"RML: Do you ever read peanut gallery comments about you and other elite runners on Letsrun or other running b-boards? Do you ever feel the urge to respond or engage in the ongoing debate about pros such as yourself?
Hall: I stay away from message boards at all costs. Not to say that everyone messaging on letsrun has no idea what they are talking about, but most of them don't. With that said, I think Letsrun has done tremendous good for our sport and continues to promote our sport in new and innovative ways. However, as an athlete I can't be reading about what someone else believes about me who has maybe never met me or has no idea what kind of shape I am in. I have to stay focused on what I believe is true about me and focus on letting that out."
http://www.roadsmillslaps.com/RML/Ryan_Hall.html
Hall calls out the letsrun b-board peanut gallery
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Nowhere near as good as Sell's, "If I wanted to know...." comment.
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He'd tell us all that we don't need a coach to be fast.
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Hall is spot on. Pros posting on a mess of a message board like letsrun would be like Tiger Woods picking out some random shmoe in the gallery at a tournament and asking them how he should play his next shot.
But it is also sad that pros won't post on letsrun because a few infantile douche bags out there think it is cool to bash on elite runners. -
Precious Roy wrote:
Hall is spot on. Pros posting on a mess of a message board like letsrun would be like Tiger Woods picking out some random shmoe in the gallery at a tournament and asking them how he should play his next shot.
But it is also sad that pros won't post on letsrun because a few infantile douche bags out there think it is cool to bash on elite runners.
Thank you Finally a post that actually makes sense -
Precious Roy wrote:
Hall is spot on. Pros posting on a mess of a message board like letsrun would be like Tiger Woods picking out some random shmoe in the gallery at a tournament and asking them how he should play his next shot.
But it is also sad that pros won't post on letsrun because a few infantile douche bags out there think it is cool to bash on elite runners.
A FEW???? Really? Almost everyone here is a dumbass who likes to bash elite runners. -
Hall has bad veneers.
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Dude surfs here 6 days a week, and twice on Sunday's.
Remember - Outside of the inner circle of Let's Run ... nobody knows his name. -
Amen!!
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Ancient Greek wrote:
Dude surfs here 6 days a week, and twice on Sunday's.
Exhibit #1 why guys like Ryan won't come here. They'd be better off hanging with belligerent drunks at a skid-row bar. -
Does he post on letspray.com?
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Yeh, this place is a disaster. I wonder why I come here. It's pretty much drama central.
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Don't question his shape, that's blasphemous!
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Quit drooling over Ryan Hall's maturity and grow up. Seriously. You guys look at everything the elites do like a bunch of kids looking through the window of a candy shop. Put your tongues back in your mouths, wipe the saliva off your chins (and the window), and live your own lives.
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salivation is at hand wrote:
Quit drooling over Ryan Hall's maturity and grow up. Seriously. You guys look at everything the elites do like a bunch of kids looking through the window of a candy shop. Put your tongues back in your mouths, wipe the saliva off your chins (and the window), and live your own lives.
Quit drooling over your own feigned maturity grow up. Seriously. You look at everything you yourself do like a kid looking through the window of a candy shop. Put your tongue back in your mouth, wipe the saliva off your chin (and the window), and live your own life. -
its always good to hear some criticism, even the elites need it from time to time. these message boards are at least interesting and funny and any runner, especially an elite should be able to handle that
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Hall has no Olympic medals and no WC medals, so whatever...
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Whatever... wrote:
Hall has no Olympic medals and no WC medals, so whatever...
YEAH! and, he's never taught a child to read, or balanced a taxpayer funded budget, or, prescribed the correct anti-biotic, or fitted joe six-pack into the right shoe, or changed a tire in rush hour traffic, or hit the porch with the newspaper on the first try, or, given mouth to mouth, or stopped the drunk from driving, or, thrown himself on a grenade, or cured the afflicted of scurvy, or... -
dotato wrote:
YEAH! and, he's never changed a tire in rush hour traffic
I happen to know that Ryan has actually done this one. -
He certainly ain't no Tim Tebow!
dotato wrote:
Whatever... wrote:
Hall has no Olympic medals and no WC medals, so whatever...
YEAH! and, he's never taught a child to read, or balanced a taxpayer funded budget, or, prescribed the correct anti-biotic, or fitted joe six-pack into the right shoe, or changed a tire in rush hour traffic, or hit the porch with the newspaper on the first try, or, given mouth to mouth, or stopped the drunk from driving, or, thrown himself on a grenade, or cured the afflicted of scurvy, or...
