How much does it bother Rupp haters that he has the fastest 10K time in the world in the last 6 years

scorpion_runner wrote:

Adola best time at 10,000m is 27 mins, but this man nearly beat Kipchoge and ran 2:03 in berlin!

Now put that in your pipe and smoke!

10000m means squat. Half marathon is a better predictor of marathon ability and speed, and Rupp has never run under 60!

Rupp has a bronze medal in the marathon. Adola doesn't.

Rupp has two Olympic medals. Mejo has zero. Rupp's best is 26:44. Mejo's is 26:56. Mejo's best finish at the World Championships is 8th. This year he went out in the heats in the 5000m. Even Rupp had no trouble making the 5000m final multiple times.

I can see your anger building as I tell you these facts.

USA 5K and above has been pathetic for a while. The only reason Rupp ran fast at the 10K was Mo pacing him (nobody recognizes that), and the Special Gels or whatever.

It's like there's a JV world of distance running, and the varsity that all the fast guys are running, and we don't have a fast guy. We're that crappy high school track team that comes to town and all their distance people have most of a lap to go and we're still on the backstretch.

Ask yourself:

How long would Rupp have stuck around in Kipchoge's Sub-2 deal last spring?

Could he have picked it up like Biwott did at New York, year before last?

Can he keep running at the pace Dennis ran at Berlin for the WR, after 18 miles or so?

Would he have been there in Berlin last week?

Common threads here are that Rupp just isn't fast at the marathon. He's running times that weren't even the WR in the 1960s. He's had success, sure, and I'd take it.

I agree with the OP on Rupp needing a 2:06 here. But what he really needs at Chicago is to be there at the end, or to win if it goes in 2:08 or slower.

Maybe no one recognizes it because it's not true.

Added to the excuse list.

Longer than Tadese.

Could Biwott keep up with Rupp at the Olympics? Answer: he didn't.

Longer than Kipsang and Bekele.

Would 26:44 be a world record in the 1960's? Don't look it up, the answer might make you angry.

As I said, he is # 1 in the USA, top 5 in the world? Doubtful. That’s your opinion, no more no less. Let joggers world, I mean runners world be the judge of that.

I think for Rupp haters that fact is canceled out by the fact that Dathan Ritzenheim has run a faster 5000M then what Rupp has ever run.

In 2012 Kipchoge wasn't close to making the Kenyan 10,000 team and Rupp beat all of those who did at the Olympics.

How much does it bother Rupp lovers that Galen hasn't run a marathon faster than this guy?

http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/alberto-salazar-runs-in-the-runners-world-five-mile-invitational-race-picture-id480978730?s=594x594

Remember when Solinsky and Rupp broke 27 at Stanford? Who would have guessed Rupp would go on to win 10k silver and marathon bronze?

top 5 Best overall long distance? LOL LOL

Are you nuts.

Kipchoge - a beast on the track - and one of the best marathoners of all time

Tedese - beast of a 10000m runner, possibly the greatest half marathon runner of all time - 2:06 marathoner

- Bekele - self explanatory

- Bedan karoki - sub 60 half marathoner, beast of 10000m runner, and ran his debut marathon in london with a 2:07 time!

Geoffrey Kipsang Kamworor - sub 13 min at 5000m, sub 27 min at the 10000m, sub 60 half marathoner ( 58 mins) , 2:06 marathoner - He is possibly the best all around distance runner in the world

Mo Farah- self explanatory

Dude , I can go on and on and on .

Now where in the hell would Rupp fit??????????????????????????????????

Rupp isn't even top 10....

Beautiful Day wrote:

How much does it bother Rupp lovers that Galen hasn't run a marathon faster than this guy?

http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/alberto-salazar-runs-in-the-runners-world-five-mile-invitational-race-picture-id480978730?s=594x594

😂😂😂 true! Not to mention that guy was a notorious heel striker!! 😂😂😂😂

Rupp is 28-low guy.

white girl appropriating ghetto culture wrote:

scorpion_runner wrote:

Adola best time at 10,000m is 27 mins, but this man nearly beat Kipchoge and ran 2:03 in berlin!

Now put that in your pipe and smoke!

10000m means squat. Half marathon is a better predictor of marathon ability and speed, and Rupp has never run under 60!

Rupp has a bronze medal in the marathon. Adola doesn't.

Adola has a bronze in the Half Marathon Championships. Rupp Doesn't. And Adola ran sub 60. Rupp has never run sub 60.

you thought you had a point, didn't you? stop. it's only going to get worse for you.

It's not American running fans that choose to tear him down it's the let's run owners and moderators that choose to tear him down .

To impress the lets run owners and moderators young posters follow along in hopes of getting noticed.

Otherwise American runners praise Rupp

silver medalbronze medalthat's tough to get and not even bad if you are over-rated. maybe if people just rated him on par with his abilities, he'd be rated as a multiple-time Olympic medal winner and not "the end-all hope for dominance in every distance event he participates in - gold medals only!"get a life

Donyiyo wrote:

Not a bit since he was beaten where it most matters, in the olympics over the same distance not once but twice making his faster 10 k time useless. In the marathon his best time 2:09:58?

I don't hate him, G-d forbid, but for a guy like me who has been following long distance running since 1976, I would say he is the best among the Americans but among the rest in the world...overrated.

scorpion_runner wrote:

white girl appropriating ghetto culture wrote:

Rupp has a bronze medal in the marathon. Adola doesn't.

Adola has a bronze in the Half Marathon Championships. Rupp Doesn't. And Adola ran sub 60. Rupp has never run sub 60.

you thought you had a point, didn't you? stop. it's only going to get worse for you.

Billions of people watch the Olympics. Thousands of people watch the World Half Marathon Championships. Galen has two medals from the Olympics. Adola doesn't. Galen needs an army of haters to rationalize away his success.

Ritz has faster times at 5000m (former American record), half marathon (60:00 in a tactical race, plenty of others to back that up), and marathon (2:07:47).

He's got 2 seconds on him at the 5, 30 at half, 2:11 at marathon.

The 10000m time of Rupp is very fast but the 10 is hardly ever run at the elite level outside of championships now, which is why his time has stood up.

I can't speak for all Rupp haters, but generally it doesn't bother us that much.

Donyiyo wrote:

Beautiful Day wrote:

How much does it bother Rupp lovers that Galen hasn't run a marathon faster than this guy?

http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/alberto-salazar-runs-in-the-runners-world-five-mile-invitational-race-picture-id480978730?s=594x594

😂😂😂 true! Not to mention that guy was a notorious heel striker!! 😂😂😂😂

And barely beat Dick Beardsley at Boston, whose 10k PR was about 2 minutes slower than Salazar's.