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[Ian]  Ryan Hall? Always a story,
especially in the US.

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[man]  Then 2007 showed up
in Houston in January,

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and he ran 59:43, first
American under 60 minutes

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for the half marathon.

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[Tim]  I must admit
I was very skeptical. I,

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I immediately thought,
"Short course.

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How's he doing it?
Is that real?"

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And of course,
he was the real deal.

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[Ian]  Ryan Hall
right now is on the cusp

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of becoming the greatest
American distance runner ever.

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He has the fastest half
marathon by an American ever,

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he's run the fastest marathon
by an American ever,

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and he's had success
at every distance he's tried.

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[man]  He's a natural
front-runner,

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and he loves to bury the field.

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[Ian]  Six times Ryan Hall
has finished in the top five

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in major marathons
throughout the world,

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and he's made to Olympic
teams to boot.

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[man]  He's just Mr. Consistent.

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[Tim]  Clearly you can't
put in what God left out,

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and Ryan has got
an awful lot of talent.

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The guy is very much
the real deal.

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[crowd cheering]

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[starter pistol fires]

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[Ryan] Growing up in Big Bear
was just a huge blessing.

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You know, a small resort town
in Southern California,

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right around 7,000 feet,
pine trees everywhere.

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It just kind of was
perfectly suited for me

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because I love to be outside

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and I love to just be
in God's creation.

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When I was growing up
I had big dreams

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about being a professional
baseball player.

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I wanted to follow
my dad's footsteps.

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He played baseball
at Pepperdine University,

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was drafted to play
in the Major Leagues.

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He decided not to go
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um, he felt like God
was calling him

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to do a teaching exchange
program in Australia.

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My dad was always
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was a very strong leader
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just followed
his lead on things.

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[birds chirping]

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[Mickey] The thing that probably

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most sticks out in my mind

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is the energy level that he had.

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Everything that
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And then he would collapse.
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His elementary years were filled

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with a lot of hiking,
a lot of basketball.

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Even when he was
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there was
a competitiveness there

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that would come out when
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not necessarily
in the classroom.

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Middle school started
with Ry really being involved

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in a lot
with all kinds of sports.

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But, at the end
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they would bring
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in junior high
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He got picked to run
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and he was running against
a kind named Gilberto Santillion

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and they had an epic race.
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as they came into the last lap,

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they both had this look
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like,
"You're not going to beat me."

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And as they came down
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Ryan pulled ahead of Gilberto

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and just beat him
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And I think for Ryan,
that was the first time

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he might've thought like,

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"Hm, maybe I'm a runner."

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After the school-wide track me,
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he told me, he's like,
"You know what? You could be

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a great runner
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And, you know, I looked at him,
and I remember thinking,

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and just saying, you know,
"That's cool,

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but I don't want to be
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"I want to play baseball
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while he was playing
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I would say
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I really experienced
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in a super-tangible way.

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I was traveling down
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and I was just kind
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in my hometown,
"So you know what," like,

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"I'm just being hit
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where I just really
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to try and run around
the lake in my hometown."

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He got home,
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and he came to me and said,
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I'd really like
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And I was really grateful
that my dad didn't just,

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you know, gun down the idea
and say, "You know what?

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That's like biting off way more

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than you should right now."

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It's about a 15 mile run around.

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And,
I talked to Ryan for a while

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and tried to discourage him.

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And he was saying,
"No, I really want to go."

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And so, I said,
"Okay, no whining, no crying."

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So, we, we started out
early in the morning,
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[Ryan]  I just remember
that run just taking in,

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it seemed like
an eternity to me.

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But my dad was with me
every step of the way.

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[Mickey] He was doing
fairly well going through
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But when we got to Fawnskin,
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I noticed he was
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And I was saying to him,
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path, we can just stop
and we'll walk, and."

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"No, Dad, I don't want to walk,
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And so when we got
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we stopped at the AM/PM
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and Ryan was saying, "Dad,

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I think this is
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You don't normally run 15 miles

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and feel like
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it's something you want to do.

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Come home, collapse in my couch,
just dead tired.

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The run itself
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God hit me again
and started speaking to me

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for the second time
in a very tangible way.

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And I really felt
like He was telling me, like,

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"I've given you a gift to run
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but I've given you that gift so
that you can help other people

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and love other people."

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And, uh,
I didn't really understand

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the second part
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[Mickey]  After that,
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[Ryan] I had started running
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My dad was my coach.
He wrote up workouts
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He really poured into my life.

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And that was really
important for me at that time

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because I was struggling with
friendships at school, like,

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because I wasn't doing baseball,

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basketball,
and football anymore,

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I kind of lost
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So, you know, I remember
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walking across the quad
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at lunch hanging out
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laughing, having a good time,
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from home and go
in my dad's class

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because he taught special
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and I'd just go
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One day I was
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and just feeling that kind
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um, I just remember at that time
just asking Jesus,

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I was like,
"Man, I really need You

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to be my friend right now."

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You know, it was during
that time of asking Jesus

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to come and be my best friend

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that things
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in terms of the faith
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[Mickey]  So after that,
it was more about trying

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to get him to relax and not
take it quite as seriously.

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Big Bear High's Ryan Hall
is one of the top three

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distance runners in the country.

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His resume has been growing

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ever since he first
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as a junior in last years'
Masters Meet.

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Ryan won the mile in 4:05,

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second fastest in the country.

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[Mickey] When he ran
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that definitely
changed his life.

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But for him,
it didn't change a lot

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except for he was super excited
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And then I think
he started saying,

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"Going under four
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[reporter]  Only one high
schooler has gone sub-four

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in a mile since Jim Ryan,
30 years ago.

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Ryan Hall thinks
he'll be the next,

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so much so that he put
his goal in concrete

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right next to the family's home.

