galen rupp 2:09 marathon

Rupp dusted Centro

By 2028 it'll probably require at least 2:07 fitness in good conditions to make the team. At age 41 he probably won't make that rally, but nice to see him run under 2:10 at least one more time.

41 years later NIKE is still paying Joan Beniot Samuelson… Rupp will be the same way. He’ll always have some “job” within nike.

hell I bet Salazar is still drawing an income from that too.

stop trying to make "'thon" happen. it's not happening

I hear she receives 20K annually from them for appearances plus gear. Not bad if you ask me.

"Bbbuttttt, I would have gotten the hostages released too as long as we, as a nation, can appreciate the many nuanced interpretations of what 'released' actually means on a purely metaphysical level."

-Kamala

"brah" nailed it. Think of this as buildup #1 in a series. Granted, Rupp needs to avoid injury, but how about he has a successful spring/build and marathon, then goes on to Chicago (Berlin?) next year after a 3rd build. I could see a 2:07 race.
He's not going to win a major, but he's a competitor so why not?"

Seeing Galen go to 2028 also in the US would be so cool

Lol are all 3 whiteboys using nasal strips?

Smart move for Rupp

He is probably back with Alberto.

Back in 1974, Jack Foster of NZ won a comm games silver with 2:11 at 41 years old.

Imagine how he'd do in the new gear.

Smart move for Rupp

and with drafting and with super shoes and with hydration and with a super course, and and

BREAKING NEWS! KIPCHOGE IS BETTER THAN GALEN RUPP!

From this article it sounds like he’s still with Mike smith

This is a bizarre take. Firstly, the counterfactual with Bekele. 6 minutes is a long time in the marathon. Bekele also hadn't won a a WMM since 2019 and only podiumed once in that 21-24 Olympic cycle, so even if he was fully healthy the idea that he would have "an easy win" is really bizarre. Like, you can hold it as a personal belief but there's no evidence for it.

Secondly, I think it's anything but "easy" for Rupp to make the Olympic team. What has changed about American Marathoning isn't the peak of talent but the depth of talent in the past few years. America has always had a good marathoner or at most two. Just Galen. Galen and Meb. Meb and Ryan. Just Ryan or just Meb. So on and so forth. Abdi Abdirahman maybe deserves a mention too. People point to Meb or Abdi missing one marathon cycle and making the next, but that was fundamentally different because that 3rd spot and even sometimes that 2nd spot just wasn't very competitive in many years. Maybe you needed some luck, one or two guys have an off day, and your shot at 3rd is solid.

Conner Mantz is the current good marathoner. But behind him, there are a lot of guys who are all about as good as each other. Zouhair Talbi will be American, he's got a 2:05 PB. Wesley Kiptoo beat Rupp in Chicago, he'll be there. Ryan Ford, 2:08:00 PB and also beat Rupp in Chicago, he'll be there. That's not to mention Clayton Young. Not to mention Biya Simbassa who has a 2:06:53 PB and beat Rupp at the last trials. Not to mention CJ Albertson who beat Rupp at the last trials. Assuming nothing from Alex Maier mid 2:08 PB or Matt Richtman 2:07 high PB. Assuming that absolutely nothing becomes of any of Hilary Bor, Joe Klecker, Casey Clinger, Charles Hicks, Creed Thompson, etc.

It's widely believed that the 3rd place finisher in the next OTQ will need to run in the 2:07s on a flat course to make the team, and if Conner, Clayton, Biya, Zouhair, have a good day, maybe not even 2:07 high. Galen hasn't gone under 2:08 since 2021. Writing off Galen Rupp entirely is unwise, but to say he "can easily" make the Olympic team is probably even more of a stretch than writing him off entirely.

Kipchoge was surely 40. And doped to his eyeballs.