Per his twitter feed at 2:44 EST.
Per his twitter feed at 2:44 EST.
As long as Meb is still in it to win it!
At least we won't have everyone covering only Ryan all the way up til he pulls off the course at mile 14
MEB MEB MEB!
Shucks, there goes our chances.
touche, my friend, touche
https://twitter.com/ryanhall3/status/311910484884480000
That boy should have never left Mahon.
Maybe, or maybe his body would have broken down anyway. Training for and racing marathons at the elite level is hard on the body; not many people have long careers at the top.
Who's Boston? I thought he was married.....
e grant esquire wrote:
That boy should have never left Mahon.
I agree 100% with this.
The other problem is that Mr. Ray Flynn (his agent) is a middle distance runner that doesn't understand the marathon. He signed to run NY during the time that he was too hurt to train for the Olympics. He signed to run Boston when he was too hurt to finish the Olympics and was still supposed to run NY. Let the poor guy recover before you have him signed to run another marathon. He now has not finished a marathon training segment in over a year but has been signed to run 3 (Olympics, New York, and Boston.
I predict that we will be reading something in the next couple months about him running New York. STOP IT NOW.
Our story on Hall's pull out is now up.
http://www.letsrun.com/news/2013/03/ryan-hall-and-moses-mosop-both-pull-out-of-2013-boston-marathon/
The press release announcing his pull out was entitled:
"John Hancock Financial Announces 2013 Boston Marathon Online Media Guide Is Now Live"
Most misleading headline in history.
psychology 101 wrote:
He now has not finished a marathon training segment in over a year but has been signed to run 3 (Olympics, New York, and Boston.
Guy pulls out of more races than Rupp! Impressive.
Guy pulls out of more races than Rupp! Impressive.
Ha! Good one, guy. Rupp is such a loser!
Stick a fork in him. Too bad he wasted his best competitive years doing the airplane and the "I can't hear you" moves. Stupid.
No, he's a winner!
But he DNSs and DNFs a lot.
I read Ryan Hall's quote on the front page of LetsRun today and just had to sigh.
Make no mistake about it, I like Ryan. However, his window of opportunity to run another PR is just getting smaller and smaller.
He will not be able to run PR's forever.
It's fascinating that he pretty much admits and owns exactly what his situation is and then goes on to say that he doesn't believe it's the case. Call it an admission of the soul. His heart knows what it knows - he's done. And in his gut, he knows it.
The man was one of the most consistent marathoners in the world for five years just a year ago!
So he has one bad year and he's done?
Last time I looked marathoners continue to run very well into their mid 30's.
It sounds like he is finally healthy and still has six to eight years to go after world major wins.
He's an amazing talent who won't need much consistent training to get back to form.
Most of us would rather DNS than DNF; I'd imagine it must be the same for an elite!