Just saw on the Oregon Project Twitter feed that Rupp & Hasay are both running this year’s USA National Cross Country Championships. It’s been a while since either of them have run XC. Wonder how they’ll do.
It’s been a while.....Galen and Jordan are heading to Florida for the @usatf XC Champs this weekend.
#nikerunning
Queue the standard LetsRun anti-Rupp responses in 3, 2, 1...
imarunr wrote:
Just saw on the Oregon Project Twitter feed that Rupp & Hasay are both running this year’s USA National Cross Country Championships. It’s been a while since either of them have run XC. Wonder how they’ll do.
It’s been a while.....Galen and Jordan are heading to Florida for the @usatf XC Champs this weekend.
#nikerunning
Queue the standard LetsRun anti-Rupp responses in 3, 2, 1...
I would expect them to do comparative to how they might fair in a road race of that same distance. I'm sure they do a fair number of fartleks, tempos, and other training runs on trails, which should take care of the basic technical issues of footing and maintaining rhythm on uneven ground.
At this level, the mass start and early jostling isnt nearly as difficult to negotiate as compared to a big ncaa xc race, so I dont think that is a significang disadvantage for them, either.
The real question is if the course is Rupp certified.
+Evan Jager? When’s the last time he ran a XC race?!?
YES!!! This is the kind of edgier cross country the fans have been craving!!!
I thought something might be up when Rupp entered a random indoor track 5,000 during Marathon training.
I'm just happy that Galen is racing right now. I got bored with the Galen that raced like 2 times before Boston and Chicago in 2017.
imarunr wrote:
Just saw on the Oregon Project Twitter feed that Rupp & Hasay are both running this year’s USA National Cross Country Championships. It’s been a while since either of them have run XC. Wonder how they’ll do.
It’s been a while.....Galen and Jordan are heading to Florida for the @usatf XC Champs this weekend.
#nikerunning
Queue the standard LetsRun anti-Rupp responses in 3, 2, 1...
Looks like Hasay has been in Florida training since last week.
This is great, glad to see some of America’s best jumping in a cross country race. Cross country is the most fun you can have running.
Good for them. XC is good for them from a training standpoint and it's good for the sport to have big names running XC.
runnerdnerd wrote:
I'm sure they do a fair number of fartleks, tempos, and other training runs on trails, which should take care of the basic technical issues of footing and maintaining rhythm on uneven ground.
I'd bet they don't run on any surface I'd consider to be a "trail". They run a lot on the Hollister loop at Nike WHQ in Beaverton which is a running/walking path with a very even surface although it is a bit slower than a paved road. Other than that they probably run on road loops for MP tempos plus the turf surfaces on campus for recovery jogs and fartleks.
But apparently this year's xc course is very easy, so I'd expect Hasay to run quite well and Rupp to do alright. Not sure who is entered but I'm sure Rupp will get whooped by some Army/WCAP/ADP guys
I remember when Frank Shorter was at his peak he used to run US XC the week before Fukuoka every year.
Where is the 2018 World XC Championships to be held?
All I can find on the IAAF.org site is the 2019 race in Aarhus, Denmark.
imarunr wrote:
+Evan Jager? When’s the last time he ran a XC race?!?
I believe when he was still in High School.... 2006
It finally took Florida to find a golf course smooth and well-groomed enough for Mr. Rupp
pre841 wrote:
Where is the 2018 World XC Championships to be held?
All I can find on the IAAF.org site is the 2019 race in Aarhus, Denmark.
That's because there are no World XC Championships this year.
pre841 wrote:
Where is the 2018 World XC Championships to be held?
All I can find on the IAAF.org site is the 2019 race in Aarhus, Denmark.
It was changed to a biennial event beginning in 2011:
https://www.iaaf.org/news/news/47th-iaaf-congress-day-1-1Pumped to have this in the back yard.
NCAA Division I champs will be on this course in 2021.
runnerdnerd wrote:
imarunr wrote:
Just saw on the Oregon Project Twitter feed that Rupp & Hasay are both running this year’s USA National Cross Country Championships. It’s been a while since either of them have run XC. Wonder how they’ll do.
It’s been a while.....Galen and Jordan are heading to Florida for the @usatf XC Champs this weekend.
#nikerunning
Queue the standard LetsRun anti-Rupp responses in 3, 2, 1...
I would expect them to do comparative to how they might fair in a road race of that same distance. I'm sure they do a fair number of fartleks, tempos, and other training runs on trails, which should take care of the basic technical issues of footing and maintaining rhythm on uneven ground.
At this level, the mass start and early jostling isnt nearly as difficult to negotiate as compared to a big ncaa xc race, so I dont think that is a significang disadvantage for them, either.
The real question is if the course is Rupp certified.
You'd be incorrect. They do ZERO tempos or fartleks on trails. RARELY, they'll run in Forest Park.
jjagermeister wrote:
imarunr wrote:
+Evan Jager? When’s the last time he ran a XC race?!?
I believe when he was still in High School.... 2006
Ran our Alum xc race the year after he left school for Portland.
Certified Rupps wrote:
It finally took Florida to find a golf course smooth and well-groomed enough for Mr. Rupp
It’s on an actual XC course. About 1/2 is through the woods on a fairly wide crushed oyster shell path. The rest is through grass fields.... there’s even a (short) steep hill!