So if Galen Rupp had run Amsterdam, he would have been at best 3rd and maybe 5th?

Pretty simple.

You can not predict what he would have done there. We have yet to see him run a paced race.

I'm hoping to see him in London. He's a good tactical racer. It remains to be seen if he can be a good time trial type runner.

Rupp & his sponsor's / programmers have also spent more $$$ on him-- from high school age to present-- the rest of the field combined?

what's your point, dip$hit?

SAlly V wrote:

Any yet the top 10 all have faster PRs than him. In track and running time means everything. Sure, championships mean a lot but time is paramount.

Yeah and comparing times across different courses doesn't work; good thing we have the track to standardize things!

You know, the track where Rupp ran something along the lines of the second fastest 10k of the last decade. Faster than Kipchoge, Farah, etc.

These guys should line up in the Olympics or at a Major. They're dodging Rupp as far as I'm concerned. Why would Rupp run a second rate marathon?

check your head wrote:

On the one hand, Rupp has lost to exactly two marathoners, Kipchoge and Lilesa, both with PRs faster than Cherono. On the other hand, Rupp has beaten Lilesa, Biwott (twice), Kimetto, Abera, Berhanu, all also with PRs faster than Cherono.

Things are not as simple as you simpletons would like to believe.

Actually, he's lost to exactly three marathoners, you forgot Geoffrey Kirui.

Did Amos Kipruto who finished fifth, in 2:05:46, ahead of Laban Korir get DQed or something? Why is everyone skipping his name?

https://twitter.com/albertostretti/status/919507739226918912

Yeah but Kiuri lost 2 a slow Rupp in Chicago.

You’re correct, I forgot about Boston where Rupp lost to Kirui but also beat five guys with PRs faster than Cherono plus two more 2:05 guys. Still not simple...

asdghj wrote:

check your head wrote:

On the one hand, Rupp has lost to exactly two marathoners, Kipchoge and Lilesa, both with PRs faster than Cherono. On the other hand, Rupp has beaten Lilesa, Biwott (twice), Kimetto, Abera, Berhanu, all also with PRs faster than Cherono.

Things are not as simple as you simpletons would like to believe.

Actually, he's lost to exactly three marathoners, you forgot Geoffrey Kirui.

yet another fan boy that makes excuses.

Olympics are WATERED DOWN.

Stefano Baldini, gold medal 2004....what did he do outside of athens? oh and silver that year, meb...who has a faster PR than rupp, and yet you guys are all swallowing ruppy poops jizz and claiming he is better than med

so what medal is better? silver or bronze?

"but but but but kipchoge was in the rio marathon"

"but but but cant compare olympics to olympics"

your argument is about as f*cking worthless as the sh*t that spews out of vent/canc***os mouth

so when you do compare times to the EXACT SAME F*CKING COURSE you still make excuses

med ran faster cause it was sooo hot for ruppy pooop

then we have chicago and you all claim it was too hot to run fast, yet the girls CRUSHED IT..

no you can compare courses that have comparable course records and Chicago has one of the FASTEST times, 2:03:45 i believe and amsterdam is now 2:05:02....that is a difference, amsterdam might be as slow as NYC....so when ruppy poop runs 2:10 there more excuses.

for f*cks sake get off his nuts....he isnt as good as Meb. until he runs a faster PR than every other american he is 2nd place to meb in terms of olympics and 2 place to hall in big city marathon running, thats the truth

Rupp IS running his fastest marathons!

I think it's great Rupp won Chicago, but Amsterdam was a perfect race for him if he was in it. Open course with very few turns, and a huge pack of runners through 15 miles before the pace started to get hot. Rupp could have sat right in that large group and had plenty of people to pace from. I watched the last half of the race live on TV and kept thinking how this was a perfect race for those looking for strong time. Here's hoping he gets into one the fast marathons in 2018.

Gee, if only Rupp would man up and race Meb in a marathon (or three), then we might know who’s better.

We surely need to see Rupp against a deeper field than Chicago...

If he can beat faster people dragging them in a tactical race he deserves respect even with an unimpressive final time.

Comparing different races / courses make little sense.

