
When has Bekele done a 2:09. Even his worst experience on a hot day with the fastest ever start, and with feeling bad on the day, he held on for sub 2:09. He probably would have gotten the world record if he negative split the race. He already is a 2:03 guy, but really is a 2:02 guy, he just needs better luck next time.
There was a sculptor. He found this stone, a special stone. He dragged it home and he worked on it for months until he finally finished it. When he was ready he showed it to his friends. They said he had created a great masterpiece, but the sculptor said he hadn't created anything. The statue was always there, he just chipped away the rough edges. Bekele already is a 2:02 guy, once you polish away all the bad luck, he will prove it.
Banana Bread wrote:
Ahh, like kenny? wrote:
A 2:09 guy like Bekele?
When has Bekele done a 2:09. Even his worst experience on a hot day with the fastest ever start, and with feeling bad on the day, he held on for sub 2:09. He probably would have gotten the world record if he negative split the race. He already is a 2:03 guy, but really is a 2:02 guy, he just needs better luck next time.
There was a sculptor. He found this stone, a special stone. He dragged it home and he worked on it for months until he finally finished it. When he was ready he showed it to his friends. They said he had created a great masterpiece, but the sculptor said he hadn't created anything. The statue was always there, he just chipped away the rough edges. Bekele already is a 2:02 guy, once you polish away all the bad luck, he will prove it.
2:08.53. That's pretty much 2:09. 2:09 is what Rupp ran in 90 degrees.
They're calling for 71 degrees for May 6 in Prague. That's hotter than London. If Rupp runs faster than 2:08.53 then he is god.
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If Rupp goes out in 4:22 first mile, 13:48 5k etc., he will be lucky to break 2:20, that is if he doesn't DNF again. Bekele is better at negatively splitting. He is faster than evan Kipchoge. Not only on flat courses, but I think Bekele would dominate evan more on hilly courses like Boston or New York. After Bekele gets the world record, I recommend Boston and New York course records. He has proved from XC, Great Ireland Run and Great North Run that he can use them hills to dominate.
Banana Bread wrote:
If Rupp goes out in 4:22 first mile, 13:48 5k etc., he will be lucky to break 2:20, that is if he doesn't DNF again. Bekele is better at negatively splitting. He is faster than evan Kipchoge. Not only on flat courses, but I think Bekele would dominate evan more on hilly courses like Boston or New York. After Bekele gets the world record, I recommend Boston and New York course records. He has proved from XC, Great Ireland Run and Great North Run that he can use them hills to dominate.
I don't agree with most of your nonsense, including the rest of what you wrote above, but I do agree that Bekele would excel at unpaced races in NYC and Boston.
lol. The first mile or two in London are sweet downhills. I could run a 4:22 on those. The thing with London, even if you overcook a little, you know you don't have a single tiny hill to contend with after that. It's billiard table flat. Easy to hang on.
Ok so you agree with me that he will win Olympic Gold in the marathon in that case
Donyiyo wrote:
FFF wrote:
This isn't Gault's fault, or the fault of LR, or the fault of anyone other than Rupp, Salazar, and the NOP.
It's completely insane that a US athlete who is a multiple Olympic medal winner conducts himself in this manner. I can't actually think of any other sports personality who is as cryptic, and flaky, and just all-around weird as Rupp. If this incident stood alone, I wouldn't think this, but everything this guy does is just bizarre, especially when he's such a GREAT MARATHONER but is actually barely on the JV squad given how fast the rest of the world is running.
Please, someone, point at any other individual of this stature who behaves in this way. (And you can't have it both ways. If you say "it's just distance running, this is why we're a minor sport," then you admit that his medals aren't worth a whole lot.)
Well surprise surprise, yout got yourself a first one. Maybe he doesn’t care about attention? Maybe he has other priorities than bother what people think about him? Maybe you expect every athlete to be cookie cutter attention seeking freaks and if they are not you get bothered because they don’t conform to your needs? Please!
The whole point of sports and athletics in modern society is entertainment. Sorry I want my entertainers to be entertaining.
One more thing, now that it seems Rupp really is going to run this, it says two things:
1) His DNF in Boston was for exactly the reason they specified
2) His training must really be as great as they say it has been
There is just no other way he would try to run another marathon without those two reasons being true.
Given that, he will win Prague. My money would be on Rupp dropping anyone he is with around 38km and I think it will be due to his long history of high performance 10000s on the track.
Rupp will likely win in 2:09, thus continuing the legend of Galen "2:09 guy" Rupp.
Nonregistered56 wrote:
Did anyone of you thought that the reason why NOP was not making any statements it that they were actually waiting for the Abbott World Marathon Majors to approve Rupp entry in Prague?
It is very unusual for somebody to DNF a major just to hop into IAAF Gold Label Race (Prague Marathon) two weeks later. They needed an exception for Rupp and it was only granted this week.
This the truth.
Kipsang just did it last fall, man.
Get better.
Well, I hope Rupp goes out with the pacers, runs a fast time, and wins so there is one less thing that letsrun can criticize him for.
But I'm being delusional, letsrun will still find fault in his effort even if eh knocks it out of the park.
vivalarepublica wrote:
Well, I hope Rupp goes out with the pacers, runs a fast time, and wins so there is one less thing that letsrun can criticize him for.
But I'm being delusional, letsrun will still find fault in his effort even if eh knocks it out of the park.
Are there actually pacers for this race?
They're calling for 71 degrees for May 6 in Prague. That's hotter than London. If Rupp runs faster than 2:08.53 then he is god.
71 is the high for the day. The race will likely be run in the mid-50s rising to the mid-60s.
I am guessing that they will have pacers on course record pace (2:05:39), since that is a pace that Rupp and Sisay Lemma can handle.
Here are the past winners. Seems like it's usually a 2:07-2:08 race.
Yep it was just anounced on the Oregon Project fb page. Yep thinking 2:07. Anyone else?
If its 70 degrees then no.
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