Rupp had no plans for a spring marathon as of the interview, but he did not rule out a late entry. “But I am hoping to be competitive here in the half coming up and keep building from here.” “I’m not expecting to be in top shape,” he said. He said he has been pain-free for two months - “a huge blessing” - but his training load hasn’t been close to normal going into Sunday’s 13.1-mile race. By late December, he was back to a reduced but “decent volume” of miles, training remotely from Arizona-based coach Mike Smith. He didn’t run for the first two or three weeks after the five-borough marathon. Rupp, a 36-year-old from Oregon, has taken it slow over the last few months. So, definitely wanted to go back, and I thought that a half marathon would be a good distance for where I’m at right now to kind of test myself and see where I’m at.”
“Even the half last year in New York was a little bit of a disaster. “Obviously, the marathon left a little bit of a sour taste in my mouth,” Rupp said by phone last week. He dropped out around the 22nd mile after it “completely locked up.” His back began really bothering him after 10 miles. Rupp’s New York City Marathon debut on Nov. The two-time Olympic medalist competed four times with two DNFs in the Big Apple (NYC Half and New York City Marathon) and, in the road events he did finish, results of seventh and 19th, all surrounded by neck and back pain.
Tokyo Olympic silver medalist and Dutch national record holder Abdi Nageeye will also return to New York to better his fifth-place finish in 2021.Galen Rupp enters Sunday’s NYC Half, his first race in four months, coming off what he called “a pretty rough” 2022. The defending Boston Marathon champion and has top five in Berlin, London, and Tokyo, and will be making his first start in New York. Kenya’s Evans Chebetwill also be in the mix, looking to add another world marathon title. Last year’s runner-up, Morocco’s Mohammed El Aaraby, and the 2020 London Marathon champion , Ethiopia’s Shura Kitata, will join Korir and Rupp at the start line. Defending NYC Marathon champion Albert Korir won the 2019 Ottawa marathon. Korir had previous marathon wins at Elite-label races in Houston, Ottawa, and Vienna City. His victory marked his first Abbott World Marathon Majors win. The reigning champion, Albert Korir of Kenya, will return to defend his TCS New York City Marathon title after taking the tape last year in 2:08:22 to finish one spot better and 14 seconds faster than his runner-up performance in 2019. Galen Rupp finished 19th overall at the 2022 World Championship in 2:09:36. An American man has not won the race since Meb Keflezighi in 2009.
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