Galen Rupp's Post USAs Workout

This way, he can just do some speed until Poland.

Without this workout, he would probably have gone nearly 3 weeks without strengthwork prior to Worlds (assuming he tapered this week)

Here'sMyTake wrote:

Rupp as he often does, got in the specific race pace work with the actual race and backed it up with the extra stamina work aka 10K pace range work. I think it's akin to the notion of "don't forget who took you to the dance".

Too many people drop the stamina work from their schedules during race periods. Within the context of the total stress and load on Rupp for the day, the lengthened rest periods keep the overall stress of the workout lower than if he had run a 3K plus a traditional 10K pace workout with more condensed recovery intervals. Seems like a solid idea to me, especially as noted previously, there's still a few weeks until the dance.

Makes sense to me. We've seen him doing some pretty high-intensity workouts. It may be safe to assume that they've already done a boatload of V02 max/3k race pace work and now they're just focusing a bit more on the strict aerobic work by running ~10k pace. Besides, not all workouts have to be centered around the pace of the race you'll be running in 2 weeks. Seems to me like it was simply a low-intensity workout meant to keep his fitness/strength up.

Only A Matter of Tome wrote:

LOL at this thread! I have been waiting for this to surface on LR! Priceless how lame all you Ruppies are! How about focusing on the fact he got blasted by an "old man" instead of his workouts!

Thanks for the laugh...priceless

"LOL?" What are you, twelve?

First of all, the workout sounds like a good work out to me, considering altitude and Alberto's pattern of giving longer slower work after short races and more short speed work after a 5k.

Also these weeks before world champs are what you wanna keep secret. These are the weeks that people struggle with. So you don't wanna run your key work out in public, or at altitude for that matter. Dont give away your key workouts.

Only A Matter of Tome wrote:

LOL at this thread! I have been waiting for this to surface on LR! Priceless how lame all you Ruppies are! How about focusing on the fact he got blasted by an "old man" instead of his workouts!

Thanks for the laugh...priceless

Agree. You guys pretty lame. But keep providing us with the laughs.

K5 wrote:

Only A Matter of Tome wrote:

LOL at this thread! I have been waiting for this to surface on LR! Priceless how lame all you Ruppies are! How about focusing on the fact he got blasted by an "old man" instead of his workouts!

Thanks for the laugh...priceless

Agree. You guys pretty lame. But keep providing us with the laughs.

Your nose is a little brown.

Maybe Rupp will pull it together for Worlds but at this point I don't feel too confident in that prediction. Lagat can win a tactical race.

14-flat wrote:

It looks like this was a 5-4-3-2

That is my impression too.

Albuquerque is 5300 feet elevation.

"It is like a 39-yr-old Lance Armstrong coming back from 3 yrs off and placing 3rd in the Tour in 2009."

Except that Lagat never left.

So he ran a bunch of bullshit then did some drugs.

Eugene sump pumps wrote:

With how dead Rupp looked in the race, I'm shocked that they haven't figured out that he's crispy on the edges.

Fairly certain based on convesations I've had that Rupp trained hard through the USTAF, so not surprised he was sluggiesh. You can bet he'll be primed for the WC.

J.R. wrote:

Albuquerque is 5300 feet elevation.

Yes that's pretty well established by now.

John Clendon wrote:

K5 wrote:

Agree. You guys pretty lame. But keep providing us with the laughs.

Your nose is a little brown.

Maybe Rupp will pull it together for Worlds but at this point I don't feel too confident in that prediction. Lagat can win a tactical race.

Lagat is a great runner, he may win. Does that mean that Rupp should not even race? Rupp went strongly around Ryan Hill who is running his lights out right now and likely in sub 13:00 5K shape in a Rome/Monoco style outdoor venue. Ryan has very good finishing speed and Rupp went handily around him.

If you took Lagat out of that race and just watched how Rupp finished over Hill & Lomong you'd probably be inclined to say Rupp may be top 5 in the world right now over the distance, indoors or out, and maybe top 3.

Rupp should go to worlds and see if he can beat lagat as well as the rest of the best.

Did El G, Bekele or Geb do this sort of crap after a race

Naw I thought Albuquerque was @ sea level!

I would like to know that also. Especially, El G. With the tremendous amount of leg speed that he carried, I wouldn't doubt he hit the track for some fast 200s and 400s after running a fast 1500/mile. Overall however, it's hard to say if Rupp does this after every race. When the public isn't watching, what does Rupp REALLY do?? *suspenseful music*