RUPP - TRUE - MEAD - Enterened in Loaded Stockholm 5000! Let it roll!!

Correction, Rupp has 4th fastest time of the year in this field. Only Soi is under 13:00.

I have a sneaking suspicion there will be a handful after this race though.

I predict Levins will get a nice pr out of this race, 13:07 or 8 for him.

Milethon wrote:

I predict Levins will get a nice pr out of this race, 13:07 or 8 for him.

After his indoor 5000 and his commonwealth games race, he very well may.

I find it amazing that only has dipped under 13:00 this year.

5yrs there would be a slew in each DL. The reason is that KB

is no longer taking it out fast with everyone trying to

keep up.

We need a new 12:37 guy!!!

Any telecast? Would love to see this.

yyy wrote:

I find it amazing that only has dipped under 13:00 this year.

5yrs there would be a slew in each DL. The reason is that KB

is no longer taking it out fast with everyone trying to

keep up.

We need a new 12:37 guy!!!

Perhaps, but also it's probably not as exciting to go chasing times when the WR is seemingly out of reach now. I just don't think these guys care so much if it's a 12:51 or a 13:01. Ethiopians and Kenyans aren't setting any NRs with 12:51 or even 12:46 so there is at least some lack of incentive there. Plus, a meet organizer doesn't have a lot of incentive to pay out big for a 12:45 when it's 8 seconds off the WR.

It's unfortunate, but kind of makes sense.

The best chance for a faster time is for Rupp and Nike to offer an incentive to rabbits if they can hit certain marks. Rupp does have an incentive to get a PB and the AR. But can they find a decent rabbit? Where is Martin Keino when you need him?

Getter Done Boys! wrote:

Milethon wrote:

I predict Levins will get a nice pr out of this race, 13:07 or 8 for him.

After his indoor 5000 and his commonwealth games race, he very well may.

He really might do it.

Weather looks good. Hoping for a fast race!

I presume Nike paid Sambu to rabbit the 10000m in Eugene. Why not do the same in this race with, say, Longosiwa? Pay him x thousand dollars [or euros or whatever] if he hits 4000m between 10:15 - 10:20. After that it's every man for himself.

I think they already did it earlier this season over 5000, but the rabbits were way off pace.

Perspectivation wrote:

The best chance for a faster time is for Rupp and Nike to offer an incentive to rabbits if they can hit certain marks.

Rupp? You have to be kidding. Rupp doesn't have the money to payoff rabbits.

how about if the kenyans throw elfie a few hundred to rabbit the race?

yyy wrote:

We need a new 12:37 guy!!!

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there's no more 12-37 guys off the ethiopian conveyor belt

hermens can't pump them full of epo anymore

Uh hello, they're still running 5Ks just as fast as when Bekele ran, save for his one-off 12:37 effort. And Bekele wasn't taking the pace out hard, the rabbits will. It's not like Bekele was running 12:45s at will all those years.

dkny64 wrote:

Why not do the same in this race with, say, Longosiwa? Pay him x thousand dollars [or euros or whatever] if he hits 4000m between 10:15 - 10:20. After that it's every man for himself.

Because Rupp would be gapped by 100 meters

Of course Rupp doesn't have the money. Not with Obama in the White House. We need to cut Rupp's taxes so that he will have the incentive to hire rabbits and create jobs.

ummmm, nopers wrote:

Perspectivation wrote:

The best chance for a faster time is for Rupp and Nike to offer an incentive to rabbits if they can hit certain marks.

Rupp? You have to be kidding. Rupp doesn't have the money to payoff rabbits.

Ghost of Ronald Reagan. wrote:

Of course Rupp doesn't have the money. Not with Obama in the White House.

We need to cut Rupp's taxes so that he will have the incentive to hire rabbits and create jobs.

Only rich people get meaningful tax cuts.

Given that this is a Diamond League race and in Stockholm Stadium, Rupp has about a 25% chance of a DNS finish and a 25% chance of a DNF.

IF he finishes we are looking at yet another 13:0X result. If.

The men's 5000 starts at the same time as the women's high jump--and since that comment requires pics around here, you can start with Emma Green--and finishes just before Allyson Felix in the 200.

Is any actually going to notice whether Rupp pulls a DNF or not?