A Brief Chat With Ryan Hall
Photos of Ryan Hall (top) and Hall and Deena Kastor (bottom) by Victah Sailer
 Ryan Hall, who won the U.S. Men’s Olympic Marathon Trials in November in New York City in 2:09:02 and ran 2:06:17 in the London Marathon in April, will contest the marathon at the Beijing Olympics along with U.S. teammates Dathan Ritzenhein and Brian Sell. Hall made his 26.2-mile debut in London in 2007 and ran 2:08:24, an American record debut for the marathon. Hall, an NCAA 5000-meter champion for Stanford, competed at the 2008 USA Cross Country Championships in San Diego in February, finishing fifth; he had been the USA Cross Country champion in 2006. He established an American record of 59:43 at the USA Half Marathon Championships in Houston in January of 2007. Hall, a member of Team Running USA, had set a U.S. record of 57:54 for 20k at the 2006 World Road Running Championships in Debrecen, Hungary, where he finished 11th. He was a national scholastic mile champion while in high school in Big Bear, California. He is married to Sara Hall (formerly Bei), another former Stanford star and now a top U.S. runner in the 1500.
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Source: Runner's World
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