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The point is I love to run

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and I'd run whatever
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But I really do believe
I'm a miler

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and I'm really passionate
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[Mickey]  Ryan was thinking
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and for him,
there's always that,

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"Yeah, I won the race
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[Ryan] Well, I see myself
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and when I'm training,
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with El Guerrouj and those guys.

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And my friend Tyree,
he made a picture for me

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and put me in the race where--

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The finishing
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so I have that hanging above
my bed and I'm in front of them.

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You know, I didn't have quite
the year I was hoping for,

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um, my senior year.
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of breaking four minutes.

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I remember in that last
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and they'd kind of set it up
for me to try and break four.

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You know, I was really hoping
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my day and I could break four,
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my peak and already
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and ran a really bad last 800.

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[Mickey] Done with high school,
ready to get after college

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and the college thing was a very
difficult decision for him.

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He'd always wanted
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and Stanford was the running
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That was also a big decision
that came down to the end

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when him and his mom finally
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where he went in the chapel,

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and in the chapel
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he was going to go to Stanford.

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[Ryan]  It was cool  to finally be a collegian and...

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what was really cool
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where like everyone was
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and training really hard.

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Nineteen year old Ryan was
extremely driven and focused

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in a way that most
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[Ryan]  During that freshmen  year in cross country, you know,

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my first two races
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and I think I just
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too fit and too gung ho.

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[Ian]
He was, he was very serious.

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Serious in good ways,
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that were going to be--
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going to be
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putting my teammates
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And I wasn't accustomed
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so during those first
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like, every single
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every single workout I was
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You know, a kid comes in,
especially a high, like,

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high school kid,
freshmen in college comes in,

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and he's working harder
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on the team are working,
or he wants to work harder.

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You know, not everybody
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Again, very successful
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Come back to camp
just killing guys,

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making people angry up at camp
because I was in good shape.

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He didn't have a team
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or junior high,
and so he didn't really know

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the whole work together
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In practice
it was like he was used

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to just like going all out,
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There was
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and I think that was
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Something else, you know,
I was just struggling

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with the lifestyle of college.

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Um, not only was
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but then my academics
were super hard

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and I was really
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I don't think we had
any idea really the extent

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to which he was struggling,
because he always had Sara.

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[Sara]
I was kind of his one person

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and I know he really struggled
with loneliness a lot,

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his first couple years, just
like when I couldn't be there

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and, and just being a part
of such a close family.

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But I definitely saw him grow
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and just learn to really foster
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and how to be
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One of the biggest
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is I started really prioritizing

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my time with God a lot more

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and I started going
down to the stadium.

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I'd sit down and just
hang out with God.

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I had a little journal and I,
you know, I'd read my  Bible

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and I'd just write down
things I felt like
God was telling me.

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Before that I was a, a runner
who happened to be a Christian,

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and then after
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I was a Christian
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which is a huge shift and, um...

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it really changed
the way I saw myself.

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Now I could get up in
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with what I saw in the mirror.

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I think as I matured
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to an understanding
of how Ryan works.

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The guy is just probably
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than anyone really.

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He can just go out and hammer.

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It was kind of like a...
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just sort of flipped.
In his last year of college,

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we got along great. We were, you
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I don't think there was
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we were really starting
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the same way
and work together well.

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[Mickey]  His time in college
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was an incredibly happy moment

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because he was having
one of those on days.

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[soft piano music]

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I would say the first
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were definitely a transition.

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We loved the Mammoth Track Club,

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that was a lot of great people.

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And Ian was still
there to train with Ryan

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just as they had
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For a while I was just,
"I'm getting dropped
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I was like,
"What's going on," you know?

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I kind of eventually had to just

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bite the bullet and say like,
"Man, he's progressed,

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um, in a way that I haven't."

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And he was doing some pretty
impressive tempo runs.

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[Ryan]  My success from
the marathon came in largely

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from just, you know,
being fresh and my body,

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really, I think was
super-compensated for
the extra work I was doing.

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[Ian] When he went and ran
that half marathon,

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which was really the...

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moment that I think everyone

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went like, "Whoa," like,

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you know, "He's not
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he's like really good at it."

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[gentle piano music]

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[reporter 1]  Ryan Hall 59:43,
at the Houston Half Marathon,

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shattering
the 60 minute barrier.

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[reporter 2]  This is going
to be an Olympic trials
record with ease.

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Ryan Hall, book it.

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You're on your way to Beijing.

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2:09:01, by more than a minute,

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he sets the Olympic trials  record at the marathon distance.

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[Ryan]  Before I began
my training for the games

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I was really excited  about my chances to get a medal.

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I really felt like I had
a great shot, you know,

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I had run really well
in New York off a slow pace

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in championship style race,

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and then, you know,
run a fast time in London

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and got a good look
at the best guys in the world.

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I think Ryan has just got
all the qualities necessaries.

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He's a very good
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He's a very good mover,
he's got great track times

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over 5,000 and 10,000 meters

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and you, you don't get those
unless you move pretty well.

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So the combination
combined with the talent
is what's made Ryan so good.

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[Ryan]  Terrence is a great  coach. I really feel like he did

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a great job of preparing me
for those marathons.

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[Tim]  As a combination,
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they produce some astonishing
performances for a period

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of, of, of three
or four or five years.

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[birds chirping]

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[Ryan] When I was on the
starting line of the Olympics,

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it was a funny sensation
because it is a moment

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that you have thought
about for a long time.

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You're like, "Wow,
I can't believe this is it."

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You know, "It's finally here."
It was an amazing start,

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you know,
right in Tiananmen Square.

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-[starters pistol fires]
-[Ryan] I could feel it

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right in the first 100 meters.

