Galen Rupp undergoes foot surgery, will miss 2019 spring marathon season

El Keniano wrote:

A TRUE Statement wrote:

This right here. The haters take this guy for granted

+3. What an ungrateful bunch.

I agree with the facts stated but I have a different take. Minus Rupp, US is awful at Marathons. US XC and T&F need to focus on tailoring training for sprinters, middle-distance runners, jumpers and throwers. The rest of US Marathoners are so far away from world class, it shows investing in long distance running in US is poor return on investment.

Changes needed: 1) US high school track & field, drop 1600m & 3200m. Add 1500m & 3000m.

2) Drop US high school 5000m XC. Add 3000m XC for boys and girls.

3) Drop college 6000m XC, 8000m XC and 10000m XC. Add 5000m XC for men and women.

US high school and college XC and T&F have been catering to desires of 5000m to Marathon runners. It's over for those events. US is too far behind in 5000m to Marathon to continue status quo.

If we did that we would miss tons of talent. We won’t always have a number one guy or gal but every 10 years or so one pops up. I can’t imagine not having Meb, Shalane, ritz, Rupp ect. We have had great success in the last olympics in long distance. We might go through a low for a few years but talent will eventually surface. I guarantee one of Mebs kids or one of Galen 4 kids will be a future Olympian. Bump this when it happens.

You put a lot of effort into making a crappy joke, your sender of humor is horrible.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot wrote:

rojo wrote:

What do Rojo and Galen Rupp have in common?

We've both had Achilles surgery done by Amol Saxena.

That being said, I'm pissed that Saxena threw me under bus. Initially, I thought his quote about Rupp's pain threshold left open the possibility that I have a higher pain threshold than Rupp (as I'm a non Olympian) but reading it again, I realize he's sayhing Rupp has the highest pain threshold of anyone - not just the Olympians.

I was hoping one could interpret that quote as , "I've treated almost 100 Olympians. He definitely has the highest pain threshold of any Olympian I've ever treated but there was a spare 2:23 marathoner who was even tougher," but that doesn't seem to be the case.

On a serious note…

You put a lot of effort into making a crappy joke, your sender of humor is horrible.

SENSE of humor, that is…

Silly take, completely overlooks the fact that we had two marathon medalists in recent history before Rupp's gray area TUE microdosing system. Those came out of the same high school system with a Team USA training center system that with appropriate investment (by non-Nike $$) focused on the marathon. It can be done, it has been done. Meaningful and appropriate incentive and support have to be there. Now the Japanese are outdoing us at that game.

4) Add the Ekiden to high school and collegiate programs.

rojo wrote:

Nah... wrote:

He’s toast.

Can people stop being so melodramatic and US biased?

Do people not realize Haile G had surgery all the time?

According to the NY Times, Haile G had Haglunds and had achilles surgery in November of 2000. While he never won another global title on the track, he was back competing and winning bronze at Worlds in early August.

According to the IAAF, Haile had another Achilles surgery in September of 2004. By the end of January of 2005, he was running and winning a half marathon in 61:46. It's true that he didn't run London that year due to Achilles issues but he won Amsterdam inthe fall in 2:06:20.

https://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/02/sports/track-and-field-gebrselassie-is-back-after-surgery.htmlhttps://www.iaaf.org/news/news/gebrselassie-undergoes-successful-achilles-ophttps://www.iaaf.org/news/news/gebrselassie-out-of-london-as-achilles-injury

Also: doped to the gills

do you even know track wrote:

do you even track wrote:

He’s already qualified under multiple criteria, and the Trials are in February. Come on, guys.

Fool. There is a time limit for qualifying for the OT trials. Are 2018 times allowed to qualify?

Yes, duh!

His tendon almost Rupptured.

His feet got Rupptured by the surgeons.

Now his career is Rupptured, despite many Galen-t performances.

He wants to have Mo, but there's just no Mo.

Is NOP also Rupptured now?