If my aunt had balls she’d be my uncle

gee if you werent such a f*cking idiot....meb got silver in 2004....like 13 yrs ago.

so tell me how f*cking dumb are you? again explain to me how a bronze medal is better than a silver?

here is the reality to you f*ck stick fan boys. meb got a silver in the olympics, rupp a bronze. olympics are WATERED down versions of the marathon. you dont get prize money or appearance fee money, this is one of the MAIN reasons its watered down, two there can only be 3 entries per country. in normal marathons you have 10-15 kenyans and ethiopians.

why cant you f*cking idiots COMPREHEND this? if you are an up and coming kenyan/ethiopian and you are trying to make this your lively hood, do you

A). try to make as much money as possible in big marathons

or

B). risk a bad race trying to get into the olympic marathon and fail to get top 3 and f*ck over your chances at making some real money doing 2 or 3 marathons that year, or making the olympics and having an injury or sickness and bomb out with a 17th place and again lose out on potentially missing out on a LOT of money.

ruppy poop f*g boy gets paid a lot by NIKE, these up and comer east africans not so much. if they had the financial security to risk pay day to do watered down marathon (like kipchoge was able to) then you go the olympics and win with EASE and never have to go to the well. i know all you rupp micro pen*s c*ck suckers keep thinking that he was maxed out and rupp was super close to him...yeah ok....lets not think about the reality that kipchoge pulled away in cruise control and won with plenty of comfort, in a PR still way faster than androgel rubdown himself

you jizz yourself and claim that rupp is a bada$$ since he got bronze in the watered down marathon, and has run slower than meb, and meb got a SILVER at the watered down marathon.....yet somehow rupp is better?

Meb won BOSTON faster than rupp ran, and rupp got 2nd place

shit why not take a look at his achievements

Olympic Games Silver medal 2004 Athens

World Marathon Majors

Gold medal – first place 2009 New York City Marathon

Gold medal – first place 2014 Boston Marathon

Silver medal – second place 2004 New York City Marathon

Bronze medal – third place 2005 New York City Marathon

Bronze medal – third place 2006 Boston Marathon

so he has a Silver from the Olympics (according to you its the creme of the crop) and rupp only has a bronze

he has Gold and bronze from Boston, his Gold was in a PR, faster than anything ruppy poop has ever run. everyone claims rupp has a slow PR cause of slow courses, weather, tactical, recovering from an*l sex, etc. but meb got his PR and a WIN on the course that is "slow, and tactical"

he has the hat trick of medals from New York. so for rupp to overtake Meb he has to get a SILVER at the Olympics, win New York in a faster time, win Boston with a faster time....and then he is better than Meb in olympics and US races.

now to get GOAT status of USA Marathoning, he needs to have bettered Meb, have better PR's than ritz, Hall and KK....sorry ruppy poop c*ck sucking lovers thats the REALITY.

he is slower than everyone else in conversation of USA, and doesnt have the hardware like Meb, so how the f*ck can you say he is the best?

it almost gives me a headache to have to deal with how utterly f*cking stupid you are.

you saw what happened in the 5k at the trials right? the younger guys out kicked ruppy poop right? so your so f*cking dumb you think a super old Meb is supposed to beat the NOP golden child who joins the marathon at 31, and meb is 40? like come on....stop being so f*cking stupid, it kills me, like its almost as moronic as reading vent/calc***os rants

so when rupp is 41 and there is another NOP androgel rubdown with happy ending spoiled nike poster child brat who comes to the marathon at 31, and rupp loses guess what......people like you will STILL be making excuses for rupp

"but but but he is old, he still got bronze waaaaaaay back in rio, you cant knock his pr of 2:09:20 cause that was a hot tactical day, PRs dont mean anything only losers go for fast times, winners go for the win, and its only cause rupp is 41 thats why he didnt win, that new guy is lame he drafted off rupp and then pulled away the last mile, how lame, he should respect the GOAT"

rupp is slower than meb, and meb has better medals...and did it without the androgel rubdown with happy endings

I've long suspected Sally/Polly of being a Rojo troll handle.

Sorry Troll Attempt wrote:

SAlly V wrote:

Any yet the top 10 all have faster PRs than him. In track and running time means everything. Sure, championships mean a lot but time is paramount.

That's why Alan Webb is regarded the world over as the best miler of the past decade, yes?

Hahaha! Spot on. I guess the world remembers Emil Zatopek because he ran so incredibly fast, not because he won several Olympic golds.

hopefully your a troll and not a total f*cking idiot.

zatopek broke the 10k world record what 5 times?

held the 5k WR

20k WR twice

1 hr WR twice

25k twice

and 30k once

then he won the 5k, 10k, and marathon in OLYMPIC RECORD TIME

he was called the GOAT cause he went hard and WON....imagine if he ran the olympics and won them in times that were competitive in the 1920's?

no he didnt do that, instead he ran OLYMPIC RECORDS....and back then the olympics were not watered down at all. so again i hope you are trolling...but more than likely you are some ruppy poop lover fanboy groupie.