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It was like someone hit me
in the chin

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and I remember looking
at my split early on

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and thinking, "Man, I'm running
2:06 pace right now,"

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and I was so far back.

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It was a total shock,

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and I wasn't mentally
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That's not how you picture
your Olympic marathon happening.

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That really shifted when
I went into the Olympic Stadium.

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Going into the stadium
is the moment

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that I had always dreamed of.

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And God really got ahold
of me in that moment,

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and I felt
like what He told me was,

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you know, "This isn't
everything you have dreamed of,

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but this is everything
you need right now

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for this stage of your career."

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I really enjoyed my last lap
that I did around the stadium.

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You know, I finished the race
and then things, you know,

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started to set in right
when I finished.

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I think, "Man, I can't believe
that just happened like that."

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[commentator]  Samuel Wanjiru
just obliterated the field,

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winning the gold medal
for Kenya in the marathon,

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breaking the Olympic
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And at the closing ceremonies,
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the top three marathoners,
their medals,

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and, uh, that was such a crazy
thing to, to watch, you know,

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I was 50 feet away from Sammy
when he got his gold medal,

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and I remember just looking
at him and just thinking,

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"Man, in four years' time
I want that to be me."

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[upbeat triumphant music]

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Every day has the possibility,
so we'll see.

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[reporter]  Ryan Hall
continues to pile up

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impressive performances.

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And he's one of the only
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who can contend
the with East Africans.

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I've never stepped
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of a race,
I didn't think I could win.

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[upbeat triumphant music]

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[keyboard clicking]

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[announcer]  This evening
we are joined by a pair

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of record-setting athletes.

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Ryan Hall and Denise Robson.

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[man cheering]

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[Ryan] The running and the faith

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has always been
hand-in-hand for me.

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And I was feeling
more and more drawn to,

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you know, "How do
I live out my faith daily

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and how is this something
that's actually

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impacting my day-to-day life?"
There was some,

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some issues where
I was feeling like

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Terrence wasn't believing
in me in the same way

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as he had in the past.

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I remember having a conversation
with him on the phone.

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He was like,
"Maybe you just don't want it

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as much as you used to."

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I felt like
that really shattered

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how I perceived Terrence's
perception of me,

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which is really important,
you know, you have to have

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a coach that believes in you.
And I felt like,

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you know, he was starting
to maybe waver in that.

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Coming off Chicago I was just...
[sighs] totally fried,

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and I didn't know
what was going on.

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And I just want to be more
desperate to hear God's voice

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and I want to involve God more

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in what I'm doing
every single day.

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My body wasn't responding
well to training, you know.

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And I'd get halfway
into the workout

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and I just couldn't finish it.

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And it wasn't
like a motivational thing.

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I'd learned from amazing coaches

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all throughout my career,
and I felt like

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that prepared me to be ade--
adequately prepared

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for this season
of faith-based coaching.

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[reporter]
Ryan Hall to be coached by God

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is not a headline
that you'd read that often,

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and this will, no doubt,
get everybody

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in the running world talking.

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[Ryan] You know, I haven't
heard of anyone else doing
faith-based coaching.

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There's lots of people
who are coaching themself.

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It requires a risk to go out
and try something new,

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to pioneer new ground,
and a lot of runners

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aren't willing
to take that risk.

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Ryan has, has allegedly,
I understand,

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said that, you know,
God is his coach now.

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Well, I'm, I'm,
I'm not sure that's enough.

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I, I, I think God sometimes

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would like you to go
and get advice.

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Yeah, it didn't surprise me
all that much.

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Known Ryan long enough

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now to know that he's--

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you know, to not just write off

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his decisions as, as silly.

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I was pretty surprised and,
and definitely asked a lot

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of questions at first, just
about what it would look like.

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It was a big decision for him
to leave his coach. It,

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it's not something
that's natural to him

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to just bounce around
to different coaches.

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And I think Ryan,
all along really,

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took more ownership
of his training than,
than most of us did.

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And I remember sitting
in his family room in Mammoth

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at the house and he was just
like, "What do you think?"

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And I said, "You know what?

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I'm super proud and I think
you should do it.

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This is a big step."

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But I could see his,
his reasoning

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behind it
because I have a similar

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belief that like,

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do what it takes to...
[chuckles]

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...experience
God more in your life,

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that's the most important thing.

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I mean, I'm an atheist and he's,
you know,

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clearly a very devout Christian.

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As far as... him as,
as an athlete,

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I mean, I think I would
really envy that, really.
I mean, I think that, that,

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if I could flip a switch...
[fingers snap] you know,

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as an athlete
and really have that sort

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of faith that he has that,

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"This is really
what you should be doing and,"

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he draws on that as, um...

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as something that helps him
as an athlete.

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I sometimes think
maybe athletes and coaches,

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rather than splitting up,
should have a holiday.

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To actually end a relationship
that has proved so fruitful,

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to say, "Nope, I'm going
to do something different,"

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is big, big decision

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and, and, and so often athletes
get that decision wrong.

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Walking away from the standard
American way of coaching,

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um, was a huge, huge step.

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Because what it does
is it actually removes

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everything that we've been
taught for so many years

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about the modality of running,

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about what it means
to have a coach.

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It's hard to--
when you're doing really well,

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to, you know, change things.

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And I was also
uprooting my wife,

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who's also
a professional runner,

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and she was very supportive
throughout that.

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00:20:56,037 --> 00:20:58,387
And I think we headed off
to Flagstaff.

481
00:20:58,431 --> 00:21:01,216
I've learned a lot
from other coaches, um,

482
00:21:01,260 --> 00:21:04,263
but I'm not, I'm not a coach,
you know?

