Curious won wrote:
Currently banned but in T&F. If you look at mid-packer 5k results, the name will pop out. Gotta satisfy the competitive juices and I don't blame the person.
I looked, but no name popped out.
Curious won wrote:
Currently banned but in T&F. If you look at mid-packer 5k results, the name will pop out. Gotta satisfy the competitive juices and I don't blame the person.
I looked, but no name popped out.
Odoodle wrote:
DS wrote:He is going to be pressured to run World Indoors because of the marketing behind the event, but I hope he runs the Trials.
As he should. Worlds is being hosted in the US. Every single athlete should participate in this. Especially every Nike athlete because it's in their backyard. Athletes skipping world championships is ridiculous.
No big deal.
Running the marathon trials would be much more important.
Rupp and Bekele sprinting for the line, neck and neck, in the last 0.2 of the marathon, Rio 2016. ftw
Nikeman wrote:
He won the Holiday Half on a cool rainy morning to qualify easily for the Olympic Trials marathon
Only 6 people out of 869 broke 20:00 in the 5k. That's shocking.
Nothing like the Shamrock, which has multiple events too.
The good runners were at Club Nats in SF.
Looked too. Must be a sprinter or throw person or Masters athlete. Mid-packer time are slow. Why not just say who it is unless your worried its someone with the same name?
F*ck me, damn, and doing it solo? $hit this guy is the real deal, watch out for him. Same thing for Ryan hall when he ran his American half record, except he was 2 minutes faster, but still that's some serious skill, and if he's a 10k/5k runner specifically, he's going to crush this season.
rules are rules wrote:
Looked too. Must be a sprinter or throw person or Masters athlete. Mid-packer time are slow. Why not just say who it is unless your worried its someone with the same name?
Bingo! Not a big deal. Just a fun run. The people that came in after him could raise a stink but they don't care.
Was he wearing two watches??
bigduh wrote:
lemmegetit wrote:Let me get this straight. You want to see someone who takes advantage of the anti doping system (backed by big Nike bucks cheating his way to the top, proven user of banned products) race the trials? I'd be disappointed to see him win any money. He is a bad example of an athlete. He has kids fooled around the globe thinking they can aspire to run like him naturally. When in fact he has been abusing substances banned for years and abusing the TUE system since he began in High school. What a farce
You want to see someone run 2:12?
Yes, I would prefer a clean 2:12 to a dirty 2:04 or even world record. (Not talking about anyone specific here, just generally.)
to my knowledge this is the second fastest half marathon run in the US this year (~30 seconds slower than diego estrada).
as a fan of running and an american, its exciting when a runner with (marathon) potential runs fast. i assumed Rupp would squeak under the qualifying standard in order to check the box, but he put in a nice run on this one.
if this wasn't Rupp, i think the support behind this run would be universal. quite the performance and definitely very interesting.
i don't think Rupp is a favorite to medal in Rio in the marathon, but i do think he makes the marathon team without killing himself (i.e. sub 2:10, without pushing his limits). if he remains injury free, he is the US' best hope in the marathon, as far as i'm concerned.
i do hope he runs. i highly doubt he will. i think, mostly, he will focus on 10k, and come up short...
regardless, great run and something to be excited about.
shohohe wrote:
bigduh wrote:You want to see someone run 2:12?
Yes, I would prefer a clean 2:12 to a dirty 2:04 or even world record. (Not talking about anyone specific here, just generally.)
Sure, but the reality is that he is going to run something clean or dirty. So as long as he is running something, I'd like it to see him in the marathon.
It'll be interesting to see what he decides. I would like to see him run the Oly Marathon Trials, but agree that it's probably still a long shot. I do think World Indoors in Portland complicates things a bit. I'm sure he has been looking forward to running a World championship event in front of a home crowd.
cough please wrote:
Relate this out to a marathon race, 2x1:01:20 =2:02:40+8 minutes puts him at 2:10, rested marathon sharp sub 2:10.
He can win the marathon trials and worst case make the team in 2nd or 3rd.
No other male has shown this type of quality effort as of recent.
Tim Ritchie ran about the same time (61:22) a month and a half ago at Philly RnR and I believe he was solo for much of it. Not sure how the courses compare, however...
Here is what is really going on:
Rupp ran this as a workout - a hard workout. By being non-committal about running the trials or not, he is putting pressure on the non-Nike athletes and making them think that there are, in effect, potentially only 2 marathon spots available. This forces them to train even harder, which increases the likelihood of injury/illness/staleness come the trials. The Nike athletes know that he won't run trials and isn't a factor and can continue training as they would have. Net result is the probability that Nike athletes will do better in the trials if some of the competition is effectively eliminated.
All I got to say, that was the easiest looking 1:01 half I've ever seen, and having nobody to share any pacing whatsoever is impressive. He looked fluid and very relaxed. No doubt he could have run sub-1 in an actual race.
Galen CAN still do both
He just ran 1:01:20, it's mid-December
All he needs to do is run a low key 3k (probably one at one of the series meets at the new indoor track in Portland), run 7:42 (I believe that's the IAAF standard) sometime in late January
Get geared up for the marathon trials, run it on Feb 13th
Now I know the marathon takes quite a bit of recovery time, BUT Rupp is so good I honestly think he ran tempo it and just run for 3rd
ALL this while doing 3k training, to be honest, I don't think he needs to shift from 3k training to marathon training to get top 3 at the trials, he just that good
He run the USA indoor champs 3 WEEKS LATER, and then runs world indoor shortly after, takes a break and starts training for the 10k/Marathon double at Rio
More importantly, a world record was set in this race
http://runningmagazine.ca/half-marathon-world-record-in-an-animal-costume-broken-in-oregon/
my name is dyron wrote:
Video wrote:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BUbeMs8btA0So how did that course set up work out once there were a bunch of runners going in both directions on that narrow strip?
What terrible race.
Always nice when someone who has never run the race is an expert on how it is a terrible course. It works fine and the race is what it is, a great race for the non-elite runner.
even more amazing wrote:
Only 6 people out of 869 broke 20:00 in the 5k. That's shocking.
Nothing like the Shamrock, which has multiple events too.
It's because of the time of year. Shamrock is the first big (competitive) race of the year here, while the Holiday Half is at the end when most people are either taking a break, racing at XC club nationals or just ran CIM.