Rupp to run marathon in 2016!!!!!!!!!!!

LOL ... 2:10+ wearing a mask for Rupp. How does a mask fix uneven running sufaces--duh streets???????

Bumping this thread up again. I told you Rupp would be doing the marathon in 2016. Here we are. He ran the half marathon in December and will do marathon trials in February, which Nike will pay him a big appearance to do. Look for him to do the 10k/marathon double at Olympics.

He should have made this move a long time ago. He's never going to beat Mo at 10K and the 5 is just a total waste of time for him. More importantly, he's clearly made for the marathon and is our biggest talent, so get him in a marathon already and stop all this track nonsense. Face it track nerds, no one cares about track anymore.

With Hall and now Rupp being virtual LOCKS for the OT Trials I wonder why anyone else would still want to sign up. A 40 year old Meb is not going to qualify against these young studs.

This might be the funniest thing I've seen in a while:

Peter Ciaccia - the "Mr Outside" of NYRR's new two-headed leadership - seems more focused on building [repairing / restoring] NYRR's relationship with the local running community than he does on raising the profile of elite running in the US.

If Rupp runs Chicago, every exec and decision maker in NYC will be pissed.

No, you told us nothing. Rupp "may" run the trials, he's not running the trials...key word "may". Guess what, we all knew that already, but thanks for sharing.

a ducky duck wrote:

Bumping this thread up again. I told you Rupp would be doing the marathon in 2016. Here we are. He ran the half marathon in December and will do marathon trials in February, which Nike will pay him a big appearance to do. Look for him to do the 10k/marathon double at Olympics.

You don't know too much about running, do ya? No one is a lock in the marathon trials, no one. Webb was a lock in the track trials and didn't make the team, remember? The marathon, anything can happen and there will surely be at least one surprise. Rupp is far from a virtual lock, but I know, you're just being stupid. Thanks for playing.

Halleluja wrote:

With Hall and now Rupp being virtual LOCKS for the OT Trials I wonder why anyone else would still want to sign up. A 40 year old Meb is not going to qualify against these young studs.

tony da tiger wrote:

http://www.outsideonline.com/2046946/can-galen-rupp-pull-10/marathon-double-rio

Nice article. I wrote most of that in my post on another thread last month. Where's my cut?

reader of the forums wrote:

agip wrote:

hard to know what you mean by 'compete'

but ryan hall is 5:10, 134 which is the same as rupp. Shorter was the same. rogers was a tad smaller: 5:9 130

but if you mean 'compete' to mean winning major marathons, I won't argue

I'm the same height as Hall & Shorter and I know what I look like at that weight, and both of them are definitely lighter.

Frank was not 134

http://www.insidesocal.com/tomhoffarth/files/2014/04/SHORTER_Frank_1972_EL_T-602x421.jpg

Nor is Rupp

http://i.imgur.com/mI9m5sZ.jpg

Nor is Hall

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LYYC_fXu6Hw/To5R3T-oBYI/AAAAAAAABhQ/ofCSA7_08kk/s1600/Ryan+Hall+Nude+ESPN+Magazine.jpg

Shorter and I have exactly the same build. I'm 5'11" 133. If he's an inch shorter, maybe he was 130 or so. But physique-wise, we're the exact same look.

Yeah.. cause Haile Geb. was sooooo unsuccessful at the marathon, and his 3:52/3:33 affected that big time.