What a shame. I really wanted to see him face off against Lagat. I'm very surprised he's willing to skip this chance at a national title against real competition just for Paris.
What a shame. I really wanted to see him face off against Lagat. I'm very surprised he's willing to skip this chance at a national title against real competition just for Paris.
GoldenMiles wrote:
What a shame. I really wanted to see him face off against Lagat. I'm very surprised he's willing to skip this chance at a national title against real competition just for Paris.
Are you serious? He has a chance to blaze (sub-12:55) in Paris against the REAL best in the world. The dude is in amazing shape (maybe the best shape of his career) and has only a couple chances to race all out before his wife gives birth.
yes. He's afraid of losing to Lagat again. Ducking the domestic competition
uphill run wrote:
GoldenMiles wrote:What a shame. I really wanted to see him face off against Lagat. I'm very surprised he's willing to skip this chance at a national title against real competition just for Paris.
Are you serious? He has a chance to blaze (sub-12:55) in Paris against the REAL best in the world. The dude is in amazing shape (maybe the best shape of his career) and has only a couple chances to race all out before his wife gives birth.
How much do you guys think a competitive 5K over one full week prior,would potentially reduce his Paris time? Genuine question.
X-Fit Douche wrote:
yes. He's afraid of losing to Lagat again. Ducking the domestic competition
Rupp races Lagat at 5000, Rupp races Lagat at 3000...
How many times has Lagat raced Rupp at 10000m?
uphill run wrote:
Are you serious? He has a chance to blaze (sub-12:55) in Paris against the REAL best in the world. The dude is in amazing shape (maybe the best shape of his career) and has only a couple chances to race all out before his wife gives birth.
The twins will more than likely be born by c-section a few weeks early. Small woman, twins, first pregnancy. The doctor won't make her suffer through a full term. There is no reason to force that.
How many times has Rupp raced Lagat in 1500m?
The Champ wrote:
[quote]X-Fit Douche wrote:
Rupp races Lagat at 5000, Rupp races Lagat at 3000...
How many times has Lagat raced Rupp at 10000m?
RUPP CRUSHED LAGAT AT THE 2012 OLYMPIC TRIALS... DON'T EVER FORGET THAT... WHEN HE WANTS TO PEAK, LAGAT IS HIS BEATCH.
How many times has Lagat raced a 1500M the past few years?
Lagat has basically been a 5000M specialist for a good four years now.
GoldenMiles wrote:
uphill run wrote:Are you serious? He has a chance to blaze (sub-12:55) in Paris against the REAL best in the world. The dude is in amazing shape (maybe the best shape of his career) and has only a couple chances to race all out before his wife gives birth.
How much do you guys think a competitive 5K over one full week prior,would potentially reduce his Paris time? Genuine question.
The genuine answer is that doubling 10k/5k is certainly not ideal one week before a target race. It's Rupp's call to put a greater priority on keeping his national title streak going at 10k. He's earned it.
If Lagat wants to run against Rupp at 5000m he could have tried to enter Oslo or Paris himself. If Lagat is no longer a sub-13 5000M guy, then he's just not as good as Rupp at that distance and there's nothing really worth talking about.
its a free world wrote:
If Lagat wants to run against Rupp at 5000m he could have tried to enter Oslo or Paris himself.
You have it backwards. Rupp is the one who has to work his schedule to run against Lagat. Lagat gets that privilege because of his record--recent and all-time--against Rupp.
Being an athlete, I'd think Rupp would be anti-drugs and like to see his wife deliver naturally, just like he does.
Rupp's Schedule wrote:
its a free world wrote:If Lagat wants to run against Rupp at 5000m he could have tried to enter Oslo or Paris himself.
You have it backwards. Rupp is the one who has to work his schedule to run against Lagat. Lagat gets that privilege because of his record--recent and all-time--against Rupp.
I just stated a fact about what Lagat could do.
As for your opinion about what Rupp "has to" do: evidently not.
moon moon moon, my nightlight wrote:
Being an athlete, I'd think Rupp would be anti-drugs and like to see his wife deliver naturally, just like he does.
That won't happen. A natural birth of twins is very high risk for a small woman's first time. There are other reasons to prefer c-section to natural.
Do we know if Lagat is running the 5 in Paris himself?
The doctor likely will do a c-section early but the fact is that all kinds of problems are caused by not going to 40 weeks. On the early side of what they used to call a full term pregnancy (37-40 weeks), those several weeks early turn out to lead to breathing problems, lack of full development of the lungs, and sometimes other developmental problems, yet they continue to do it--and I'm not even mentioning the possible allergy problems from c-section.
Not running the 5000m here is par for the course for Salazar's coaching recently--he is afraid to get his athletes weak psyches bruised by running against American competition that might beat them. Even Hasay said that Salazar was thinking she might not run against Flanagan, if the latter ran. But at least Rupp took a national title. Having him run the 1500 might actually have been more beneficial for the Paris 5, getting the faster race and the kicking practice, but Sal might have thought he'd get injured or lose.
Star wrote:
Do we know if Lagat is running the 5 in Paris himself?
No, his wife is gonna run it for him.
Star wrote:
Do we know if Lagat is running the 5 in Paris himself?
He's not on the start list (just checked).
About 7 or 8 sub-13 guys are though. And Ben True.
He ran the 10k casue he wanted to defend his title and continue his streak, he has 6 US titles now, he won't stop that (kind of like Lagat and his 11 Wanamaker mile titles, and ever since he was beaten he's ran the 5k, 2 mile, and 2k there)
Plus Frank Shorter had the record at 5 for most US 10 titles, so no it wasnt becasue he thought he would lose the 1500m, he did it for signifigance
Also, Salazar has stated that Galen/Rupp have done 10k tempo's at 28:00, so that 28:12 he did was probabaly just another tempo run in his training block for DL Paris
The only person this entire championship who has made ANY effort to further US track and field is Alysia Montano.