Official Is Your Home XC Course Rupp Certified?

What a bunch of cock gobblers

I heard salazar and rupp are petitioning the ncaa to allow him to race NCAA CC at a seperate location, preferably the anti-gravity treadmill and compare times for his place.

I haven't run it since 2000, and I know they've changed it a bit, especially on the back end (miles 1.5-2.5). I'll try my best to describe it:

Start: flat for 100m, tiny uphill bump, flat, downhill until mile mark #1. Uphill to mile 1.5. Uphill between 2 and 2.5. Downhill to 3. Uphill from 3 to 3.5. Big Uphill from 3.75 to 5. Then a flat 300 meter finish. It's all basically in the rough of a golf course, and a tiny bit on soccer fields. The last mile is a bi-yatch. Brian Sell once broke me in that last mile! Go figure.

http://gopsusports.cstv.com/auto_pdf/p_hotos/s_chools/psu/sports/c-xc/auto_pdf/mens-52-mile-course

Army's Course 2008

Location: West Point, NY

NOT Rupp certified

Justification(s):

#1: you have to run up a ski slope 3 times

#2: there are no bathroom facilities except port-a-potty's (risking dangerous exposure to foreign germs)

#3 at points there are acorns and small rocks ON THE COURSE! Treacherous, to say the least.

#4 thyroid medication may be confiscated at military checkpoints

#5 sex-starved Army cadets may find shaved legs (read: fresh meat) and centerfold poses (see above link) a little too exciting (treachery, indeed!)

rupp ftw over chelanga

South Dakota State University

Edgebrook Golf Course

Brookings, SD

NOT Rupp Certified

Reasoning:

1. Possibility of being hit by a golf ball.

2. Possibility of being ran over by a golf cart.

3. Too much wind.

4. Too close to the interstate. (car noise)

The Auburn Tiger Inv. Course

Rupp certified and record standard!!!

If you don't set a PR on this course, then you ought to hang it up.

oldtimeguy wrote:

Van Cortlandt Park 2008

Location: Bronx, NY

Rupp Certified

Justification: Groomed back hills. Cinder path on flats is better than cart paths on even 5 star golf courses.

Van Cortlandt Park 1988

Location, Bronx, NY

NOT Rupp Certified

Justification: Broken beer bottles in back hills, lots of tree roots.

Vanny in '96 would not be Rupp certified, either. my brother shattered his hip (he's apparently part German Sheppard- yes, i know: i called him a son of a bitch) on the final straight.

doubtless that story would send shivers up gaylen's spine... and not just because of the bad jokes.

useful thread wrote:

CU Home Course (i.e Rocky Mountain Shootout)

Boulder, CO

NOT Rupp Certified

Justification: Mainly dirt, but footing can be inconsistent, especially when affected by Altitude. Jawbone Hill can be slippery and crowded.

Is there ever a time when it is not "affected by altitude"?

trialswatcher wrote:

Folks are making too much of Rupp NOT running some meaningless BS meet. I am not a fan of his total lack of racing in all his seasons, but this is not a big deal.

That said, this is one of the funniest threads I have ever read.

100% agree. Who won the race...wheating? Is that even considered a race for Rupp? Did he actually skip a race? To me it looked like he skipped a jog. Wheating ran what? 455 pace or somemthing? Rupp went to the track and ran 4:40 pace for just over 6 miles, going 30-40. Obviously ones a track and ones a course...but Rupp could have run 18 flat on that course must likely if he really wanted to. And what would have made that any better then doing a workout on teh track.

yetanotherchick wrote:

McAlpine Park (Foot Locker South course)

Charlotte NC

RUPP CERTIFIED

It's been a very long time since I've run this course, but I thought of it as soon as I saw this thread. I think I took 20 seconds off my cross-country PR there, it was so smooth.

Also, if you see the word "rupp" enough times, it starts to look funny.

rupp rupp rupp rupp rupp rupp rupp

rupp rupp rupp rupp rupp rupp rupp

rupp rupp rupp rupp rupp rupp rupp

I'm sorry, I'm extremely immature.

Decertified if rain.

If it rains at all, the sewer overflows and there are piles of crap at the start line. They even cover it with lime, just to be "safe".

Webb might run in the poo, but not Rupp.

I bite wrote:

I haven't run it since 2000, and I know they've changed it a bit, especially on the back end (miles 1.5-2.5). I'll try my best to describe it:

Start: flat for 100m, tiny uphill bump, flat, downhill until mile mark #1. Uphill to mile 1.5. Uphill between 2 and 2.5. Downhill to 3. Uphill from 3 to 3.5. Big Uphill from 3.75 to 5. Then a flat 300 meter finish. It's all basically in the rough of a golf course, and a tiny bit on soccer fields. The last mile is a bi-yatch. Brian Sell once broke me in that last mile! Go figure.

http://gopsusports.cstv.com/auto_pdf/p_hotos/s_chools/psu/sports/c-xc/auto_pdf/mens-52-mile-course

thats not it at all actually. its nothing like that.

first half mile is down hill then you flatten out until the mile in which there is one big climb. after that its pretty flat with a few downhills. then around 2.8 theres a short climb and another climb at 4 miles. other than that its all golf course pedicured grass, just watch your head, theres a lot of low hanging tress

Belmont Plateau. Not Rupp certified. He'd see Parachute and cringe.

North Central College Home Course (Dupage River Park)

Location: Naperville IL

NOT Rupp Certified

Justification: Dirt trail through the woods. There is a sharp little gorge, there are tree roots sticking up, there are alot of rocks on one stretch which has a down hill which would be awful for footing, if it rains the course is muddy, and its in the woods so Alberto wouldn't be able to see Rupp at all times.

Voice of America Park* (following a deluge of rain)

Columbus, OH

I'm really not sure about this one...

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*host of 2006 D3 nationals, 2007 club nationals

If the course is the same as it was in 1999, the second mile is straight uphill, which can be jarring after going out hard the first downhill mile. After that the course seemed to sort of roll and wind. Really pretty.

Mrr82 wrote:

trialswatcher wrote:

Folks are making too much of Rupp NOT running some meaningless BS meet. I am not a fan of his total lack of racing in all his seasons, but this is not a big deal.

That said, this is one of the funniest threads I have ever read.

100% agree. Who won the race...wheating? Is that even considered a race for Rupp? Did he actually skip a race? To me it looked like he skipped a jog. Wheating ran what? 455 pace or somemthing? Rupp went to the track and ran 4:40 pace for just over 6 miles, going 30-40. Obviously ones a track and ones a course...but Rupp could have run 18 flat on that course must likely if he really wanted to. And what would have made that any better then doing a workout on teh track.

For the first time ever, I'm going to agree with Mrr82. Collegiate athletes race too often, and race in too many bullshit meets. This was a good call--he got in a hard, controlled effort that will end up being more useful for him than a silly meet.

That doesn't mean that alsal's excuse about the condition of the course isn't completely laughable. It might not have been the relevant excuse, but even so, what a terrible excuse. XC isn't real XC if it's on a golf course.

Oh my god. You all need to get over your obsession with Galen Rupp. He is better than you.

But this is the funniest thread in some time.

It's verging on the crap stories thread from a couple of years ago and almost dead-even with the colon-cleanse thread from about the same time.