Dreaming of greatness

Is a mark of a Champion

Pushing to the edge

Of physical limits

An Achilles heel

For a select few

Go just a little too far

And it all falls apart

Rupptured

With hands and hearts of skill

Mending the heart, body, and soul

Through a long, rough road

Come 2020

We'll see who has the

RUPPer hand

I hope Galen's feet get so much better. The bump , the plantar problems anything wrong with them at all , gone forever.

Here is the best video I have ever found on the topic. If it's not Galen's thing, perhaps it will help someone else, maybe Jamin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMUA7dAtJlA

BraveyNation brought to you by Champion wrote:

Dreaming of greatness

Is a mark of a Champion

Pushing to the edge

Of physical limits

An Achilles heel

For a select few

Go just a little too far

And it all falls apart

Rupptured

With hands and hearts of skill

Mending the heart, body, and soul

Through a long, rough road

Come 2020

We'll see who has the

RUPPer hand

Well done Miss Pappas

Attention boys!

Y'all are just hypothyroid.

Rupptured thyroids means y'all gotta stick in that hypodermic needle.

Ryan Vail tried for the Olympics, but to no a-vail.

Ryan Hall tried for his medal, but he ain't in the Olympic Hall of Fame.

NOP, they forgot their hypothyroid medication and ended up failing.

Not all is ritzy-glitzy for Dathan Ritzenhein as he quit on us.

Sara Goucher got kinda grouchy as she snitched on us.

But our relationship with the gallant loyal Galen has never Rupptured.

Long live the Rupp, Nike's loyal puppy and Dr. Brown's favorite toy boy.

https://www.evolutionary.org/jeffrey-s-brown-the-unconventional-physician-of-us-track-and-field/

…..and the Dr. Jeffery S. Brown said, "He could have been my son".

musclessfitness wrote:

I did predict that Galen would struggle with injuries, but I don't know if I'm the one you're thinking off.

Anyhow ... this injury is not about shoes or bone structure.

Galen's problem is his form. Forefoot strike + pushing off the ground will contribute to all kinda feet/ankle/heel issues.

I'll have to make a video about this.

I have to admit, I'm guilty of pushing off the ground when I run. Does anyone have any advice on how to run without pushing off the ground?

Changes needed: 1) US high school track & field, drop 1600m & 3200m. Add 1500m & 3000m.

2) Drop US high school 5000m XC.

Awful ideas. Most people don't know how far the 1500 or the 1600 is. They know what the mile is. People want to run and watch the mile. The 1500 is meaningless for the (non track fan) American masses.

People know the 5k. Turkey trots and fun runs. 3k? What's that?

grounder wrote:

musclessfitness wrote:

I did predict that Galen would struggle with injuries, but I don't know if I'm the one you're thinking off.

Anyhow ... this injury is not about shoes or bone structure.

Galen's problem is his form. Forefoot strike + pushing off the ground will contribute to all kinda feet/ankle/heel issues.

I'll have to make a video about this.

I have to admit, I'm guilty of pushing off the ground when I run. Does anyone have any advice on how to run without pushing off the ground?

If high arches are involved the answer is foot strength maintenance and soft, flexible , slightly over-fat orthotics(inserts) and flexible shoes, . Stopping pushing is not the answer, going to a flat footed strike will kill someone with high arches. not to mention slow them down tremendously.

Don't know if this applies to Rupp, but foot type matters to this discussion.

If the spring is put ahead of what a runner needs to wear , that is going to hurt someone. One shoe is not right for that many people.

how far is that wrote:

Awful ideas. Most people don't know how far the 1500 or the 1600 is. They know what the mile is. People want to run and watch the mile. The 1500 is meaningless for the (non track fan) American masses.

People know the 5k. Turkey trots and fun runs. 3k? What's that?

Parkruns in the UK have 3k's as untimed fun runs. That's kind of dumb. 3k's are supposed to be serious track events.

US marathoning is no different than any country not named Kenya or Ethiopia. It took 15 years of Nike scientific engineering to produce Rupp to run with them. The only other one we have seen do it is Hall and he was a freak talent that grew up at altitude. We just don’t have the genetics or geography to compete with East African dudes