483
00:21:04,306 --> 00:21:06,743
But I, I live by the Spirit

484
00:21:06,787 --> 00:21:08,397
and I ask God
what to do every day,

485
00:21:08,441 --> 00:21:09,746
and He tells me what to do.

486
00:21:09,790 --> 00:21:12,053
I go out there, run,
and do my thing,

487
00:21:12,096 --> 00:21:14,534
focus on what I'm doing
and trying to please God,

488
00:21:14,577 --> 00:21:15,926
and that's all
that's important to me.

489
00:21:15,970 --> 00:21:17,276
I think that's
the part about Ryan

490
00:21:17,319 --> 00:21:18,973
that's the best, is that he is

491
00:21:19,016 --> 00:21:22,281
embracing his own identity
in who he is in Christ.

492
00:21:22,324 --> 00:21:24,021
[man]  There are a lot of
questions entering this year's

493
00:21:24,065 --> 00:21:26,023
Boston Marathon for Ryan Hall.

494
00:21:26,067 --> 00:21:29,157
Hall's first major race
since leaving Terrence Mahon

495
00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:32,116
and instead,
being coached by God.

496
00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:35,772
Boston was really
just a crazy run.

497
00:21:35,816 --> 00:21:37,731
It was a day that I'd been
praying for for years.

498
00:21:39,167 --> 00:21:40,211
[commentator]
Ryan Hall will finish

499
00:21:40,255 --> 00:21:41,996
with an astonishing performance.

500
00:21:42,039 --> 00:21:45,347
This will be an American
record by nearly a minute.

501
00:21:45,391 --> 00:21:47,393
He becomes
the first American ever

502
00:21:47,436 --> 00:21:49,090
to run under 2:05.

503
00:21:49,133 --> 00:21:50,526
[interviewer] There've been
some doubters there,

504
00:21:50,570 --> 00:21:52,354
you made the coaching change.

505
00:21:52,398 --> 00:21:54,748
How much does, does this
confirm what you have done?

506
00:21:55,792 --> 00:21:58,447
I mean it's just a... [laughs]
you know, like,

507
00:21:58,491 --> 00:21:59,927
this just blows me
away right now.

508
00:21:59,970 --> 00:22:01,537
I, I can't believe
what just happened.

509
00:22:01,581 --> 00:22:02,930
I feel like I'm just getting

510
00:22:02,973 --> 00:22:04,714
the ball rolling, you know?
And, uh,

511
00:22:04,758 --> 00:22:07,021
and to come out here
and run something like that

512
00:22:07,064 --> 00:22:09,371
was an incredible
confirmation of,

513
00:22:09,415 --> 00:22:11,330
you know,
being on the right track.

514
00:22:24,908 --> 00:22:27,171
[Ryan] I was telling Sara
what was really driving me

515
00:22:27,215 --> 00:22:28,869
is I was thinking about
walking into the opening

516
00:22:28,912 --> 00:22:30,523
ceremonies with her.
That's something

517
00:22:30,566 --> 00:22:32,046
I've dreamed about doing

518
00:22:32,089 --> 00:22:34,265
ever since, you know,
we started dating.

519
00:22:34,309 --> 00:22:36,616
And now that we're married,
to be able to do that together

520
00:22:36,659 --> 00:22:38,618
would make me cry, probably.
[laughs]

521
00:22:38,661 --> 00:22:41,664
[slow soft music]

522
00:22:45,451 --> 00:22:48,279
[Sara]
Well, the very first time we met

523
00:22:48,323 --> 00:22:52,066
was at the Footlocker
Western Regional Championships,

524
00:22:52,109 --> 00:22:54,329
our senior year of high school.

525
00:22:54,373 --> 00:22:55,809
So, we had a mutual friend,

526
00:22:55,852 --> 00:22:57,376
he introduced us after the race.

527
00:23:00,379 --> 00:23:02,511
The immediate thing that

528
00:23:02,555 --> 00:23:04,992
kind of I noticed,
the similarity was of our faith.

529
00:23:05,035 --> 00:23:08,430
He had actually signed
someone's race number

530
00:23:08,474 --> 00:23:10,345
and put a  Bible verse,
and I actually

531
00:23:10,389 --> 00:23:12,216
would always do the same
thing in high school.

532
00:23:12,260 --> 00:23:13,696
And I was like, "Oh,
that's kind of cool."

533
00:23:13,740 --> 00:23:16,220
I didn't know that
he was a believer also

534
00:23:16,264 --> 00:23:19,441
and didn't really know each
other until we got to Stanford.

535
00:23:19,485 --> 00:23:22,662
And then at pre-season camp
in Mammoth Lakes, California,

536
00:23:22,705 --> 00:23:24,490
we started to talk
a little bit more

537
00:23:24,533 --> 00:23:26,666
and then our first date
was the first week

538
00:23:26,709 --> 00:23:27,884
of freshmen year of college.

539
00:23:27,928 --> 00:23:30,800
And, just dated ever since.

540
00:23:30,844 --> 00:23:32,759
You could tell that he was
a very passionate person

541
00:23:32,802 --> 00:23:34,456
about all areas of his life,

542
00:23:34,500 --> 00:23:37,198
that he was extremely
focused on running,

543
00:23:37,241 --> 00:23:39,243
but also his faith was
extremely important to him,

544
00:23:39,287 --> 00:23:40,680
family is very important to him.

545
00:23:40,723 --> 00:23:43,596
His love for me
became a huge priority

546
00:23:43,639 --> 00:23:45,511
and he pursued me
like he did running

547
00:23:45,554 --> 00:23:47,208
and everything else.

548
00:23:47,251 --> 00:23:50,385
And so, that to me,
spoke a lot about his character.

549
00:23:50,429 --> 00:23:51,952
-[man] Go.
-[woman] Get out there!

