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Byline: George Schroeder The Register-Guard
BEAVERTON - At 10:21 on an overcast morning, Galen Rupp begins the hardest workout of the week. They planned to get started around 10, but "we always get started late," Alberto Salazar says.
This is perhaps the last thing that's not calibrated like clockwork.
It is 68.7 degrees with 53 percent humidity. The six-mile tempo run is run at a pace well under five minutes per mile - the goal is 4:52. Salazar precisely measured the path around the grass field, placing orange cones every 35 yards around the perimeter. As Rupp runs, accompanied on some laps by assistant coach Julius Achon, others by Joaquin Chapa, Salazar consults a stopwatch, calls out splits and yells encouragement.
"Good job, guys, excellent! One-thirty-five!"
"Four miles, Nineteen-twenty-eight. Two miles to go!"
"One-thirty-seven. Good."
"OK, this is five miles, one to go. Be tough! Come on!"
In the final laps, Rupp's face is strained, his breathing heavy. But he holds the pace, and nearly perfect form,...
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