Why is Rupp wasting his time with the Marathon?

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macdaddy wrote:

ZenDudeist wrote:

Rupp does not have a top 25 time this year in the 10000.

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Yeah, Rupp has a lot of disappointed fanboys. You're not alone. At least that might comfort you.

ZenDudeist wrote:

thejeff wrote:

You said he wouldn't medal even if he dropped one. You try again, scrub.

Keep your arguments straight. I'm pointing out a flaw in your argument, so I'm assuming your argument's premises.

Really, go read the book. Life is much better when you can reason.

There is no book mentioned in this strand. That was the other strand. You keep your arguments straight.

In the OP, you said he wouldn't medal in the 10k even if he dropped the marathon.

You also implied that anything you do is a waste of time if you aren't going to win an Olympic medal, which is not only false, but an incredibly and sadly narrow view of the world.

I'm out. Fun trolling you guys. I really do feel like I have a good shot at double medals. Al's got me dialed in and ready to peak.

Good luck. I am rooting for you :-)

Karma Police wrote:

ZenDudeist wrote:

In case you are not aware, on LR, we misspell "discuss" on purpose.

Why? Is this some sort of in joke?

You must be new here.

He believes that he has a non-trivial chance to medal in both events. Based on his accomplishments in the 10k and the nature of championship marathons, this is a reasonable belief. It is hard to say which event he has a better chance in. There is a full week between events, and he feels that he can adequately recover in order to be at his best for both races. Therefore he will run both.

Glad I could clear that up for you.

Karma Police wrote:

ZenDudeist wrote:

In case you are not aware, on LR, we misspell "discuss" on purpose.

Why? Is this some sort of in joke?

There are quite a few LRC in jokes, many due to a poster's stupidity (e.g. misspelling discuss, "leg speed velocity," counting trees, etc.).

kimani wrote:

Karma Police wrote:

Why? Is this some sort of in joke?

There are quite a few LRC in jokes, many due to a poster's stupidity (e.g. misspelling discuss, "leg speed velocity," counting trees, etc.).

Leg speed velocity is real. You can track it on the new Garmin.

Why Did You Run? wrote:

The reality for Rupp is: he is a father, he has a wife who wants him at home --not a Farah player--, he has kids he wants to spend time with. Running the 5k and 10k keep him on the track more, and in the grasp of Salazar. If he focuses--which I think is his plan--on the marathon he can do less track work, and do his long runs from closer to home. Less need to travel is another benefit of focusing on the marathon.

OK, clearly you do not know Rupp. He wants to be in the grasp of Salazar and he has no plan of his own apart from Alberto's plan. You have no clue.

The marathon will undoubtedly bring out the Respro mask, the only Rupp certified mask. The pollution is incredibly high in Rio and Rupp will be donning his trademark face wrap. When he wears it, we've come to loving call him Rabid Rupp.

If you haven't already seen them, there was a huge ad buy from an American company selling these as a build up to the Olympics. Respro is a UK outfit, but many American companies are now manufacturing and selling stateside (and in Rio).

Because 150 bpm, baby!

1984: Carlos Lopes gold medal (one previous marathon); John Treacy, silver medal (first marathon), Charlie Spedding, bronze medal (second marathon).

I think that running the marathon is, like, part of his job.

ZenDudeist wrote:

He has no medal chance. Probably not even in the 10000 if he didn't do the marathon.

Discus.

And he definitely won't medal in the 5k. What do you want him to do? 100m? Shot? Shoot you're right, he should probably stay home, I mean why run at the Olympics if you're not going to medal. Don't you just hate when people try things?

I will be shocked if Rupp is not top-5. He has a great chance to medal. I have always been ambivalent about Rupp, but after seeing how smooth he looked in his debut there is no doubt the marathon will prove to be his best event (if not in Rio, in the next 18 months). If he remains healthy he will get down to 2:05 in the near future.

He won't need to run a top 25 time in the world to win a medal, potentially even gold. Th Olympic marathons are always slow, and this is going to be a hot one, which Rupp will be prepared for. If Rupp runs 2:10, he'll medal for sure. If Rupp runs 2:09, he'll win.

Not in Top 25 wrote:

If he crushed the trials marathon, he has no chance. His crushing effort is not even a top 25 time this year.

Can Rupp run a sub 10 100 meters?

No, you didn't do it on purpose, you screwed up Mr. Moderator.

ZenDudeist wrote:

Discus != Discuss wrote:

While I appreciate your enthusiasm for field events, I don't think discus is in Rupp's future. Maybe Ryan Hall.

In case you are not aware, on LR, we misspell "discuss" on purpose.

Oikpkke wrote:

I will answer the question. While Galen has no chance to medal, he is not aware of that. He knows he has no chance to medal at 5000m. He actually did medal at 10000m, even though he has no chance anymore. The marathon is a known unknown for Galen. Therefore, he rolls the dice in the known unknown as opposed to the known known (5000m). Got it?

I like this response. There's also the unknown of both of them -- you never _really_ know what race shape you're in until you race. His marathon-10K training regimen might leave him really strong for the 10K, for instance, and he might knock it out of the park. There's uncertainty in the race -- who will fall? who will be out of place when the big break happens? where will Rupp be? will there be a surge-slow-surge yoyo like in 2012 that benefits the steady-wins-the-race strategy of Mo and Rupp?

But the unknown-unknown aspect of the marathon is really interesting. We know he's better at longer distances than 5K anyway. Maybe he's better at the marathon than the 10K. Maybe the marathon is really his sweet spot and he just hasn't raced it to find out.