550
00:23:51,995 --> 00:23:55,346
[Sara] Ryan's career has
inspired me incredibly,

551
00:23:55,390 --> 00:23:57,087
to continue running,

552
00:23:57,131 --> 00:23:59,481
and at times when maybe
I'd thought about retiring.

553
00:23:59,525 --> 00:24:02,179
Growing up, something
I wanted more than anything

554
00:24:02,223 --> 00:24:04,965
was a happy marriage
and just to really

555
00:24:05,008 --> 00:24:08,403
be married to someone that
I was in love with my whole life

556
00:24:08,447 --> 00:24:09,839
and that is was
this fun adventure,

557
00:24:09,883 --> 00:24:11,754
and God's just totally

558
00:24:11,798 --> 00:24:13,234
given me the desire of my heart,

559
00:24:13,277 --> 00:24:14,931
because that's
exactly what it's been.

560
00:24:14,975 --> 00:24:16,716
[crowd cheering]

561
00:24:16,759 --> 00:24:19,022
[Ryan] You know, Sara's
successes are my successes,

562
00:24:19,066 --> 00:24:21,155
and her failures
are my failures.

563
00:24:21,198 --> 00:24:23,766
And so, you know, I feel
like I'm out there running

564
00:24:23,810 --> 00:24:25,725
when she's out there, and
I feel like I'm kind of getting

565
00:24:25,768 --> 00:24:28,292
to live this other side
of the coin,

566
00:24:28,336 --> 00:24:32,122
um, this runner who's just
like a, a, a sit and kicker,

567
00:24:32,166 --> 00:24:35,082
but just like a ferocious,
tenacious runner

568
00:24:35,125 --> 00:24:38,651
that's taken part in these
incredibly exciting races.

569
00:24:38,694 --> 00:24:40,522
[announcer]  Let's give them  a nice round of applause, folks,

570
00:24:40,566 --> 00:24:43,438
the US Cross
Country Championships.

571
00:24:47,921 --> 00:24:51,620
[light playful music]

572
00:24:56,233 --> 00:24:57,931
[crowd cheering]

573
00:24:59,323 --> 00:25:01,282
[Ryan]  I'm just looking
at the next seven months,

574
00:25:01,325 --> 00:25:03,414
preparing for the Olympic games.  I, I really have

575
00:25:03,458 --> 00:25:05,634
a sense of destiny
about this race,

576
00:25:05,678 --> 00:25:08,637
it's going to be the, the best  Olympic marathon ever assembled.

577
00:25:08,681 --> 00:25:13,120
There's going to be multiple
2:03 marathon runners
in there.

578
00:25:13,163 --> 00:25:15,035
You know, for me to think
about getting a medal

579
00:25:15,078 --> 00:25:17,341
and two minutes slower
than a lot of these guys.

580
00:25:17,385 --> 00:25:19,256
And so I just know God's
going to have to show up,

581
00:25:19,300 --> 00:25:22,651
and it's going to be
a total run of faith.

582
00:25:22,695 --> 00:25:24,348
I really feel
like this is the race that

583
00:25:24,392 --> 00:25:25,872
God's been preparing me

584
00:25:25,915 --> 00:25:27,395
for and that I was made to run.

585
00:25:28,744 --> 00:25:30,267
[woman]
So come see me tomorrow, okay?

586
00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:34,358
[Ryan]  I was really feeling
like the second week
of my recovery

587
00:25:34,402 --> 00:25:36,099
that God was calling me
to do a fast.

588
00:25:36,143 --> 00:25:38,319
And I was feeling  like God was telling me to fast

589
00:25:38,362 --> 00:25:41,627
because I feel like this is
my way of positioning myself

590
00:25:41,670 --> 00:25:44,194
in a, a posture of humility
before Him and being like,

591
00:25:44,238 --> 00:25:45,892
"If Your grace isn't all over me

592
00:25:45,935 --> 00:25:47,676
during this season of my life,

593
00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:50,679
there's no way I cannot
get a medal without You."

594
00:25:55,641 --> 00:25:58,121
In the middle of the night
I was just lying in bed

595
00:25:58,165 --> 00:26:02,038
and I really felt like God
was... speaking to me

596
00:26:02,082 --> 00:26:04,606
about what this buildup
was going to look like,

597
00:26:04,650 --> 00:26:07,609
and He gave me this picture
of this golden puzzle
all coming together.

598
00:26:07,653 --> 00:26:10,394
And I really felt like
He was telling me everything

599
00:26:10,438 --> 00:26:12,919
that I've learned
throughout my life

600
00:26:12,962 --> 00:26:14,747
and throughout
my running career,

601
00:26:14,790 --> 00:26:16,400
the 14 years I've been running,

602
00:26:16,444 --> 00:26:18,794
all those lessons were
going to come together

603
00:26:18,838 --> 00:26:21,971
as this puzzle,
and it's all going to come
together for the Olympics.

604
00:26:22,015 --> 00:26:24,234
I felt like He was saying like,
"You're going to hit it."

605
00:26:24,278 --> 00:26:26,367
I really felt
like God was telling me

606
00:26:26,410 --> 00:26:29,588
right from the beginning of
the marathon I need to attack,

607
00:26:29,631 --> 00:26:30,763
and I need to be
on the offensive.

608
00:26:30,806 --> 00:26:32,895
I need to be the one

609
00:26:32,939 --> 00:26:35,115
going at Goliath, so to say.

610
00:26:35,158 --> 00:26:37,247
And He started to give me
specific strategy

611
00:26:37,291 --> 00:26:40,033
on needed to train at 4:40 pace.

612
00:26:40,076 --> 00:26:45,342
From day one, everything
started to click together.

