Should Ryan Hall Give Up His Spot on the Oly Team since he's injured so that Ritz can prepare?

He has to go. Ryan is god's messenger.

Ignore these trolls Ryan, keep rubbing the holy water on your foot 10 times a day. If it fails to heal, it's not because god doesn't exist, but it's god's plan that you run with PF.

Hall was top three in the trials. If Ritz wanted to go he could have run a little faster.

No

yes, because 50 days is plenty of time to train an often injured runner by the name of ritz for the marathon and still hope to do well.

Of course he should. He's injured 2 months out from his goal race. He will not recover before the most crucial part of his build. Plus, it's the Olympics. It's not a time trial, nor a race to be RACED with a garmin. Ritz is a racer. He doesn't give a **ck what the pace is, he's in it to win it. Give it up Ryan.

Even if he does, I think Ritz should continue on his 10K quest. Being a fit 10ker isn't gonna hurt his 26.2 performance too much, especially with his massive aerobic base. 2cents done.

Same situation with Shalane right now.

YES wrote:

Even if he does, I think Ritz should continue on his 10K quest. Being a fit 10ker isn't gonna hurt his 26.2 performance too much, especially with his massive aerobic base. 2cents done.

I agree with this, even if Hall's position goes to somebody else. Ritz/Salazar have not yet figured out the marathon. They will, but in the meantime his best event is the 10k.

quality will be here wrote:

Same situation with Shalane right now.

Is Shalane hurt? Where did you hear that?

Didn't Runner's World recently dump on LRC for "spreading the false rumour" that Ryan Hall is injured? I knew there wouldn't be this rumour if there wasn't some truth to it.

Its not like it matters. It will be an african medal sweep so who cares?

anonomie me wrote:

If you have plantar fascia this close to the Games, odds are it is not going to be fixed by then, nor your training what it needs to be...

It's a tricky question. If your goal is to put the priority of USA's chance to get a medal at the top of your list then he should consider it.

However, it is every athletes dream to go to the Olympics. It only comes around once every 4 years, and the United States especially has a harder way of qualifying for the team than other countries who will just pick you based off of general good performances for the marathon. Also I believe it was either Ryan Hall or Brian Sell in 2008 who said that even if your leg is broken nobody skips the Olympic race.

Ryan Hall qualified. He deserves it. If he's injured and he feels USA will have a greater chance of medaling without him than he could give up his spot. However, he doesn't have to by all means and he deserves to give it a shot. Even if he didn't run from now until the Olympics just resting his injury it's been his dream and ultimately the decision is what he wants to do

The US' best shot at a medal in the marathon is sticking with even a not 100% Ryan Hall.

Peace Out wrote:

Didn't Runner's World recently dump on LRC for "spreading the false rumour" that Ryan Hall is injured? I knew there wouldn't be this rumour if there wasn't some truth to it.

I thought the rumor part was that he had already given up his slot; that the plantar fascia was true...

I 100% agree with this.

If it were me I'd go to the Olympics even if I didn't take a single step in training between the time I won my spot until the time I toed the line.

The Olympics is the friggin' Olympics. No way he should give that up if he doesn't want to.

PF seems more common these days.

Probably due to idiots running in vibrams.

It's PF. He hasn't even missed a workout, apparently, and you people are saying he should skip the biggest marathon of his career? It's not a stress fracture or a ruptured achilies for goodness sakes, it's just PF.

den bosch wrote:

It's PF. He hasn't even missed a workout, apparently, and you people are saying he should skip the biggest marathon of his career? It's not a stress fracture or a ruptured achilies for goodness sakes, it's just PF.

Yeah there are varying degrees of PF. a lot of the time it's completely ignorable

anonomie me wrote:

If you have plantar fascia this close to the Games, odds are it is not going to be fixed by then, nor your training what it needs to be...

Hall 2:04

Ritz 2:09

Is there anything else I need to tell you.

Hall could do nothing but take his dog for a walk every day this month and still beat Ritz in London.