ryan foreman wrote:
Did we ever get details about the virus he had early in the season? It was unclear how serious it was, but I understand it was weeks for him to get over it. If that is the case, everything seems to add up. I speculate he has been healthy but playing catch up ever since. At this point, training and not running many races is the best way forward.
In any case, he looked strong enough in the 10K at USA's that Rojo suggested Rupp was doping to have such a performance in the hot weather. I doubt there is some injury. It looks to me like he is strong but the speed is not there right now.
Never got the status of his illness, your speculation is the same as mine
Probably got a lot more behind in training than he though and he's taking a very conservative approach, no need to rush things
I think he only ran Pre obviously because Nike
The only thing that doesn't support this argument although is I'm not sure why he ran signed up for Payton Jordan, because if the illness had put him out for a while I wouldn't imagine he'd be back into form the 1st weekend of May, and with his 13:12 at Pre, who knows if he would have won the race without 4 more week of training, he only closed in 56 mid
He's probably doing some very intense training right now, plus Worlds are in 4 weeks, he has plenty of time