613
00:26:45,386 --> 00:26:49,259
And it really kind of launched
me into my marathon training,

614
00:26:49,303 --> 00:26:52,480
with a new vision and motivation

615
00:26:52,523 --> 00:26:54,351
that I've never had before.

616
00:26:54,395 --> 00:26:56,832
[rain spattering]

617
00:27:01,271 --> 00:27:03,186
[Ryan]  The story of David
and Goliath has always been

618
00:27:03,230 --> 00:27:05,972
a super inspiring story for me.

619
00:27:06,015 --> 00:27:07,538
There was this huge
battle going on

620
00:27:07,582 --> 00:27:09,628
between Israel
and the Philistines.

621
00:27:09,671 --> 00:27:12,500
Goliath is this massive warrior,  nine feet tall,

622
00:27:12,543 --> 00:27:14,807
and he was going out and
taunting both the Israelites

623
00:27:14,850 --> 00:27:16,852
and their God for 40 days.

624
00:27:16,896 --> 00:27:19,812
No one was willing to go fight
Goliath, not even the king,

625
00:27:19,855 --> 00:27:22,075
until David arrived on the scene

626
00:27:22,118 --> 00:27:24,164
to actually give
his brother some food.

627
00:27:24,207 --> 00:27:26,645
And he sees Goliath come out
and taunt the armies.

628
00:27:26,688 --> 00:27:28,385
He's like,
"He's taunting my God."

629
00:27:28,429 --> 00:27:30,779
He's like,  "I'll go fight this Philistine."

630
00:27:32,433 --> 00:27:34,914
And he goes out to fight
Goliath with what he knows

631
00:27:34,957 --> 00:27:36,742
and what he's used
before when he went

632
00:27:36,785 --> 00:27:38,352
and fought the bear and the lion

633
00:27:38,395 --> 00:27:40,397
to keep his flock
safe in the past.

634
00:27:40,441 --> 00:27:42,269
He meets Goliath
on the battlefield,

635
00:27:42,312 --> 00:27:44,750
and first, Goliath taunts David.

636
00:27:44,793 --> 00:27:46,708
David is not intimidated at all

637
00:27:46,752 --> 00:27:50,190
and he's confident that God's  going to deliver the Philistine,

638
00:27:50,233 --> 00:27:51,844
Goliath, into his hands.

639
00:27:51,887 --> 00:27:54,760
David ran towards
Goliath with his sling

640
00:27:54,803 --> 00:27:56,544
and with his stones.

641
00:27:56,587 --> 00:27:59,025
One shot, hit Goliath
right in the forehead,

642
00:27:59,068 --> 00:28:00,243
Goliath went down.

643
00:28:00,287 --> 00:28:02,245
He used Goliath's own sword

644
00:28:02,289 --> 00:28:03,769
to cut off his own head.

645
00:28:03,812 --> 00:28:04,900
As soon as that happened,

646
00:28:04,944 --> 00:28:06,467
the Philistines all fled,

647
00:28:06,510 --> 00:28:07,903
and they lost the war.

648
00:28:08,991 --> 00:28:11,472
It's just an incredible
story of a kid

649
00:28:11,515 --> 00:28:14,562
who was super
confident in who God is

650
00:28:14,605 --> 00:28:18,087
and how powerful we are
because God is behind us.

651
00:28:18,131 --> 00:28:20,046
You know, it says in the Bible,
"If God is for us,

652
00:28:20,089 --> 00:28:21,743
who can stand against us?"

653
00:28:21,787 --> 00:28:23,266
When he got to that moment
and he arrived

654
00:28:23,310 --> 00:28:25,573
on that battlefield,
he knew that,

655
00:28:25,616 --> 00:28:27,444
"Hey,
God's prepared me for this."

656
00:28:28,315 --> 00:28:30,796
So, after 40 days of taunting

657
00:28:30,839 --> 00:28:34,016
and 40 days of defying
the living God of Israel,

658
00:28:34,060 --> 00:28:36,845
David finally came,
and on the 41st day,

659
00:28:36,889 --> 00:28:38,194
David fought Goliath.

660
00:28:38,238 --> 00:28:41,850
[ran spattering]

661
00:28:55,472 --> 00:28:57,344
-I'm still going to wear gloves.
-You want to wear gloves.

662
00:28:57,387 --> 00:28:58,258
Feel free.

663
00:29:01,304 --> 00:29:03,567
[interviewer]
How does all this feel to you?
Doing things like this?

664
00:29:03,611 --> 00:29:04,830
[Ryan] It's kind of surreal.
The first time

665
00:29:04,873 --> 00:29:06,440
I started doing
shoots like this,

666
00:29:06,483 --> 00:29:09,486
there was like 50 people
here just to shoot me,

667
00:29:09,530 --> 00:29:11,750
to take pictures of me.
I'm like,

668
00:29:11,793 --> 00:29:15,797
"Man, I feel kind of weird
being the center of all this."

669
00:29:15,841 --> 00:29:18,582
But, now it just feels like,
you know, part of the business

670
00:29:18,626 --> 00:29:21,672
and I just, I just really
enjoy it, it's fun.

671
00:29:21,716 --> 00:29:24,588
It's pretty cool.
Not very many people get
to experience this,

672
00:29:24,632 --> 00:29:28,810
and I just feel like it's a,
it's a super blessing and so,

673
00:29:28,854 --> 00:29:29,985
just enjoy it, you know.

674
00:29:30,943 --> 00:29:31,813
Take one.

675
00:29:33,728 --> 00:29:35,295
Knocking it out of the park.

676
00:29:35,338 --> 00:29:36,992
[director]  Action, Ryan.

677
00:29:37,036 --> 00:29:39,908
[light upbeat music]

678
00:29:39,952 --> 00:29:42,824
[engine rumbling]

679
00:29:47,524 --> 00:29:49,831
[people chattering]

680
00:29:51,441 --> 00:29:54,227
You keep very,
very fast and focused.

