RUPP IS DONE. Rupp gets his doors blown off on last lap by Suguru Osako and 3 others in 10,000. Runs 28:00.

STOP... First of all Rupp is not a 10000m track runner he is a marathoner. Everything he is doing now is geared towards the Olympic marathon. He probably is in very heavy training right now and ran the 10000m with very little taper. So stop all the Rupp is done catchy stupid headlines

Confused here - is Osako not also deep in marathon prep?

The Stache wrote:

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michiganrunner55 wrote:

STOP... First of all Rupp is not a 10000m track runner he is a marathoner. Everything he is doing now is geared towards the Olympic marathon. He probably is in very heavy training right now and ran the 10000m with very little taper. So stop all the Rupp is done catchy stupid headlines

Thank you for providing wisdom. It is lacking in this thread. Yes, Rupp only cares about the marathon and I doubt if he feels bad about his results.

good result for rupp.

getting out sprinted on the track amidst marathon training is expected.

however.

rupp will not be happy with losing. at all

he'll be motivated to improve.

michiganrunner55 wrote:

STOP... First of all Rupp is not a 10000m track runner he is a marathoner. Everything he is doing now is geared towards the Olympic marathon. He probably is in very heavy training right now and ran the 10000m with very little taper. So stop all the Rupp is done catchy stupid headlines

So if Rupp and Osako are tied for 3rd with 400m to go in the Olympic marathon, do you like his chances? I don't.

Just Another Hobby Jogger wrote:

michiganrunner55 wrote:

STOP... First of all Rupp is not a 10000m track runner he is a marathoner. Everything he is doing now is geared towards the Olympic marathon. He probably is in very heavy training right now and ran the 10000m with very little taper. So stop all the Rupp is done catchy stupid headlines

So if Rupp and Osako are tied for 3rd with 400m to go in the Olympic marathon, do you like his chances? I don't.

Strength can surpass speed at end of marathon. Rupp is the master of the big occasion such as world championships and Olympic games and I think he will be ready. I don’t think he will win but I think he can medal, 2nd or 3rd. If it were a big city race with dozens of Kenyans and Ethiopian he would have less opportunity to place high, but Championship races have the tactical element which favors Rupp.

the most important attribute for a podium athlete is the burning, desperate desire to win.

win at all times.

win at all costs.

2nd place is first loser.

If you aint got that, you aint got shat.

I predicted galen wouldnt break 28. he didnt.

OP is correct.

No, the loss wont create a desire to 'get it back', it wil create a critical doubt. He woulnt have taken part if he thought he wouldnt break 28. Done done done.

Ghost1 wrote:

Strength can surpass speed at end of marathon. Rupp is the master of the big occasion such as world championships and Olympic games and I think he will be ready. I don’t think he will win but I think he can medal, 2nd or 3rd. If it were a big city race with dozens of Kenyans and Ethiopian he would have less opportunity to place high, but Championship races have the tactical element which favors Rupp.

What kind of shape do you think he's in? 2:04 with shoes?

lookism wrote:

Ghost1 wrote:

Strength can surpass speed at end of marathon. Rupp is the master of the big occasion such as world championships and Olympic games and I think he will be ready. I don’t think he will win but I think he can medal, 2nd or 3rd. If it were a big city race with dozens of Kenyans and Ethiopian he would have less opportunity to place high, but Championship races have the tactical element which favors Rupp.

What kind of shape do you think he's in? 2:04 with shoes?

Lol, 2:04. If he's in peak shape he might hit 2:06, more likely he's 2:07. He's only ever run in supershoes so he can't rely on a boost that he hasn't had previously

Ghost1 wrote:

Just Another Hobby Jogger wrote:

So if Rupp and Osako are tied for 3rd with 400m to go in the Olympic marathon, do you like his chances? I don't.

Strength can surpass speed at end of marathon. Rupp is the master of the big occasion such as world championships and Olympic games and I think he will be ready. I don’t think he will win but I think he can medal, 2nd or 3rd. If it were a big city race with dozens of Kenyans and Ethiopian he would have less opportunity to place high, but Championship races have the tactical element which favors Rupp.

Yeah. Osako was strong enough to come back in 10 min and ran another 29min 10k. Obvioulsy, he was not going all out in the first race.

Erm, this is more/less what I called in the other prediction thread. This title is trash. "Rupp is done." More like, "Rupp is a marathoner." We've known this for a while.

This was a 28:00 race. It went out at that pace and there were a few guys left at the bell. I doubt Rupp is working on his close and it makes total sense that he got outkicked. This was not a 27:30 race. Could Rupp have gone 27:30 in a race won in 27:25 right now?

This seems like a fine result during marathon training. Back to back 14:00 5k's. Maybe he runs the 10k Trials if a couple people scratch. If that race is fast he has a chance to finish in the top-3. If it's not fast, he finishes where he did in 2017.

I predicted galen wouldnt break 28. he didnt.

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FWIW this is my exact point. Yes, he didn't break 28:00. He ran 28:00.37 in a race that went out in 14-flat. Can't use this result to say 28-flat is his peak 10k fitness right now or that he can't break 28 or that you made some grand prediction. He definitely can't close like he used to but nothing tells us if he would have been able to handle a faster pace.

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LRC note. We've merged two threads into one. One was called: "Rupp is done." The other was called: "Bring back Alberto. Rupp gets his doors blown off on last lap by Suguru Osako and 3 others in 10,000. Runs 28:00."

Maybe he needs the wizard JS to run great again?

Why did Osako run two 10,000s?

So just 5-6 months ago Rupp does 20x400 @60 sec the day before he cruised a half marathon win. I don’t think he’s done by any stretch. We don’t know what running he did leading up to this. If I had to guess, I would say that the 10k was training for the final 10k of the marathon, and Rupp likely did a long and difficult workout either the day before the 10k or morning of the 10k.

DC Wonk wrote:

So just 5-6 months ago Rupp does 20x400 @60 sec the day before he cruised a half marathon win. I don’t think he’s done by any stretch. We don’t know what running he did leading up to this. If I had to guess, I would say that the 10k was training for the final 10k of the marathon, and Rupp likely did a long and difficult workout either the day before the 10k or morning of the 10k.

Bingo!! Some people know what’s going on...

I wouldn’t be surprised if Galen is in the middle of a heavy training block with substantial muscle fatigue and still runs a respectable time. Galen can beat any of those guys anytime even with marathon training but must have proper rest prior racing.

Don’t forget haters Galen is a top world class runner and likely the best American born distance runner.

Great chances making the podium in the marathon.

Brah, go deep into a mara training block and pivot back to the track for a weekend. Turnover suffers massively. This thread is clearly written by someone that has never experience a marathon block.