Galen MF Rupp 13:01.26!!!!!!!!

Dennis Reynolds 2.0 wrote:

It's January 16th at some rink dink meet that doesn't matter. Galen Rupp = New Alan Webb

Except with a Silver Olympic Medal, so not the same at all :)

over 13

GALEN RUPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP. Wish it was at a bigger meet, but hell yeah

live free or die.. wrote:

Chelanga looked pretty damn good tonight also. And he is clean.

Way more impressed by Chelanga than Galen. He seems like a normal person, not some machine with no personality that in my opinion is possibly doping.

...yawn the guy is a doper. I'll face his coach in time; face to face; others will also say the same; the bbc wants to know; SI was on their tail ...

I'm quite sure Salazar knows what he is doing. You can peak twice a year.

Someone else has a video up already of the last 3-4 laps:

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

The guy is till a pu$$y!! call me when he mans up!! by the way my 5k time is 1410 not as fast as he is but I'm ok with it! haha

Generalized LRC Logic:

Run slow and struggle and you just suck or don't have the fitness to compete. Or you are just a gutless runner

Win slow races with a kick and clearly you don't have good fitness and will just get smoked in a good, fast race.

Run fast but can't win races...you have no killer instinct or wheels

Run fast and win everything...must be a doper.

LM wrote:

Generalized LRC Logic:

Run slow and struggle and you just suck or don't have the fitness to compete. Or you are just a gutless runner

Win slow races with a kick and clearly you don't have good fitness and will just get smoked in a good, fast race.

Run fast but can't win races...you have no killer instinct or wheels

Run fast and win everything...must be a doper.

No, if he and Mo focused on one or two distances like 5k and 10k and do good in only them, I'd believe their clean. But to race everything from a 1500m to 21k in world class times and even faster than runners who specialize in distances like the 1500m/mile/21k... Sure as hell I'll think your a doper!

Zuma123 wrote:

LM wrote:

Generalized LRC Logic:

Run slow and struggle and you just suck or don't have the fitness to compete. Or you are just a gutless runner

Win slow races with a kick and clearly you don't have good fitness and will just get smoked in a good, fast race.

Run fast but can't win races...you have no killer instinct or wheels

Run fast and win everything...must be a doper.

No, if he and Mo focused on one or two distances like 5k and 10k and do good in only them, I'd believe their clean. But to race everything from a 1500m to 21k in world class times and even faster than runners who specialize in distances like the 1500m/mile/21k... Sure as hell I'll think your a doper!

I'm not saying everyone will do it. But I'm confident that for each situation you will have a good number of people falling in those camps.

With respect to Farah, he has dropped that VERY good 3:28, but still doesn't have any other blazing times to his name. It's possible he is more of a 1500/5000 type guy after all with good enough endurance for 10000.

I'm curious to see how he handles London though.

Zuma123 wrote:

No, if he and Mo focused on one or two distances like 5k and 10k and do good in only them, I'd believe their clean. But to race everything from a 1500m to 21k ...

That makes no sense.

LM wrote:

Generalized LRC Logic:

Run slow and struggle and you just suck or don't have the fitness to compete. Or you are just a gutless runner

Win slow races with a kick and clearly you don't have good fitness and will just get smoked in a good, fast race.

Run fast but can't win races...you have no killer instinct or wheels

Run fast and win everything...must be a doper.

Not everyone on LR holds all those opinions. You just read each one from a different poster because people have different opinions...

Anyway I'm happy for Galen but I don't think he'll run a faster time outdoors. Hope he proves me wrong.

Rats are funny when they squirm in a trap.

This was a 13:01.26 trap.

Hardloper wrote:

Zuma123 wrote:

No, if he and Mo focused on one or two distances like 5k and 10k and do good in only them, I'd believe their clean. But to race everything from a 1500m to 21k ...

That makes no sense.

Why not?

WOW !!!

that is an incredible run !!!

i'm pretty sure you can knock off ~ 10s for indoors/outdoors for 5k, so this is an outdoor 5k approaching

12'50 !!!

i said coupla years ago he was in ~ 12'45 shape

if he keeps this form up, he will demolish 12'45

he shoud even make a run at 12'40 at season peak once he's incorporated the speed-work

Wrong. Rupp is an indoor specialist

Does anyone know how many American born runners have run sub 13min 5km in America or how many times sub 13min 5km has been run in America.Congrats on having a runner who has the ability to compete with the East Africans a pity that track loses a lot of runners to the marathon.HHe is still young and hopefully he can bring his times down some more.

America needs to find marathoners though.

asu guy wrote:

Dennis Reynolds 2.0 wrote:

It's January 16th at some rink dink meet that doesn't matter. Galen Rupp = New Alan Webb

Except with a Silver Olympic Medal, so not the same at all :)

The slowest Olympic 10k final silver medal in aeons, to be more exact.