681
00:29:57,578 --> 00:29:58,492
[camera clicking]

682
00:30:01,103 --> 00:30:04,324
The longest 30 seconds
of my life. [laughs]

683
00:30:18,251 --> 00:30:20,644
[audience clapping]

684
00:30:20,688 --> 00:30:21,994
I wish you guys
all the best tomorrow,

685
00:30:22,037 --> 00:30:23,517
I hope you have
a good time out there.

686
00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:24,910
It's much easier to slow down

687
00:30:24,953 --> 00:30:26,912
than to speed up,
which is totally true.

688
00:30:26,955 --> 00:30:28,348
[audience laughing]

689
00:30:28,391 --> 00:30:30,045
[people chattering]

690
00:30:32,526 --> 00:30:33,701
Thank you so much.

691
00:30:37,009 --> 00:30:38,662
Getting it for the campers,
so just sign it.

692
00:30:39,794 --> 00:30:42,666
[light upbeat music]

693
00:30:48,629 --> 00:30:51,284
[razor buzzing]

694
00:30:51,327 --> 00:30:52,676
I want some lunch. [laughs]

695
00:30:55,288 --> 00:30:56,985
[camera clicks]

696
00:30:57,029 --> 00:30:58,987
Little more, little more.

697
00:30:59,031 --> 00:30:59,988
[camera clicks]

698
00:31:07,691 --> 00:31:10,346
[man] To the camara.
Throw it in the air.

699
00:31:10,390 --> 00:31:11,695
[whistle blows]

700
00:31:11,739 --> 00:31:12,827
[people chuckling]

701
00:31:15,612 --> 00:31:17,049
[indistinct]

702
00:31:17,092 --> 00:31:19,138
In my laptop, for two hours,

703
00:31:19,181 --> 00:31:21,792
I use between
500 and 1,000 watts of power.

704
00:31:21,836 --> 00:31:23,011
[woman instructing]

705
00:31:25,013 --> 00:31:27,363
So if you're looking at,
you know, doing a, a run

706
00:31:27,407 --> 00:31:28,887
at marathon specific speed.

707
00:31:31,585 --> 00:31:33,587
[footsteps thudding]

708
00:31:36,677 --> 00:31:38,287
Nice to meet you.

709
00:31:38,331 --> 00:31:41,551
[light upbeat music]

710
00:31:47,644 --> 00:31:49,472
[crowd cheering]

711
00:31:51,431 --> 00:31:53,128
This one's classic.

712
00:31:53,172 --> 00:31:54,608
Okay, here we go.

713
00:31:54,651 --> 00:31:55,914
Today's workout.

714
00:31:57,045 --> 00:31:59,134
Where we going? Up there.

715
00:32:08,796 --> 00:32:11,059
[people chattering]

716
00:32:17,457 --> 00:32:18,327
[man] Awesome.

717
00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:24,986
[traffic humming]

718
00:32:26,422 --> 00:32:28,729
[people chattering]

719
00:32:32,733 --> 00:32:33,777
[man 1] All right, man.

720
00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:36,737
[man 2] Right here. Over here.

721
00:32:38,347 --> 00:32:39,653
[man 3] That's right.

722
00:32:39,696 --> 00:32:41,176
[people chattering]

723
00:32:42,873 --> 00:32:45,964
This is going to be
an interesting day on Saturday.

724
00:32:46,007 --> 00:32:48,096
But, you know,
a great opportunity

725
00:32:48,140 --> 00:32:52,579
and it's fun to,
just to see where you're at.

726
00:32:52,622 --> 00:32:54,494
It's been four months
since the trials and,

727
00:32:54,537 --> 00:32:57,453
yeah, I'm stoked to, to get
back out there and race again.

728
00:32:57,497 --> 00:32:59,499
The point of this race is
preparing me for the games,

729
00:32:59,542 --> 00:33:02,458
and so I'm just going to,
I think, go out at 4:40 pace,

730
00:33:02,502 --> 00:33:04,678
have my watch on,
be checking it,

731
00:33:04,721 --> 00:33:06,288
and then try
and come home faster

732
00:33:06,332 --> 00:33:08,377
than 4:40 pace if I can.

733
00:33:08,421 --> 00:33:10,553
-[woman] So fun.
-Yeah, it's so nice out here.

734
00:33:10,597 --> 00:33:12,338
[woman] Everyone's been
so excited to have you.

735
00:33:14,557 --> 00:33:16,472
I'm good, ready to go.

736
00:33:16,516 --> 00:33:17,952
[announcer]  Now, ladies
and gentlemen, to bring up

737
00:33:17,996 --> 00:33:19,519
our final three
male competitors,

738
00:33:19,562 --> 00:33:21,173
please welcome
the president and CEO

739
00:33:21,216 --> 00:33:24,089
of New York Road Runners,
Mary Wittenberg.

740
00:33:24,132 --> 00:33:26,439
[Mary]  At New York Road Runners we love

741
00:33:26,482 --> 00:33:28,963
to give you the chance to run
with the world's best

742
00:33:29,007 --> 00:33:30,834
and to make a difference.

743
00:33:30,878 --> 00:33:32,662
Today we get to do all three.

744
00:33:32,706 --> 00:33:35,100
[crowd cheering]

745
00:33:35,143 --> 00:33:37,058
[announcer]  On your mark.

746
00:33:37,102 --> 00:33:38,059
[horn blows]

747
00:33:38,103 --> 00:33:40,583
[crowd cheering]

748
00:33:44,196 --> 00:33:46,502
[horn honking]

749
00:33:46,546 --> 00:33:47,982
[people chattering]

750
00:33:50,463 --> 00:33:52,073
- Yeah, yeah. In decent shape.

