You're Galen Rupp. You've just had a brilliant indoor season. Oregon has at least a couple of duel meets listed in TAFNEWS spring schedule. You're slated for a leg on a 4 x mile in April and hope to break the NCAA and American records, maybe Duck under 16:00. Cardinal would love for you to come down and run 27:25, but they'll settle for 13:08. There's the PAC-12 meet, NCAA Regional 5K, then NCAAs (do you double 5K/10K?). Whew! You're already tired just thinking about it all.
So do you fire all your guns by NCAA outdoor and take the rest of the year off? Do you hold a bit in reserve, run USATF two weeks after NCAAs then go to Berlin in August and maybe risk injury/illness with such a strung out year? Do you skip USATF and the WC but maybe run, say, three carefully selected races on the Euro circuit, maybe a 1500, a 3000, and a quality 5000, eschewing the 10K as Alberto has you focusing on shorter, faster races this year? Tough choices.
So do you fire all your guns by NCAA outdoor and take the rest of the year off? Do you hold a bit in reserve, run USATF two weeks after NCAAs then go to Berlin in August and maybe risk injury/illness with such a strung out year? Do you skip USATF and the WC but maybe run, say, three carefully selected races on the Euro circuit, maybe a 1500, a 3000, and a quality 5000, eschewing the 10K as Alberto has you focusing on shorter, faster races this year? Tough choices.
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