Is Galen Rupp ready for worlds?

He hooked up with Ryan Hall and has been hitting the iron. Rupp is going to be the buffest man to ever run a 2:25 marathon.

Yes, I would love to know how he is doing. Definitely a frustrating part of being a Rupp fan is being in the dark on how he is doing, most of the time.

One of you needs to become a paparazzi and get pics to track his progress.

Rupp is always a top 10 threat. Not gonna win but in the mix!

Rupp's World Champs/Olympics strategy has typically been to run for a medal, I'd expect he'll look to hang as long as he can.

Has he done a tune up race recently? I don't remember hearing about anything.

He dropped out of the NYC Half in March. I have heard nothing about his prep since.

I agree that a top-10 Olympic performance is quite commendable. However, I think he chokes this time around. I think he's already at the end of the career.

I don’t think Galen is the best Championship runner that he could be.

Definitely Top 10 if he doesn’t drop out for something that may pop up.

I think he gets 3rd.

But we really don’t have a lot of evidence pointing us in which direction he’ll end up at

I still think he should do some type of Time Trail/Sub 2 like event where he tries to run 2:03 or something fast.

Lucky if Rupp finishes - he is Having injury issues and I’m surprised he has not given up his spot - no racing since his dnf in March ? He is what we called in the 80 s - punch drunk / too focused on marathoning needs to get back to 10k training

No. At this age and rate, Galen can and will never win any medal.

Sadly agree. But rooting for Galen MF RUPP still our only hope in the thon

Here's why he'll definitely medal.

1. It's not the Olympics. The competition is a lot weaker.

2. He's LITERALLY been training for this moment for years. Olympics in his home state of Oregon. Everything he has done for the last 5 years has been leading up to THIS race.

Imagine Eliud Kipchoge's drive and mental advantage if the world championships were in Kapsabet. That's Galen Rupp here

-Koko

"It´s not the Olympics"

"Olympics in his home state of Oregon"

Which one is it?

It’s crazy to think that from his college days to around the Rio olympics, he was by far the most interviewed, filmed runner we had. Flotrack, Runnerspace, Runningtimes/runnersworld, youtube, dyestat, Register Guard, you name it, he was everywhere. Even with social media today(which he obviously doesn’t use), I bet there’s still more Rupp content floating around than any current pro right now.

Brett Robinson trained with Rupp in both Oregon and Arizona during April and May.

Not sure on the quality, but, per Robinson, Rupp was doing absolutely massive sessions.

If he is 100% healthy, he will be in the mix deep into the race. However it is very odd that he has not raced at all, no tune up race???

Nothing against Brett Robinson, but he’s a 2:24 guy. Rupp should be training w sub 2:15 guys.

Brett has run sub 1:00 in the Half Mary and sub 2:11 in the Full Thon.

Who else is on the US marathon team?