We’ve been pushing training as far as we can, but man, we needed to replicate competition somehow, so this was a great option.” “It was fantastic to get a hard effort in,” he said. Rupp’s coach, Mike Smith, came from Flagstaff, Arizona, to watch the race.
Rupp underwent surgery in October 2018 to repair a Haglund’s deformity on his left heel. “It’s night and day with how I look back then. “I feel infinitely better than I did six months ago, he said. Rupp said he had been concentrating on speedwork (although for a 10-day period in early September when Oregon was blanketed in smoke from wildfires, he was indoors on a treadmill), and that speed has helped his mechanics. The handful of spectators included coaches, timing officials, runners’ families (Rupp’s and Osaka’s wives and children were there) and staff from the Eugene Marathon, which has hosted these elite-only runs. It’s the same route Sara Hall tested out in August, running a half marathon PR. The course was an out-and-back, under a canopy of fir trees, about 40 minutes from Eugene. Tiernan came within two seconds of the Australian 15K mark, but he slowed significantly after that, finishing in 1:06:42. Rupp, wearing large black nasal strips that resemble eye black that baseball players use, had begun to open up a gap on Osako by about 5 miles into the race, and he had 42 seconds on him by the 10-mile mark. The two were paced by Craig Engels, a 1500-meter specialist who trains with Osako under Pete Julian in Portland, Oregon, and Pat Tiernan, an Australian Olympian who trains in Eugene. The field was only four people, including Suguru Osako, Rupp’s onetime teammate with the Nike Oregon Project before its head coach, Alberto Salazar, was suspended for four years for anti-doping violations. Stay up to date on the best elite running news with All Access to Runner’s World+ And I feel real fortunate I was able to get the 10-mile record.” I was hoping to run a little bit faster, but that’s just the way it goes sometimes. “This was an unbelievable thing that it was able to come together,” Rupp, 34, said in the parking lot after the race. These Are the World’s Fastest Half Marathoners.Galen Rupp Wins Second Olympic Marathon Trials.
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