Rupp said that the pain has come and gone for the last several months. “It’s happened before, at the Peachtree race last year and the Great North Run, and I bounced back pretty quick.” “Unfortunately it kind of came back a little bit there, but I’ve been getting a lot of treatment, taking care of it and I'm still super optimistic,” he said. Rupp said he was dealing with a familiar pain at a spot in his lower back/upper glute, which resurfaced during the race. He was 21 seconds behind winner Nico Montañez. He had an uncharacteristically tough race, finishing seventh in 43:31 after leading for much of the 9.3 miles.

Rupp made his season debut at the Gate River Run, which served as the USATF 15K Championships, on March 5 in Jacksonville, Florida. He’s optimistic after coming back from a tough race Grant Fisher Sets American Record in 10,000 Meters.I had confidence that they were going to come back. I was keeping an eye on the clock, really I was right where I wanted to be. “But talking with Mike Smith beforehand, we really wanted to be cautious going out that first half. “Normally I like to be right up there,” Rupp told WMAQ after the race. He rejoined the lead group by the 25K point (15 miles), when seven men remained in the lead pack.

By the halfway point, which Rupp reached in 1:02:40, he was in seventh place, 11 seconds behind the leaders. Then he patiently started to close ground. → Join Runner’s World+ to get the latest running news, training tips, and exclusive workouts! At the 5K mark, he was in eighth place, 7 seconds behind the leader, and at 15K he was 17 seconds behind. Today he ran the third-fastest marathon of his career, just 28 seconds behind his personal best. It was a measure of redemption for the 35-year-old Rupp, who was the 2017 champion in Chicago, fifth in 2018, and dropped out in 2019 with a calf strain. Seifu Tura of Ethiopia was the winner, and Eric Kiptanui of Kenya finished third. Galen Rupp finished second today at the Chicago Marathon in 2:06:35, just nine weeks after he ran the Tokyo Olympic Marathon in Sapporo, Japan, and finished eighth.

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