Looks like Rupp is preparing to run marathon trials

jjjjj wrote:

Who is this "ploy" benefiting?

It's just a long running joke on here since Chris Solinsky's comment in 2011.

it's just a ploy wrote:

jjjjj wrote:

Who is this "ploy" benefiting?

It's just a long running joke on here since Chris Solinsky's comment in 2011.

what comment?

Division 2 Dog wrote:

it's just a ploy wrote:

It's just a long running joke on here since Chris Solinsky's comment in 2011.

what comment?

0:55 - 1:15

The Donger wrote:

I'll take that bet. How much?

Are we betting on the running or the winning?

A beer at the Wild Duck in July?

Or something more?

A few tile undertaking wrote:

One would expect to ind it on the USATF site.

This is the funniest thing I've seeeen all day and I want u to hmu sometime so we can do peds together

-galen

Might make sense for him to start the race, then decide by mile 20 if he has a shot to make the team. I think he will win or will DNF.

Alberto is feeling a little left out,

The biggest running event in the USA over the next few months is the marathon trials and NOP is not a factor.

Jerry has Shalane and Amy and he has no one.

Solution. Fabricate a story and the stupid running media will bite.

Galen has NO plans to run the marathon trials.

smelLA fail wrote:

The race starts at 10:00am.

Last year on 2/13/15, it was 82.9 degrees at 10:47am and 87.1 at 11:47 am in downtown Los Angeles (KCQT weather station). Coupled with the poor air quaility, these types of temps are not Rupp-certified.

Sure, everyone knows when you are at or near at all time record high for a date, you will replicate those conditions exactly one year later.

Sergeant Schultz wrote:

The Donger wrote:

I'll take that bet. How much?

Are we betting on the running or the winning?

A beer at the Wild Duck in July?

Or something more?

Sounds good to me.

I am saying he doesn't even start the race.

Barring injury or setback between now and then he will toe the line at the marathon trails. He'll be instructed to run by feel. If he feels good he'll keep it rolling and make the team. If anything goes poorly or he feels like he's having an off day he will drop out and consider it a workout.

Either way he has 4 full weeks to recover for World Indoors. He has the best team in the world to assist in his recovery.

I don't think World Indoors is a huge priority (Farah already indicated that he's skipping it, as have many others).

I'm guessing that he skips World Indoors completely and will run one or two meets before the track trials, one of which will be the Pre Classic.

That's my guess.

nikeman wrote:

If he feels good he'll keep it rolling and make the team....

That's my guess.

That is quite the guess. Rupp has never run a marathon. Don't discount the real marathoners running the trials. Rupp could finish the marathon and not make the top three, or top even top four.

I don't see him finishing the race if there's no chance that he'll make the team.

If he runs the Trials to win, it will be the first Truly Interesting thing he has done as a runner.

Desk clork wrote:

xfit_guy_the_real_one wrote:

Galan Rupp doesn't want anyone to see his SCRAWNY body. I approve the use of long sleeves to cover up where real athletes are RIPPED and SHREDDED.

Here's a video of Rich Froning outside in the snow, shirtless, about to go for a swim. The Fron doesn't need to wear a shirt, he is bulging in places that Galan doesn't even have.

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

Does this guy still think he's funny?

Like a bad Twitter account...

nikeman wrote:

I don't see him finishing the race if there's no chance that he'll make the team.

When does a sit and kick runner know they won't finish top three? Mile 25, or later?

Pangolin wrote:

If he runs the Trials to win, it will be the first Truly Interesting thing he has done as a runner.

I agree.

However there's an 82.9 percent chance that he doesn't start the race.

The Donger wrote:

Sergeant Schultz wrote:

Are we betting on the running or the winning?

A beer at the Wild Duck in July?

Or something more?

Sounds good to me.

I am saying he doesn't even start the race.

Alright.. an evening of beers at the Wild Duck in July.

I say he runs, you're saying he doesn't make it to the starting line.

Saw a girl wearing full outdoor run gear today at the gym - she wasn't even running. Totally going to be in the trials.