Ryan Hall Watch: The Official Olympic Marathon Runner of the Underground Gets ESPN Ink
By Tom Chandler on May 2, 2008 in Underground Entertainment
We introduced you to the Underground’s Official Men’s Olympic Marathon Runner (and Fly Fisher) Ryan Hall in an earlier post.
Hall — the Big Bear, CA athlete who was adopted by the Underground because he fly fishes and runs like a bonefish — stunned track & field geeks in his marathon debut a little more than a year ago, and his recent performance suggests he’s become a medal contender.
ESPN certainly thinks so; they recently ponied up a long, Hall-focused article (oddly, they didn’t mention the Underground):
A little more than a year ago, Hall had never entered a marathon. Now, this modest, devout 25-year-old who grew up testing his legs in the pristine, wooded landscape and thin air of the San Bernardino Mountains has run three, each more impressive than the last, establishing himself as a medal contender for Beijing and one of the most promising homegrown American men ever in the event.
Read the rest of the article here (and don’t forget to send them an email demanding to know why the anti-jounalistic louts left the Underground out of it).
In the meantime, we’ll stick to the Ryan Hall story like a hungry brown trout on a streamer.
See you at the start/finish, Tom Chandler.
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