If you were Galen Rupp, what would your next marathon be?

Chicago pizza sucks beyond compare.

Rupp's next marathon could be anything, the Rupp fanbois will still spaz out with his 2:14 or whatever.

Run a rabbit race, you puzzy.

titananatit wrote:

New York has an INTERNATIONAL audience on a pretty amazing course. Chicago is a flat snoozefest with what, 300 spectators, total? GTFO.

New York & Boston are everything-- and New York is better / harder, with a larger audience in (for better or worse) the media capital etc.

Chicago has OK pizza and hotdogs, its marathon is garbage.

New York doesn't have an INTERNATIONAL audience any more than Chicago does. You think in Europe they cover the NYC Marathon but not Chicago? Nope. It's just like over here Berlin and London are given the same treatment. If you follow distance running, you watch both races. If you don't, you watch neither. Personally I don't know anyone who says, "I definitely have to catch New York, but I'm not at all interested in Chicago." For the common man (or woman), I can see how the appeal of RUNNING New York is greater, but nobody bases their racing schedule on what an elite does, besides other elite athletes.

I love distance running. I recognize that Rupp running or not running a certain race isn't going to change the stature of the sport. I watched Sportscenter the night Meb won Boston. It was mentioned, almost in passing, at the end of the show. NYC takes place on a football Sunday. There's no way Rupp winning it would get anything other than the exact same treatment.

WRONG.

NYC is a city-wide cultural spectacle; Chicago is nothing of the sort.

"We" can argue the competitive merits of each event-- NYC blows it away in every possibly way is my take-- but in FACT there is a casual, 'voyeuristic' audience for New York that Chicago will never ever have.

Major Labia, USMC wrote:

WRONG.

NYC is a city-wide cultural spectacle; Chicago is nothing of the sort.

"We" can argue the competitive merits of each event-- NYC blows it away in every possibly way is my take-- but in FACT there is a casual, 'voyeuristic' audience for New York that Chicago will never ever have.

Who is the "casual, voyeuristic" audience?

No brainer: Boston and NYC unless the Chicago organizers contracted him as they did with KK. Screw London Berlin etc for now. I’m an old school purist, back in my days Fukuoka, Boston, NYC and Chicago were the races to win, everything else was inconsequential.

I saw jordan hasay on a run and ran with her for half an hour. I asked her what her next marathon would be after chicago and she said something like "im pretty much in love with Boston." I assume that if shes running boston that rupp is also running boston. I also asked her if they would ever put rupp in a fast race like london or berlin with 2:03 guys and she said "i think they are waiting until he gets his pr down before doing a race like that." His pr is not down yet, i think he'll avoid london. I also dont think they'd put him in a race against farah.

Thats why i assume itll be boston again.

Last year after boston, all the sources said that he wanted to run either nyc or chicago. He did chicago and won. I dont see why he'd repeat. Nyc will offer way more money and he has to feel ready to go for the win there.

Honolulu Dec. 10th. He can pace a guy named Nick, go to beach and a luao afterwards.

Boston in the spring.

Berlin in the fall.

MAGA

Through the years I had the privilege of competing against D1 and eventual professional athletes. I was in my hs and college years during the whole Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire steroids witch hunt. Couple that with Lance Armstrong a few years later and it was the perfect storm for the media. I personally know individuals that have used HGH, and Test boosting supplements at an early age, (hs and early 20s.) While many believe it's apart of the equation to be elite, there is even greater health risk coupled with combing endogenous hormones with men's highest natural T levels at that point in our development. So, how does that fit in with Galen Rupp? If he was supplementing illegally during his early to mid 20s before the shit storm hit with Salaazar and the NOP, that supplementing could have dramatically shifted his work output ability and how his body developed aerobic strength now translating to the marathon elite in 2017. I'd venture to say in present day, the NOP is following every rule as their now under strict watch, but go back some years, highly likely it was a different story. Galen Rupp is an absolute elite talent, but the real question is what (illegal) tactics were used in the most crucial part of his athletic development. It will be interesting to see what evolves with the NOP athletes in the next 10 years.

1.7 million spectators showed up to watch the Chicago marathon this year.

Seems so obvious that it will be Boston in the spring, and either Chicago or NYC in the fall. The ultimate goal has been winning Medals and now it'll be the big US races.

But I want to see him in London instead.

My impression is that Salazar sees Rupp as a kind of extension of his own legacy. He's trying to coach Rupp to the same levels he was at, and to achieve the things he did, and did not. I think this all must eventually lead to either New York City (which Al Sal one thrice) or Boston (the famous Duel in the Sun). Salazar wants his boy to win either of those.

Yabba dabba wrote:

1.7 million spectators showed up to watch the Chicago marathon this year.

Yup Yup. I flew 1,500 miles JUST to watch the marathon. I would not go to NY if you paid my fare. NY is a cesspool of irrelevance.

You know that joke about how you know people are cross-fitters or vegans? They tell you in the the first 3 minutes of knowing you.

Same with NY-ers. They think they are The $hit, when really all they are IS $hit.

Galen's long-term focus has to 2020 and 2021 Portland.

I think he'll want to get one fast marathon under his belt next year so I could see him going back to Chicago. Don't see why he has to do NY.

2018- could still do 2 "slow" marathons (Boston, NYC), but he is the Chicago defending champ, Chicago is a Nike race, and he may want to test the waters in a faster race. Could go back to Chicago, they say they're going to have guys keep the pace honest, just go out in 1:03 and see what happens.

2019- might have to defend his Boston title, but could take a crack at London. Really doubt he runs Worlds in Doha. NYC.

2020- Trials/Olympics

2021- Eugene Worlds

Subway Surfers Addiction wrote:

it will be ok wrote:

London or Tokyo in the spring, Berlin in the fall.

It will be Boston.

If he's smart about managing his career, which he definitely seems to be, it will be. His appearance fee for Boston will be more than he stands to make in appearance fee and prize money combined anywhere else.

Clean up in the domestic WMMs. Boston next Spring, New York next fall. Don't bother racing anywhere else until all three domestic majors have been won by him at least once.

... and never run under 2:09, yet remain one of the greatest ever in the minds of the LR faithful.

wejo nailed it with Rupp being perfect for our times.

jtrb23 wrote:

Who is the "casual, voyeuristic" audience?

Pervs who are just watching marathons to see women in bunhuggers. You can't watch beach volleyball all the time.

Feel like almost everyone has forgotten that 2021 is Rupp's chance to win gold in his hometown: no way he doesn't do everything he can to get on the world champs squad for Eugene. He'd be best served by running only 10ks and halfs in 2020(World Half Champs, maybe?) in preparation for the Olympics (this way he could run NYC at the end of 2019, and bring home two medals in 2020). The Olympics are always everyone's priority, but if I was from Oregon, 2021 is #2 on my list. 2016, 2017, and 2018 are Rupp's chances to solidify himself and run a lot of marathons, (which I think we should all agree he's done well at so far) and 2019 has to be the year where he does everything he can to win gold in Tokyo (unlikely) and gold in Eugene (who knows). I'd say if he medals in Tokyo, and wins the Eugene marathon, he'd consider anything else after that a bonus.

what about the fact that he is is the running for WMM title and money, that is surely going to impact next race he chooses