Alan Culpepper
Alan Culpepper
Alan Culpepperis an American distance runner and two time United States Olympian. Along with competing on four World Championship teams, his accomplishments include finishing fourth in the Boston Marathon in 2005, winning the 2004 U.S. Olympic Trials Marathon and finishing 12th at the 2004 Olympic marathon in Athens. His 2:09:41 at the 2002 Chicago Marathon tied him with Alberto Salazar for the fastest ever debut marathon by an American, and remains his fastest marathon. Culpepper has won three U.S. Cross...
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Every time we tried to get going there was some factor -- weather, wind or turns. I think we all suffered somewhat from conditions.
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It went through my mind at that point that this is like the Tour de France, where the crowd opens up as you go by. It was really cool.
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The crowd's definitely going to bring more excitement for those that have the USA uniform on.
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For Athens and Boston, I had really prepared for tough conditions, whereas here you can just prepare to run the marathon at your pace,
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For those of us who are in it and make our profession, we're probably not as surprised as other people. We've seen this coming for a while. We've seen this building. I think it is a new day, for sure.
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For those of us in it, we're probably not as surprised as some other people are. We've seen this coming for a while. This has been a work in progress for the last 5 to 6 years.
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I feel like the bad conditions and the tough course is to my advantage, just because a lot of people are going to be disheartened when it starts going poorly,
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I thought he was some guy who jumped onto the course.