What now for GALEN?

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Thank you Chicknlegs for saying what we all think!

At this point it's a pretty safe assumption that he will not reach that next level required to compete with the top guys in the marathon. One thing he does have going is his 'pharmaceutical gray area' approach seems less vulnerable to olympic testing. I think he has a reasonable chance at gold in 2020. If Kipchoge shows up ready then no chance though.

Hvrifnwvsk wrote:

Hayduke wrote:

yea wow, he wasn't able to defeat the most dominate runner of the last decade.... so I guess he should be the only one who retires.

Well, he was also beaten soundly by Suguru Osako. It's not exactly like he finished a close second. 5th in a relatively weak field isn't a particularly confidence-inspiring performance.

Relatively weak field? Are you kidding me? This is one of the deepest Chicago fields we've had in a while. I'm honestly impressed with the elite field organizers and how many big names they got with a relatively limited budget compared to London and New York.

He mostly looked like someone who overtrained way too close to the race.

Salazar should send him to train with Patrick Sang and Eliud Kipchoge for a year.

But seriously.

This is a good point. He had achilles issues in training and that limited his max in this race, and not being able to get in a hard half marathon race meant that he was not race sharp. He still ran 2:06:21 in non-ideal conditions with too slow a first half marathon to get the American record. This was very disappointing for him, of course, but still a very fine performance. Khannouchi ran 2:05:42 and 2:05:38, I think. Hall ran 2:06:17 and 2:08, as his best legal times. Rupp now has two low 2:06s in 2018. Setting aside NOP questionable methods for the minute, this is almost as good as it gets in American marathoning.

Scorpion_runner wrote:

Chicknlegs wrote:

Most of you posters are complete idots. He ran a 2:06!! thats over 3 minutes faster than he won with last year. Go try to run 2 miles at the pace he ran for his marathon...then come back and tell us he should retire and give up. Letsrun is a great site but morons post here belittling elite runners cranking out world-class times.

get out of here with this bullcrap....guys on here predicted Rupp to mop up Mo, and to break the american record.

Rupp does not do well with paced races, and he just didn't look good.

Not having a warm up raced def hurt him.

This site is about $$$$, face it. If it weren't, there'd be mandatory registration.

So. business should be about something other than $. Stupid millennial twit.

One of my running buddies and I were talking about exactly this when we found out how he ran in Chicago.

What he should do is some crazy stuff like Yuki so he can become popular. Let’s be real, Rupp isn’t fast enough to be a household name. He needs do do some dumb gimmicky stuff go get popular.

My suggestion: he should run NYC now. 2 marathons less than a month apart. Real runners would love the grit that shows. He would probably even get a buzz feed article or whatever.

Rupp, you won’t be the fastest, so do crazy stuff to get remembered.

He’s a household name. He’s not fast enough?thats ridiculous. Holds down multi American records, 3 time Olympian , 2 Olympic medals. Your kidding me right?

Runnergrl wrote:

He’s a household name. He’s not fast enough?thats ridiculous. Holds down multi American records, 3 time Olympian , 2 Olympic medals. Your kidding me right?

Gaylen who?

zxcvzxcv wrote:

This is a good point. He had achilles issues in training and that limited his max in this race, and not being able to get in a hard half marathon race meant that he was not race sharp. He still ran 2:06:21 in non-ideal conditions with too slow a first half marathon to get the American record. This was very disappointing for him, of course, but still a very fine performance.

Khannouchi ran 2:05:42 and 2:05:38, I think. Hall ran 2:06:17 and 2:08, as his best legal times. Rupp now has two low 2:06s in 2018. Setting aside NOP questionable methods for the minute, this is almost as good as it gets in American marathoning.

I agree, if this was a bad day for Rupp, things are probably quite good for him. Achilles issues are a #*%&h trust me. It could ruin him.

I am not a Rupp fan but he could retire rate now as the greatest men’s American thoner of all time. An Olympic marathon medal, winning a major, and now two 2:06s. Who else has a better resume combination in regards to Olympics, major win, and time?

Meb is closest but Meb was not running these kind of times.

Hall didn’t win squat but ran legit fast once.

KK ran fast but did nothing in the Olympics.

Shorter and Bannister would simply get rolled by East Africans today

Rodgers not Bannister

Rupp has a 2016 Olympic Marathon medal. Rupp can’t compete with the top guys in the marathon. Rupp has a reasonable chance at gold in 2020. One of these things is not like the others.

ffffffffffffff wrote:

At this point it's a pretty safe assumption that he will not reach that next level required to compete with the top guys in the marathon. One thing he does have going is his 'pharmaceutical gray area' approach seems less vulnerable to olympic testing. I think he has a reasonable chance at gold in 2020. If Kipchoge shows up ready then no chance though.

Rupp did OK. Not brilliant, probably not quite what he was aiming for; but, 2:06 a bad run? Come on! How many people reading this could run three miles at that pace?

More pertinent for US readers; Rupp apart, why did all your other "elites" run so slowly? Have you any depth in men's marathon running now?

FFF wrote:

Rupp should race more than once or twice a year. It's ridiculous. You can run fast, run fast.

He races way more than twice a year. Last winter he ran track and USA XC. He also runs road tune up races like 10 milers and halves.

Lrc armchair officianado wrote:

FFF wrote:

Rupp should race more than once or twice a year. It's ridiculous. You can run fast, run fast.

He races way more than twice a year. Last winter he ran track and USA XC. He also runs road tune up races like 10 milers and halves.

Gaylen races more than once a year? Really?

Would like to see Rupp go for some fast times. Chicago is a pretty early season marathon. Plenty of time to recover and get ready for a fast half. It'd be cool if he ran the Houston Half in January or RAK or Barcelona in February, going for the AR. If he did Houston he could also hit a European race like Lisbon before a spring marathon. Would like to see him go somewhere like London or Rotterdam but he probably runs Boston in 2019. The following fall it would be great to see him in NYC but that cuts it closer to the Trials and Chicago is sponsored by Nike. The dream is that he does London and Berlin but more likely he'll keep doing Boston and Chicago.

Go home, put his feet up, smoke a bowl, go to the club, take a nap, then go for a run.