Ryan Hall back to 100 mile week

obsessed and unable wrote:

it's sad that distance runners are so obsessive. find a new hobby Ryan. Raise your 4 children or tell your wife to keep your little comeback in the dark until you are actually able to compete again. everyone expects you to run 2:06 or faster, so it's just set up to dive-bomb miserably

he needs to let go.

this will be ugly.

i really hope i'm wrong

Jbatl wrote:

Sara Hall Twitter reports a 100 mile week. Could he be a comeback story...overcomes low T and returns to elite level?

I'm pulling for him.

Pathetic when people say crap like this. The amount of time to run 100 miles is not an obsessive amount of exercise in general for someone into fitness. Good for him.

Jbatl wrote:

Sara Hall Twitter reports a 100 mile week. Could he be a comeback story...overcomes low T and returns to elite level?

I'm pulling for him.

One squirt or up to four squirts?

# wrote:

Ryan Hall's life matters

Maybe he'll run to New York and finally take down Wall Street! The millionaires and billionaires...

Over the Top wrote:[/b

"the full marry team at 41"

"Full marry" Who talks that way? Or is it really easier to type 'full marry'? It's actually less letters to just type 'marathon'.

Mrr82 wrote:

obsessed and unable wrote:

it's sad that distance runners are so obsessive. find a new hobby Ryan. Raise your 4 children or tell your wife to keep your little comeback in the dark until you are actually able to compete again. everyone expects you to run 2:06 or faster, so it's just set up to dive-bomb miserably

he needs to let go.

this will be ugly.

i really hope i'm wrong

Pathetic when people say crap like this. The amount of time to run 100 miles is not an obsessive amount of exercise in general for someone into fitness. Good for him.

Serious question: does he have a job?

A 100 mile week at 6 minutes per mile is only 10 hours. Even if it's a few hours more, it's not that much for a hobby and easy enough to fit in with working full time and taking care of your family. And if you're not working full time, that's nothing.

I do think they should just be quiet about it for awhile until they see how things go.

X_Fit_Guy_the_Real_1:

"Ryan is ripped now. This is what happens when you start sprinting, stop running long and slow. You're no longer skinny fat. Ripped."

http://img.wennermedia.com/social/cgk-c-yxeaeqxpy-2f6eb329-d589-4241-b9bc-f237085aa12d.jpg

Or Under the radar wrote:

Over the Top wrote:[/b

"the full marry team at 41"

"Full marry" Who talks that way? Or is it really easier to type 'full marry'? It's actually less letters to just type 'marathon'.

My thoughts exactly!

please go away forever

so sick of hearing anything about HALL

who cares !!!!

are you guys really that simplistic?have you not trained seriously? i refuse to believe, that even you guys, think training seriously as a 2:06 marathoner is only 10 hours of time a week for 100 miles.if he's just doing it for fun, yeah, it's not that demanding (100 mpw just for fun is a waste of time in my opinion), but i doubt he'll just be running 100 for fun based on his intense 'all in' personality. he'll want to compete, because he's a competitive duderunning competitively consumes you, becomes the primary thing on your mind, makes you question every decision to walk to the trash, go up a set of stairs, drink that beer. It makes you exhausted, and requires many hours of strengthening, stretching, massage, etc aside from the running. the running is the easy part

Sasquatch wrote:

Mrr82 wrote:

Pathetic when people say crap like this. The amount of time to run 100 miles is not an obsessive amount of exercise in general for someone into fitness. Good for him.

Serious question: does he have a job?

A 100 mile week at 6 minutes per mile is only 10 hours. Even if it's a few hours more, it's not that much for a hobby and easy enough to fit in with working full time and taking care of your family. And if you're not working full time, that's nothing.

I do think they should just be quiet about it for awhile until they see how things go.

For the life of me I'll never understand why people dislike Ryan Hall. There are so many bad people in the sport who have done absolutely terrible things in their pursuit of glory. Ryan Hall is not one of them.

Ryan has done tons of humanitarian work and now with him raising four Ethiopian girls -- I just give him a ton of credit. His work outside of the sport has been inspirational to me.

And beyond that, Ryan gave us many of the most electric moments in US distance running ever. He ran 59 in Houston, 2:04 in Boston, 2:06 in London, and the most jaw-dropping performance by a US Marathoner perhaps ever -- his complete obliteration of the field in the 2008 Marathon Trials in New York. His last mile in that race will last for eternity and go down in road racing lore as perhaps the best of all time by an US-born athlete.

The biggest knock on him is that he's too religious? So what? Good for him. Why don't we focus our hate on people who are destroying the sport instead. People who have destroyed other people and robbed athletes of victories, teams, and moments -- all in the name of greed.

While I doubt Hall will have come back, I wish him well and thank him for the magical memories. I still get chills watching him in the final mile of that Oly Trials in NY.

Super Marathoner wrote:

He already announced that he's doing this gimmicky challenge: 7 marathons on 7 continents in 7 days. That sounds like I'm making it up, but I'm not. There was a thread about it maybe a month ago. Presumably, that's what he's training for.

fhhg wrote:

Not as gimmicky as the 8 marathons on 8 continents in 8 days challenge.

That's good. Unless, of course, somebody comes up with 9 Marathons in 9 continents in 9 days challenge. Then you're in trouble, huh?

DJ_Pasty - very well said. I too don't understand the negativity toward Hall. It's baffling.

All he has ever done is try to inspire people by pouring his efforts into this sport...

full marry

he should declare himself LGBT, keep his twig and berries and get after Dibaba

He can always recant later on.

Jesus. Faith based training. He creates a crackpot image.

Reeks of self-righteousness. Why not focus hit efforts in his homeland?

The previous two points overshadow this.

So what? Good for him? He's the one who makes a big deal out of it. He would not attract haters if he kept his personal beliefs personal and wasn't such an outspoken nutcase. Nobody is ruling out hating on people who are destroying the sport. Do you think it's one or the other? Do both.

Good for you. Chills? Then you are a fanboy and sensitive to criticism of the hero you worship.

DJ_Pasty wrote:

The biggest knock on him is that he's too religious? So what? Good for him. Why don't we focus our hate on people who are destroying the sport instead. People who have destroyed other people and robbed athletes of victories, teams, and moments -- all in the name of greed.

So what? Good for him? He's the one who makes a big deal out of it. He would not attract haters if he kept his personal beliefs personal and wasn't such an outspoken nutcase. Nobody is ruling out hating on people who are destroying the sport. Do you think it's one or the other? Do both.

[quote]DJ_Pasty wrote:

So I guess all the athletes should be robots and not express their personalities...that seems pretty boring.

Do you think personal religious beliefs are the only thing that make up personality? One can easily share their personality without waving their religious beliefs all around. Many stars don't reek of this self-righteousness.

You probably another Jesus freak. Don't worry you can still go to heaven without being a self-appointed martyr.

So basically you don't like him because you think he's weird and has different views than you.

You can't read. It's not his beliefs. It's how he spews them everywhere.