Galen Rupp 7:44.69 for 3k

Appears to be collegiate record for an American.

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Reebok Boston Indoor Games - 2/7/2009

Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center

Boston, MA

Event 19 Men 3000 Meter Run

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5 & 4

Name Year Team Finals

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Finals

1 Bekana Daba ETH 7:41.88

2 Galen Rupp USA 7:44.69

3 Markos Geneti ETH 7:46.74

4 Josh Rohatinsky USA 7:49.55

5 Brian Olinger USA 7:51.13

6 Adrian Blincoe NZL 7:53.98

7 Bolota Asmerom USA 7:56.10

-- Haron Lagat KEN DNF

-- Solomon Kandie KEN DNF

Equivalent to an 8:22 two mile.

I'm looking forward to the 1st Rupp & Fernandez head to head.

J.R. wrote:

Equivalent to an 8:22 two mile.

I'm looking forward to the 1st Rupp & Fernandez head to head.

Well I don't know about a 2 mile, but I think Rupp plans to double at NCAA indoors. If Fernandez does the 3K you won't have to wait too long for a similar matchup.

Rupp may be doing a 5K next week, what's the collegiate indoor record?

13:28 by Cragg, but I think the American collegiate record is 13:32.

BTW, the Oregon school record for 3000 indoors was 7:54 by Rupp, 2007.

Early prediction here... next week Rupp runs between 13:23 and 13:25 for 5000.

I am sure ramxc will say this is back handed, but 7:44.x is very very good .

This is the area where folks get confused, they confuse TT situations with racing other "like" guys, Fernandez may very well be good enough, he may be, but until you get into fields like these with serious opposition all around you, you never know how good a guy would be as a pro.

Rupp shipped far for this as a Collegian, and was supposedly almost sick enough to pull out and ran well., very well.

WOW sub 7:45 that's great. Even I will say that German would have a tough time competing against that. He (Rupp) just simply gets better as the race gets longer. I can see him getting close to the AR in the 10k by the end of 2009. Although, the way Meb is running right now he might take his own record down before Rupp.

AMERICAN RUNNING RIGHT NOW IS JUST INCREDIBLE. The USATF needs to put all there eggs in the basket now, if we ever want our sport to take off. With young runners like Rupp, Fernandez, Puskedra, Derrick, Wheating, ... the atmosphere is perfect for a running revolution!

Nice to see a fan supporting the sport. Nice early season marks for Lukezic and Webb as well. Let's hope this shuts the bashers down for a few days.

Sully wrote:

13:28 by Cragg, but I think the American collegiate record is 13:32.

No, Alberto's 13:20-high, or 13:21 from Millrose 1981.

Checked Millrose site. AlSal ran 13:22.6 behind Nyambui's Collegiate Record 13:20.4.

the rocket wrote:

WOW sub 7:45 that's great.

Yes, it really is. I realize most know this, or could easily figure it out, but 7:45 = 31.0/200m pace for 15 200m laps. That's really outstanding.

Good for him. I wish him well, the rest of the year!

Heard through the grapevine wrote:

BTW, the Oregon school record for 3000 indoors was 7:54 by Rupp, 2007.

Oe thing to remember though is that unitl recently U of Oregon has not pursued much of a winter indoor season.

beating out markos geneti, 2nd at reebok, in 7:44i, not too shabby at all.

i agree, a 3k matchup between rupp and fernandez would be pretty damn exciting, but i think everyone knows that fernandez has rupp's number. sorry, fernandez has the stamina and the speed.

great race for rupp though, better than what i thought he would've done. i think his pr in any 3k before this race was his american junior record 7:49. i see american distance running synthesizing nicely in the coming years, not that it hasn't been building to it in the past 9 years.

the rocket wrote:

AMERICAN RUNNING RIGHT NOW IS JUST INCREDIBLE.

No...its not.

Mens' Distance running is completely out of it. How many US runners from 800 up world ranked? 3/10 athletes of the year were distance runners. So its not that distance runners can't compete against sprinters/throwers on a global level.

How many distance runners ranked in the top ten US athletes - none. Hall & Lagat got 14 points between the two of them (~0.1% of total points available). Even within the confines of the US, US distance running is not on the map.

The only bright spot is US womens' distance running. THAT is going relatively well, where US women received 12% of all US AOY votes, and 3 world rankings.

Face facts...its February. Who cares? The race is in August.

Word has is Rupp isnt going to run the 5k because the Track is too clean...

J.R. wrote:

Equivalent to an 8:22 two mile.

I'm looking forward to the 1st Rupp & Fernandez head to head.

821.4, not bad considering he almost pulled out because he had been sick.

Salazar ran 13:22 @ Millrose back in 81 when he was still competing for the U of O. And that rack was the old Garden, wooden, 34 laps to the 5K track.