Will Rupp finally take the white-guy 5k record from .Dieter Baumann at The Pre Clasic?

Nope ... 13:12 ... raising babies = endless sleepless nights

What about breaking Craig Mottram's 12:55?

Rupp will be a DNS

Bubbadeeboo wrote:

Dieter had the toothpaste drug bust, so maybe the record shouldn't be his.

Rupp needs to get a qualifier time, so the pace should atleast be quick. 6 sub 13 guys in the race, will Rupp get sub 12:54?

Is their PR sub13 or are they actually sub 13 guys?

No Pears wrote:

Nope ... 13:12 ... raising babies = endless sleepless nights

Please. How "hands on" do you really think Farah and Rupp are as parents? Farah spends half the year in Kenya; Rupp sleeps in an altitude tent. You think they're getting up to heat up formula?

might not be rcs wrote:

You think they're getting up to heat up formula?

Formula?!?

The only idiots still using formula are the ones who got boob jobs or Red Staters.

I wouldn't bet against a 13:05 plus.

Bubbadeeboo wrote:

Dieter had the toothpaste drug bust, so maybe the record shouldn't be his.

Rupp needs to get a qualifier time, so the pace should atleast be quick. 6 sub 13 guys in the race, will Rupp get sub 12:54?

Hicham El Guerrouj ran 12:50.24.

lol lol lol lol wrote:

Bubbadeeboo wrote:

Dieter had the toothpaste drug bust, so maybe the record shouldn't be his.

Rupp needs to get a qualifier time, so the pace should atleast be quick. 6 sub 13 guys in the race, will Rupp get sub 12:54?

Hicham El Guerrouj ran 12:50.24.

Brahim Lahlafi ran 12:49.28.

Critical Thinking wrote:

lol lol lol lol wrote:

Hicham El Guerrouj ran 12:50.24.

Brahim Lahlafi ran 12:49.28.

Gerry Lindgren ran 12:36 en route to his 16:08 4 mile course record at Mt Sac.

Rupp will jog a 13:07...still putting down a huge base for the main part of the season. He'll be ready for WCs later this summer.

^ good points, i should have said non-african descent record

Some good runners will be in the mix:

Men’s 5000 Meters Personal Best

Isiah Kiplangat Koech (Kenya) 12:48.64

Yenew Alamirew (Ethiopia) 12:48.77

Edwin Cheruiyot Soi (Kenya) 12:51.34

Albert Rop (Bahrain) 12:51.96

Bernard Lagat (USA) 12:53.60

Galen Rupp (USA) 12:58.90

Lawi Lalang (Kenya) 13:00.95

Collis Birmingham (Australia) 13:09.57

... And it wasn't Farah was in shape to run 12:54 at this race a few years ago, so I think there's a chance (rupp has bettered farah's 10k... And I think rupp could match Farah's 'racing' pr with a time-trial attempt). But i haven't seen any news about pace setters for this race though

Critical Thinking wrote:

lol lol lol lol wrote:

Hicham El Guerrouj ran 12:50.24.

Brahim Lahlafi ran 12:49.28.

Thanks--my bad.

Bubbadeeboo wrote:

Dieter had the toothpaste drug bust, so maybe the record shouldn't be his.

Rupp needs to get a qualifier time, so the pace should atleast be quick. 6 sub 13 guys in the race, will Rupp get sub 12:54?

I don't think so. I'm expecting him to struggle a bit, maybe even get dropped before the last 600. Just doesn't sound like his training has been good.

Here is a bold prediction. Rupp will run somewhere between 12:58 and 13:10.

Seriously. In his last 12 DL 5000M races going back all the way to 2010 he has run every race between that band of time. Maybe nobody cares, but I find that fact interesting. Both for good and bad. On one hand he has never run faster than 12:58 and the likes of Ritzenheim still hold a better 5000M time. That is kind of surprising at this stage of Rupp's career. On the other hand we saw last year he took time off for training to see to the birth of his kids, yet still came back and ran faster than 13:10. I find that impressive.

Jefe in the CO wrote:

might not be rcs wrote:

You think they're getting up to heat up formula?

Formula?!?

The only idiots still using formula are the ones who got boob jobs or Red Staters.

I wouldn't bet against a 13:05 plus.

Jefe, you don't have twins I'm guessing. It's not easy to breast feed exclusively with two babies. A lot of mothers of twins use formula too. Now carry on with the Rupp bashing and general negativity.

Was Dieter clean? I recall reading he was on PED.

ryan foreman wrote:

Here is a bold prediction. Rupp will run somewhere between 12:58 and 13:10.

Seriously. In his last 12 DL 5000M races going back all the way to 2010 he has run every race between that band of time. Maybe nobody cares, but I find that fact interesting. Both for good and bad. On one hand he has never run faster than 12:58 and the likes of Ritzenheim still hold a better 5000M time. That is kind of surprising at this stage of Rupp's career. On the other hand we saw last year he took time off for training to see to the birth of his kids, yet still came back and ran faster than 13:10. I find that impressive.

How long did the birth take?

I think his target is Chris Solinksky's US born mark of 12:55.53.

Rupp has no chance of topping Lagat's AR, that is for sure. He has no shot at Solinski's white boy AR either. Rupp might be able to set a mark for the 2015 fastest married white boy who went to U of Oregon but never graduated. I think Rupp can get that mark.