Why is Galen Rupp so evasive on questions about his training?

Doping is the reason he ca t described the training as it will become obvious. If you think the east Africa are on all EPO then the American athletes are on a far better cocktail

Perhaps he's just afraid of people judging him when he gives away info because letsrun likes to bully people.

Why do you deflect/avoid every question people ask of you? You're more prolific than Rupp.

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jamin wrote:

I was trying to see if there are any LetsRun interviews with Darya Klishina and I happened upon the following Galen Rupp interview.

Go to around 2:30 - 4:45, where Jonathan Gault is asking Galen about altitude training. No specific answers about anything; won't answer, even in broad terms, the question of what elevation he keeps his altitude-simulated house at. What's the deal?

https://youtu.be/twabF2bQqDE?t=148

It's personal for him.

It's not personal Sonny, it's strictly business

This is very common in the pro running world and is nothing peculiar to Rupp. The thought is that training methods are a secret formula and that any discussion of training gives your opponent an insight into your strengths and weaknesses that gives them an advantage in competition.

Precious Roy wrote:

This is very common in the pro running world and is nothing peculiar to Rupp. The thought is that training methods are a secret formula and that any discussion of training gives your opponent an insight into your strengths and weaknesses that gives them an advantage in competition.

Some runners also feel that their training plan is partly owned by their coach and it isn't their place to be talking about it.

There are definitely groups out there that are getting more open about training. Watch the athlete special for a couple dozen episodes and you get a good feel for the brooks beast base training is looking like. The tinman guys post enough to have a decent feel for what they are doing. But those are definitely more exceptions than normals.

Galen is socially awkward and doesn't have the ability to delete threads when the questioning gets tough for him?

What kind of gold nuggets do you think there are to his training? He runs a lot, sometimes longer, sometimes shorter, sometimes faster, sometimes slower, etc. the world is kind of flat nowadays with training methodology. there's only so many ways to structure workouts out there.

Hindu Kushster wrote:

jamin wrote:

I was trying to see if there are any LetsRun interviews with Darya Klishina and I happened upon the following Galen Rupp interview.

Go to around 2:30 - 4:45, where Jonathan Gault is asking Galen about altitude training. No specific answers about anything; won't answer, even in broad terms, the question of what elevation he keeps his altitude-simulated house at. What's the deal?

https://youtu.be/twabF2bQqDE?t=148

It's personal for him.

This. Of all the elites who prefer to snub the choads who write for LRC, Rupp is probably the most justified. This is pro distance running's version of this:

See my post was deleted, PED’s by the American as training does not align with performance that is why he will not explain it.

Just image if the East African athletes refused to post or talk about training, screams EPO right?

Precious Roy wrote:

This is very common in the pro running world and is nothing peculiar to Rupp. The thought is that training methods are a secret formula and that any discussion of training gives your opponent an insight into your strengths and weaknesses that gives them an advantage in competition.

I know he is often criticized here on these forums, but one thing that is good about Tinman is that he doesn't keep any secrets from anyone.

He fully publicizes his training methods/system, talks about them in each interview, and shares his knowledge with the running community. His team, TME have public Strava profiles for anyone to follow and watch. Nothing is hidden there.

The same is of course also true for other coaches who share their training philosophies, like Jack Daniels, Canova, etc. Really wish more coaches would do that, and understand that publicizing their philosophies is not gonna make the average 16 min 5k guy threaten their 12:50 runner in a race, or even allow a 13:30 guy to suddenly beat the 12:50 guy.

He's always been one of the least interesting athletes to listen to in an interview or talking about anything.

Conversely, Lagat is always a good interview.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOK8EVfx9so

Those are some fugly guys photobombing Rupp's interview, that is not a pretty room.

In an era where all these runners have Instagram pages and post what they wear out and what they had for breakfast it's refreshing to have a guy who just refuses to play along.

He's a private person who just happens to be the best American born distance runner in history.

He does not like or trust the media. If you are not a left wing virtue signaling jacka$$ the media will destroy you.

Better to be evasive....

jamin wrote:I was trying to see if there are any LetsRun interviews with Darya Klishina and I happened upon the following Galen Rupp interview.

Go to around 2:30 - 4:45, where Jonathan Gault is asking Galen about altitude training. No specific answers about anything; won't answer, even in broad terms, the question of what elevation he keeps his altitude-simulated house at. What's the deal?

The deal is this. He doesn't want you, Mr. Jamin King, to copy his training and then get better at it and start beating him into the ground. How would he feel to run a 27 flat 10K only to see you surge by over the last 1200 and beat him by 10 seconds? On top of that you're not even paying for it so he loses twice.

I think Rupp is very into tech. So to those that say there are only so many options/formulas/structures for training, I think you are being narrow minded.

Rupp could be running 300mpw at 10,000ft on an AlterG. That would be something to keep secret, because others could easily implement that and his success would be quite validating.

im tired of beating around the bush with these rupp questions. we all know why he's evasive with training questions, and with interviews in general. Matt Hart wrote a book about it in case anyone is interested. I am tired of the whole "nothing to see here" attitude around him just because you all want a hero to worship.