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American record for Rupp at Prefontaine Classic, by David Monte, RRW, used with permission

Larry Ederby Larry Eder
May 31, 2014
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Rupp’s Indoor AR in January 2014, art by the Shoe Addicts

Galen Rupp broke the two mile and 5,000 meter indoor ARs last January 2014. Last night, in Eugene, Oregon, Galen Rupp broke his own AR of 26:48.00 from 2011 with a 26:44.36, a new AR and world leader. 

He did it by negative splitting the halfs of the race, running 13:26 for the first 5k and 13:18 for the second 5k. Running the last mile in 4:06, Galen Rupp ran the penultimate lap in 59 seconds, then, finished up with a fine 58.5. 

Here is how David Monte, Race Results Weekly editor saw the race: 


AMERICAN RECORD FOR RUPP AT PREFONTAINE CLASSIC
By David Monti, @d9monti
(c) 2014 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved, used with permission. 

EUGENE (30-May) — The two-day Prefontaine Classic got off to a fast start at Hayward Field here tonight, as Olympic silver medalist Galen Rupp broke his own American record, winning the most competitive 10,000m race in the world so far this year in a world-leading 26:44.36.  His mark, the second fastest ever on U.S. soil, surpassed his own American record of 26:48.00 set at the Memorial Van Damme meeting in Brussels in 2011.

Rupp, 28, said that running a record tonight was not his primary goal.  Instead, he was simply trying to win over a tough field.

“Honestly, I wasn’t looking at a time until about a quarter mile to go, a lap to go,” Rupp told reporters after the race.  “Other than that, I was just worried about competing.  You know, I felt great the whole race.”

Australian Olympian Ben St. Lawrence got the race off to a good start, leading the field through the first 3000m in 8:03.08 before retiring.  Pacemakers Mike Kigen and Stephen Sambu of Kenya, and Dawit Wolde of Ethiopia tried to keep the pace high, but lap times crept up to over 64 seconds, even flirting with 65 seconds.  Through 5000m in 13:26.44 and 8000m in 21:32.24, Rupp stayed focused on his main rivals, Kenya’s Paul Tanui and Bedan Karoki who were still with him and Sambu, who decided to finish the race.

“I could tell the pace was starting to slow down a little bit,” Rupp said.  “So, I thought those guys may be getting tired.  So that’s when I decided to just go for it.”

With a little more than two laps to go, Rupp surged to the front, and his rivals could not cover the move.  He clipped off the penultimate lap in 59.4 seconds, and with his coach Alberto Salazar shouting to him from the side of the track, he ran the final circuit in 58.5 seconds to get the record.  Rupp, who said the partisan crowd helped carry him tonight, was surprised by his strength over the final laps.

“Honestly, I didn’t know what to expect coming in here,” Rupp explained.  “It’s early in the season, but my training had been going well.  I was definitely feeling tired from all the volume we were doing and workouts have been pretty intense.  We rested this week and felt a little better, but I was just really worried about competing.”

Rupp’s performance didn’t surprise Salazar, however.

“I’m real pleased with it,” Salazar told Race Results Weekly.  “His training has gone phenomenally well.  I’m not surprised at all.”

Behind Rupp, Tanui –the 2013 IAAF World Championships bronze medalist at the distance– finished second in a career best 26:49.41.  Karoki, who runs for the DeNA team in Japan, also set a personal best, clocking 26:52.36.  Sambu, who was only contracted as a pacemaker for the race on Wednesday, came home fourth in 26:54.61.  He recently showed excellent fitness by winning the UAE Healthy Kidney 10-K in New York City in a personal best 27:39.

Also tonight, Kenya’s Job Kinyor won the 800m in a solid 1:44.70, followed by a fast-closing Elijah Greer –like Rupp, a former Oregon Duck– in 1:45.30.  Erik Sowinski, the reigning USA 800m indoor champion, took third in 1:45.64.  Reigning world indoor champion Chanelle Price won the women’s two-lap race in 2:00.38 over Maggie Vessey (2:00.48) and Canadian Melissa Bishop (2:00.52).  Mary Cain, who made her 2014 outdoor debut here finished 8th in 2:02.31.

The 40th Prefontaine Classic continues tomorrow, highlighted by the return of 2012 Olympic 800m champion David Rudisha of Kenya and the Bowerman Mile.

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    Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys. Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."

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