Rupp wins 10k--27:33

irun wrote:

boredman wrote:

Rupp is a public figure, a great runner who sometimes acts like a twit.

oh, i soo miscalculated your maturity

I'm easily 6' tall, and you too can have perfect teeth!

didn't think so...

right, so your physical maturity is there...

irun wrote:

boredman wrote:

Rupp is a public figure, a great runner who sometimes acts like a twit.

oh, i soo miscalculated your maturity

Is spelling so with two o's a sign of maturity?

Tell us about it.

Something about a sack of hammers comes to mind.

I'm sorry for being a jerk. Throwing out personal attacks on people when the original discussion had nothing to do with them is kind of immature I think, and I take blame for that. Sorry. I don't get off on Rupp's jock sweat, but when people make assinine comments like

"I still say he'll never win anything important. Oh yeah, and he just shot his wad in April. Very Ritz-like."

all I see is ignorance and disrespect, and it just gets under my skin, and I know I should let it. Again, sorry for being a jerk, and I wish you all the best.

shouldn't*

Uh oh wrote:

[quote]AppleSeed wrote:

You can never compare him to other Americans because of the advantages he has received.

I can damn sure compare him to other Americans. Get a clue. Because no American athlete has access to the exact same "advantages" that he has? Excuse me, I guess I am ignorant, but I remember hearing about Ritz using the anti-G treadmill stuff, and many athletes using underwater treadmills. quote]

You can be damn sure Ritz NEVER had access to an underwater or anti-gravity treadmill while in college. He ran on Salazar's for the first time just recently - as a professional. I don't know of any college runner having access to one, nor is allowed to do his college classes on-line so he can live and train where his personal coach is, not at the university, and workout with professionals, i.e. Adam Goucher for the track season. This is all out of the mouth of Salazar on Flocast. Rupp doesn't have to play by the same rules his own teammates play by. His game is professtional and that is the bitch people have with his college career - not his running career.

has anyone watched the entire 10k video? did you count the laps? because it appears to me the race was one lap short. I haven't had a chance to look at results until now and I am dumbfounded. what kind of magic dust do they spray in the air up there at Stanford?

irun wrote:

3:01 for the last 1200m??? are you serious?? that's freakin' amazing. can't wait for rupp to get out of college and train for the big boy races.

He's hardly in college now, he lives in Portland and trains with Goucher and crew and takes all his classes online. He's only in Eugene for exams and meets. He trains like and with pro's as it is and is under NCAA violation, that's what deep corporate profits will do for you.

Rupp is a homo wrote:

(nothing of any significance)

Basically, I stopped reading once I saw that screen name.

What are you, 12-years-old? Take that garbage over to DyeStat where they will genuinely appreciate it.

I meant other Americans his age.

Pimsleur wrote:

I don't know of any college runner having access to one, nor is allowed to do his college classes on-line so he can live and train where his personal coach is, not at the university, and workout with professionals, i.e. Adam Goucher for the track season. This is all out of the mouth of Salazar on Flocast. Rupp doesn't have to play by the same rules his own teammates play by. His game is professtional and that is the bitch people have with his college career - not his running career.

Since Oregon and the NCAA have no problem with it, then your objections are nothing but whining. I'd say a good many HS national class runners don't follow their state regulations to the letter. And, hey, let's disqualify the runners who were better than you in HS in rich districts that had access to superior tracks, equipment, and could afford to travel more widely to get more competition. There are certainly athletes with college like setups in HS, and so it shouldn't be a surprise that some in college have access to pro level situations. And, lets disqualify all the athletes who "jaywalk" across roads rather than break stride like strict law abidding citizen like you would have to, giving them an unfair training advantage.

Name any other athlete in NCAA history who has a "scholarship" quite like Rupp's.

Is Oregon setting a dangerous precedent? What's to say AJ decides to train on his own...or to forego a Vin workout because it doesn't fit his training plan.

AJ's defense - if Rupp doesn't have to do it, why do I?

Do the other Ducks think that Rupp is a carpetbagger?

Anyone in Eugene with inside knowledge?

"taking seriously"???? wrote:

You're seriously comparing Hall right now with Rupp right now? I don't even have to bother spelling out what kind of thinking that indicates, it speaks for itself.

once again, spoken like the idiot you are. i said that you are the same kind of person who would be railing on Hall after going for it in the 1/2. saying he wasn't going to do shit against the world class field at london. I also used the example in that same post of people who cannot help themselves but say every good female runner in high school is going to suck.

so it's pretty clear that i was not comparing hall and rupp, unless you also believe i was comparing rupp to high school girls.

man, the vast majority of people on here are so stupid it's incredible.

"Do the other Ducks think that Rupp is a carpetbagger?"

I know some of the OTC guys think so.

I'm a Duck, and wish the very best for al OR runners, even (especially) Rupp, but Salazar combined with whats happened at OR since Smith's ouster comnpletely stinks.

Clearly Vin's the yes man.

Go Ducks, go OTC!

Well, you're still wrong. The analogy is crap, it doesn't hold. I did not and would not rail on Hall "after going for it in the 1/2". Comparing Hall's performance in the context of his season with Rupp's is comparing apples and apple blossoms. Why would someone say that "every good female runner in high school is going to suck"? Where are you getting this dumb crap? Oh yeah, from within your thick skull.

It's pretty clear that you still don't know what the hell you're talking about.

Then go away and bring those numbers down.

It takes one to know one wrote:

What are you, 12-years-old? Take that garbage over to DyeStat where they will genuinely appreciate it.

Actually you never see crap like that posted on dyestat. I think it's because letsrun is far more anonymous than dyestat, but I've always found that the level of maturity on the dyestat forums (not including the playground) is far higher than that found on letsrun.

omurphy21 wrote:

It takes one to know one wrote:

What are you, 12-years-old? Take that garbage over to DyeStat where they will genuinely appreciate it.

Actually you never see crap like that posted on dyestat. I think it's because letsrun is far more anonymous than dyestat, but I've always found that the level of maturity on the dyestat forums (not including the playground) is far higher than that found on letsrun.

Absolutely true. The Playground and LetsRun are equally immature, but in different ways.

willamette valley wrote:

"Do the other Ducks think that Rupp is a carpetbagger?"

I know some of the OTC guys think so.

I'm a Duck, and wish the very best for al OR runners, even (especially) Rupp, but Salazar combined with whats happened at OR since Smith's ouster comnpletely stinks.

Clearly Vin's the yes man.

Go Ducks, go OTC!

Everything you're saying GO for is a direct result of Salazar and his influence at Nike and connection to Rupp. You can't be happy about Vin and OTC and not be happy about Salazar since they go hand in hand. Vin and OTC wouldn't be here without Salazar.

as for those bitching about Rupp...everyones always bitching about how bad our distance running is, and now their bitching about a guy who's passed on 100k a year at least who's taking advantage of some benefits to try and be the best runner he can while helping oregon and American distance running. What he's doing is a GREAT thing and should be applauded.