Worse, he's often failed to reach the starting line: he withdrew from Chicago in 2010, New York in 2012, and both Boston and New York in 2013, citing injury or fitness issues.
He dropped out of the 2012 Olympic marathon after ten miles, and then finished twentieth in Boston in 2014. He's since become known for failing to meet the high expectations set by that feat the races he's been able to run over the course of the past four years have almost all been underwhelming. Ryan Hall, at thirty-two years old, is best known for running a marathon faster than anyone else born in America ever has: he finished the 2011 Boston Marathon in two hours, four minutes, and fifty-eight seconds. "Good luck, Ryan!" someone on the sidewalk shouted as he passed. And then you're surrounded by thousands of Ethiopian guys who are just, like, flying all around you." “So it's a soft surface, and sometimes you just feel like you're just melting into the ground.
They just go forever, you know,” he said. "You're just, like, crawling on these runs at nine thousand feet, and we’re running on these grass fields. He chatted easily, with his California lilt, about a recent trip to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where he ran long hours through the hills. He wore a white shirt, black shorts, and a yellow cap pulled low, from which his surfer shag nonetheless hung, nearly obscuring his eyes. Photograph by Jonathan Moore / GettyĪ shaggy blond man loped along the streets of Santa Monica early on Friday morning, two days before the Los Angeles Marathon. According to a June 26 Instagram post, he was even heavier not too long ago (up to 182 pounds) before he started a two-month weight-loss phase which brought him down to 165, still 40 pounds heavier than his race weight back when he was competing.Ryan Hall in the 2015 Los Angeles Marathon. Hall weighed about 125 pounds when he retired, and he now weighs in at 165. Hall has been at it for four years, and in that time, he has packed on a lot of muscle, proving that anyone - yes, even runners, who are notorious for hating the gym - can fall in love with weight and strength training. He also holds the unofficial American marathon record with a time of 2:04:58 from the 2011 Boston Marathon, although since it was run on a point-to-point course, it didn’t count in the record books. With a personal best of 59:43 in the half-marathon, Hall is the American record-holder at that distance. Since ending his professional running career in 2016, Ryan Hall has made an incredible physical transformation after diving into weightlifting in retirement.
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