July 25, 2005
Hey everyone! These last couple of days have been pretty rough. On Saturday I ran in the KBC Night of Athletics in Heusdon, Belgium. I felt a little better from my cold when I woke up and I thought that I would be fine when the race started. In the morning I got up and jogged a couple of miles with the Gouchers and then I just laid around most of the day in my hotel room.
Warming up for the race I did not feel great. I drank too much water before I started to jog so my stomach was a little upset but I felt better soon. Slattery started things off very well for our group by running a pr of 8:17 in the steeple and then Kara had a great race and also ran a pr of 15:17 in the 5k. She was hoping to just run in the 15:20s, close to her pr of 15:28, so it was really incredible that she improved that much.
Adam and I ran next at around 9:30. I knew that the race would go out real fast and so I was going to try and go out in the back of the pack and pick people off as the race progressed because lots of people would probably go out too fast. I got out real well and was in the middle of the pack and I came through the quarter in 61. I slowed up a little bit after that and was going to try and run 64-65 pace for as long as I could.
There were two big groups that split up after 600m and so I made the decision to go with the first group, thinking that soon some of the people would start to slow down. At a mile I was a couple of yards behind the pack but still came through in 4:11. I ran a 64 for the next lap, but then started to fade. It seemed like nobody from the lead group faded at all and I was stuck running by myself.
I came through 3k in 8:03 but was feeling it. The last mile was pretty rough and I ended up running 13:44. I was a little disappointed with the result but I don't think that if I could rerun the race that I would have gone out much slower because there was such a gap early on between the two main groups in the race. The B race, where I was originally supposed to run, only was won in 13:32 which certainly is better than my 13:44, but I felt that I was ready to run 13:25.
Adam ran amazing though, finishing in 13:10. He closed very hard and ran 57 for his last lap. Alberto made me feel a little better when he said that having the guts to go for it, even if you die sometimes, is sometimes more important than running a conservative, though faster race. Although I was really disappointed with my race, I was really happy for the Gouchers because they had gone through so much and had trained so hard that they deserved to run well. It will be exciting to see what they do when they come back later in the summer after another month of hard training.
Yesterday I woke up real sick and the cold that had started a few days ago finally hit. I spent the entire day in bed with the chills except when I ran 9 miles (very easy), and did some drills and stretching. Today we are flying out of Brussels and I'll go to Detroit and meet up with the PanAm team there where we will drive to Windsor for the competition. Alberto says that unless I feel a lot better in the next day or two he will scratch me from the mile that I am scheduled to run during the opening ceremonies and I will just run the junior 1500 on Sunday. Talk to you all later. Galen
17 Comments:
drank too much water, eh? i know the feeling well. almost as pleasant as the burp-tastes-like-the-last-thing-you-ate feeling.
hope pam am's go well,
ciao
galen rupp, you are my idol!
you know Galen, if you have the freakin chills then you shouldn't freakin run.
You made the right move in that race. Sometimes, it just doesn't work out, obviously. But you were aggressive without being reckless. It'll come around. Hope that cold goes away.
Hope you feel better Galen, we all want to see you kick some ass in the Miracle Mile feel better!
Adam
Sticking with the front pack was the correct decision.
Be well.
any way that you can post pictures too? ...please?
Galen can you tell goucher he is my hero! I have been dealin with depression and injury for a whole year now and the doctors arent sure if I will ever run again. I have been realy down but Gouchers come beack has given me hope that maybe I can overcome this too.
In all respect to Galen, who is teriffic. The real issue is not about a "cold" producing 13:44 instead of 13:25; it is that Joseph Ebuya (who is one year younger than Galen) ran 13.03.
The 20th time in the all time World list for Juniors, was set in Galen's race. Hillary Chenonge is one year older than Galen Rupp and ran 13.06.
Adam Goucher may well have had a great race, but finished 8th. Steve Slattery may have run 8:17 in the S/C but was 10 seconds behind the leaders.
As we know American athletes lag far behind the rift valley runners.
The only hope to catch up requires
"many" Galen Rupp's. These athletes
need to come into the sport young and we need depth.
You are my hero, Mr. Rupp.
Hope you feel better soon.
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Galen, if you don't mind, could you share what type of drills and dynamic stretching do you do?
Chris
Senior @ Grayson County High School
It takes a true champion to go all out for the win then to run from behind. You the man, Galen, and I want to be able to run as well as you do one day. I am entering my senior year in high school and am just coming off of periostias (However you spell it) in my right shin so I know what it is like to overcome adversity, because at provincials I got put in the slow heat because I dint have a seed time, and I won my 1500 heat by 12 seconds (4:16) while injured, so I am looking forward to this year coming up and am going to concentrate on running instead of doing all the sports like volleyball and basketball. This year I want to break 14:30 for our 3 mile tempo run on the grid road, so everyone wish me luck ~It is better to burn out than to face away~ send me an email sometime Galen, It would be awesome to talk to a world class junior runner such as yourself
it's track_baby101@hotmail.com
hey Galen, what were you running for 3 miles in high school cross country as a sophomore. i just want to see where i stand and how im doing. Also, do you know Andrew Bumbalough
Hey Galen,
You're like a god amongst my team and I. I remember after watching "Without Limits" one night at a pasta party, the ending had Steve Prefontaine's 19 and under American 5k record, which you had broken. We had a huge debate during the dinner that mostly was comparing you to Pre.
I was a little amused hearing about you being sick. Not that I am insensitive, but it just hit me like "WOW! Galen Rupp is mortal!" And yet, you still run a 13:44. Although, you thought you could do better than a 13:44, so I'm not impressed with it.
Anyways, I just made this blog to send my thoughts. I'm such a huge fan, I wish I could get like a big poster of you or something. My email is mikeyberkie@hotmail.com, so if you were to reply or something I'd really really apreciate it.(But I could definetly understand if you didn't, I mean I'm running in Highschool and I don't really have much time on my hands)
Thanks,
Mike
I noticed about mid-season you stopped running. I will assume you are injured. And you have not posted on this site in a while. Can you enlighten me with an update on how you are doing? If you wish to respond only to me, my email address is ocwarriortfxc@hotmail.com. I am a senior in high school out of Georgia. I am not the fastest runner, I broke 18 in my last race at region in 17:57. After overcoming, many setbacks I believe track season could be big for me. But anyways, please get back to me on how your doing, and maybe help me out with some training tips if you would, I would tremendously appreciate anything you have to offer.
-Robert Taylor
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