Both Galen and Billy ran their fastest marathons at the age of 31. Billy of course took a much different route to get there and Galen might be a better championship runner but as marathoners, it would be very difficult to say that Galen was better. Galen was a MUCH better track runner than Billy but Billy was arguably just as good at the marathon.
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Your potential disagreement with me is not tantamount to me trolling. You posses a pedestrian mind and therefore reflexively label those who assert statements you disagree with as trolls. Broaden that mediocre mind.
Rupp has a GOOD 10 years left he will win the Los Angeles Olympic Marathon in 2028 to close out his career in his home country, I say he goes 2:03-2:04 in 3-5 years.
douglas burke wrote:
Rupp has a GOOD 10 years left he will win the Los Angeles Olympic Marathon in 2028 to close out his career in his home country, I say he goes 2:03-2:04 in 3-5 years.
No offense intended as you have admitted some mental instability but Galen is not winning an Olympic marathon at age 42. Surely you recognize that?
Galen has peaked as a runner and he will never run faster at any distance that he has already contested.
On a related note, if Alberto knows Galen so well and understands the sport so well, why did Galen run at all? This was not foreseeable by Alberto and Galen? Galen will be 32 in about 3 weeks and he will no longer be able to set personal bests. Galen has trained so hard and for so long that the well is fairly dry. Galen is not done as a runner but he is no longer relevant internationally.
jiiaf wrote:
douglas burke wrote:
Rupp has a GOOD 10 years left he will win the Los Angeles Olympic Marathon in 2028 to close out his career in his home country, I say he goes 2:03-2:04 in 3-5 years.
No offense intended as you have admitted some mental instability but Galen is not winning an Olympic marathon at age 42. Surely you recognize that?
Galen has peaked as a runner and he will never run faster at any distance that he has already contested.
He just set his Half Marathon best a couple of weeks ago (59:47) nothing magical about 31 years and 49 weeks and 32, Salazar said he purposely set up Rupp's training so he would have Longevity, Lagat ran 5000 on the Track in 13:06 at age 41-42 and 13:06 is probabably superior to a 2:09 Marathon.
Kenneth Mungara ran a 2:09.04 Marathon at age 43 and Rupp is better than him.
douglas burke wrote:
Rupp has a GOOD 10 years left he will win the Los Angeles Olympic Marathon in 2028 to close out his career in his home country, I say he goes 2:03-2:04 in 3-5 years.
LA is a Pollen City. Rupp will DNS. If he ran expect a 3:01 time.
jiiaf wrote:
On a related note, if Alberto knows Galen so well and understands the sport so well, why did Galen run at all? This was not foreseeable by Alberto and Galen? Galen will be 32 in about 3 weeks and he will no longer be able to set personal bests. Galen has trained so hard and for so long that the well is fairly dry. Galen is not done as a runner but he is no longer relevant internationally.
Because, family-man Rupp was not staying in Boston and then hopping over to London in a few days--something Hasay may well do. Salazar didn't have a workable alternative plan for Rupp. Salazar will let Hasay go to London without him tagging along. But with Rupp, Salazar will travel back to Oregon with him and run him a bunch of tests--the protégée must be rebuilt for the next run.
douglas burke wrote:
Kenneth Mungara ran a 2:09.04 Marathon at age 43 and Rupp is better than him.
Well he clearly is not, at least not age graded, and it isn’t even close.
jwiiaf wrote:
Your potential disagreement with me is not tantamount to me trolling. You posses a pedestrian mind and therefore reflexively label those who assert statements you disagree with as trolls. Broaden that mediocre mind.
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A 31 yr old Bill Rodgers in 2018 easily beats Rupp in this type of weather every single time.
douglas burke wrote:
jiiaf wrote:
No offense intended as you have admitted some mental instability but Galen is not winning an Olympic marathon at age 42. Surely you recognize that?
Galen has peaked as a runner and he will never run faster at any distance that he has already contested.
He just set his Half Marathon best a couple of weeks ago (59:47) nothing magical about 31 years and 49 weeks and 32, Salazar said he purposely set up Rupp's training so he would have Longevity, Lagat ran 5000 on the Track in 13:06 at age 41-42 and 13:06 is probabably superior to a 2:09 Marathon.
Bernie Lagat is not a good example. Bernie was a better runner than Rupp.
douglas burke wrote:
Rupp has a GOOD 10 years left he will win the Los Angeles Olympic Marathon in 2028 to close out his career in his home country, I say he goes 2:03-2:04 in 3-5 years.
Rupp is done.
Yesterday was a horrible day for all these athletes. Count the names of all the elites that dropped out of Boston plus the ones that bombed and you can't really assert their future performance out of a bad day (with horrible weather)There will be more races with better weather to come back. This was just a little set back.
I am confident Galen will eventually run 2:07's. You do know Carlos Lopes won the 1984 Olympic marathon at 37 in 2:09:21? So don't make the common mistake of measuring future performance based on age, you may end up really disappointed.
He's doner that a done thing.
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