Galen Rupp Says He's Got Unfinished Business In The Marathon, Reflecting On The Best Races Of His Career | CITIUS MAG LIVE FROM EUGENE!
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🗓️ 2 July 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
“After the (2012) Olympics, it just was such a big boost because for so long you're scrapping and fighting. I was 5th, 6th, 7th in a lot of these races and I kept saying, ‘This is going to be the year I'm going to get over the hump.’ For it to finally happen was just such a big moment for me, for my own confidence. After that I knew that I belonged and could really compete with all these guys.”
2x Olympic medalist and 12x U.S. champion Galen Rupp joins us live in Eugene to catch us up on life since the Olympic Marathon Trials in February. Galen reflects on his favorite races from his career, his experience competing for the University of Oregon, what his training was like during the peak of his career, the support he’s received from his wife and family, how he stays looped into the running community, and what it’s been like recovering from surgery a few months ago. Hear more of Galen’s updates in this episode of the CITIUS MAG Podcast.
Hosts: Chris Chavez | @chris_j_chavez on Instagram + Mitch Dyer | @metchosketch on Instagram
Guest: Galen Rupp
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| 0:00.0 | and but we're going to kick things off with one of the greatest distance runners in |
| 0:14.7 | American history the Olympic bronze medal in the marathon from 2016 the Olympic |
| 0:19.8 | silver medalist in the 10k from 2012. |
| 0:22.8 | Galen, thanks for joining us. |
| 0:25.0 | Yeah, thank you. |
| 0:26.0 | It's great to be here. |
| 0:27.0 | So I guess like let's catch up. |
| 0:29.0 | We, you know, Orlando was back in February. |
| 0:32.0 | You went a little viral, I guess for the puking photo at the finish line. |
| 0:35.8 | Yeah, on it was all over Instagram. That's news to me, all right. |
| 0:38.5 | And so then afterwards like I guess we didn't really see a whole lot or hear a lot about you after that race. |
| 0:43.2 | What's been up the last couple months? |
| 0:44.7 | Yeah, I was a bit out of it after that race. |
| 0:47.5 | But it was obviously a real tough one for me. |
| 0:50.4 | And I had surgery in April, so know just a lot of things have been going on the last couple |
| 0:56.1 | years and so you know now I thought was a good time to fix it and you know hopefully we're |
| 1:01.0 | passed all of that but I've just been rehabbing since then. I just got the okay about a week and a half ago to start running again, but it's super slow. Like I run for a minute, walk for a minute. I ran with Ricky this morning out on Priest Trail. |
| 1:13.0 | Probably looked like a scrub like jogging and then walking for a while, |
| 1:16.0 | but it's been great to be back and |
| 1:18.0 | yeah, my body's feeling really good. |
| 1:19.0 | That'd be great to see Galenrup do it, |
| 1:21.0 | just walking on Priest Trail. |
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