751
00:33:52,682 --> 00:33:54,684
- [woman] How's the foot?
- [man] I think it's okay.

752
00:33:58,471 --> 00:34:02,040
[woman] When did he start, I
mean, May, June, July...?

753
00:34:02,083 --> 00:34:03,389
[woman] Not even for a few more
weeks, do they?

754
00:34:03,432 --> 00:34:04,433
[man] He's running--

755
00:34:08,611 --> 00:34:10,265
[engine rumbling]

756
00:34:11,179 --> 00:34:13,051
[people chattering]

757
00:34:13,094 --> 00:34:14,791
[man] Pushing the pace.

758
00:34:14,835 --> 00:34:19,405
Um, with Dube and Rutto
right behind him.

759
00:34:22,016 --> 00:34:23,061
[man] David, are you there?

760
00:34:26,586 --> 00:34:29,589
-[David mumbles]  ...right
behind you.
-[reporter]  Right behind you.

761
00:34:37,118 --> 00:34:39,381
[man] Meucci looks
like has moved into third,

762
00:34:39,425 --> 00:34:41,905
just, just a half stride
ahead of the pack.

763
00:34:43,124 --> 00:34:45,039
[crowd cheering]

764
00:34:45,083 --> 00:34:47,041
[announcer]  There he is,  ladies and gentlemen, Ryan Hall

765
00:34:47,085 --> 00:34:49,217
approaching the finish line.

766
00:34:49,261 --> 00:34:52,177
What a team, USA going
to London later on this year.

767
00:34:53,178 --> 00:34:56,572
Bobby Curtis is going out
to take his victory lap.

768
00:34:59,184 --> 00:35:01,011
[Ryan]  Hard thing with,
with running is

769
00:35:01,055 --> 00:35:04,102
knowing what causes bad races.

770
00:35:04,145 --> 00:35:08,280
You know, I still don't totally  know why I raced so poorly.

771
00:35:08,323 --> 00:35:10,195
I really backed off for it and,

772
00:35:10,238 --> 00:35:12,414
you know, I'd been doing
lots of work at 4:40 pace,

773
00:35:12,458 --> 00:35:14,155
like I should've been
right in the mix. Like,

774
00:35:14,199 --> 00:35:16,070
any professional runner
should be able to run

775
00:35:16,114 --> 00:35:18,028
under 30 minutes...
[laughs]  for a 10k.

776
00:35:18,072 --> 00:35:19,943
Was it my nutrition?

777
00:35:19,987 --> 00:35:21,597
Is it my weight?

778
00:35:21,641 --> 00:35:23,904
Like the fact that
I've fasted for a week

779
00:35:23,947 --> 00:35:27,951
and came into this buildup
leaner than I typically do?

780
00:35:27,995 --> 00:35:30,954
I really felt like something
that God was highlighting

781
00:35:30,998 --> 00:35:33,827
to me in the last couple
of days is I just have

782
00:35:33,870 --> 00:35:36,046
too much slow running
in my program now.

783
00:35:39,224 --> 00:35:40,964
[announcer]  We'll get Ryan here in a minute.

784
00:35:43,271 --> 00:35:45,186
[people chattering]

785
00:35:46,970 --> 00:35:48,450
[announcer] We're just going
to take a quick comment

786
00:35:48,494 --> 00:35:51,279
from each of the three
US Olympians here

787
00:35:51,323 --> 00:35:55,065
about today's performance
and how this, you know,

788
00:35:55,109 --> 00:35:56,937
fits into
or looking ahead to London.

789
00:35:56,980 --> 00:35:59,418
My training's going
well and I'm healthy.

790
00:35:59,461 --> 00:36:01,507
And that's all I can
ask for right now.

791
00:36:01,550 --> 00:36:03,030
[Meb]
I'm very pleased with today,

792
00:36:03,073 --> 00:36:04,945
just because you got
to start somewhere.

793
00:36:04,988 --> 00:36:06,642
Obviously it wasn't
a great run for me today,

794
00:36:06,686 --> 00:36:08,688
but it's fun to be out here
with these guys, and, uh,

795
00:36:08,731 --> 00:36:10,907
and, you know, get to take
in New York on last time

796
00:36:10,951 --> 00:36:12,518
before heading to the games.

797
00:36:20,047 --> 00:36:21,570
[Ryan]  Just getting
whole legs back today.

798
00:36:21,614 --> 00:36:23,093
[Billy]  Yup.

799
00:36:23,137 --> 00:36:28,229
[Ryan] Not, not trying to...
set any records.

800
00:36:28,273 --> 00:36:30,362
[crickets chirping]

801
00:36:34,540 --> 00:36:37,107
[pop music playing on radio]

802
00:36:40,763 --> 00:36:41,677
Good job, Ryan.

803
00:36:43,853 --> 00:36:46,508
♪ All to you

804
00:36:49,816 --> 00:36:50,773
[man] Stop.

805
00:36:52,732 --> 00:36:53,689
Could be Ryan.

806
00:36:54,777 --> 00:36:55,735
Huh?

807
00:36:58,390 --> 00:37:01,567
[Ryan] Even though,
you know, the workout,
I couldn't finish it

808
00:37:01,610 --> 00:37:03,438
and it went really poorly,

809
00:37:03,482 --> 00:37:06,615
and I was running 5:45 pace
at the end, which I should be

810
00:37:06,659 --> 00:37:08,965
all around the five minute
pace pretty comfortably.

811
00:37:09,009 --> 00:37:12,534
I felt okay starting,
then just got,

812
00:37:12,578 --> 00:37:18,497
like, I don't know, man,
just like... no pop from there.

813
00:37:18,540 --> 00:37:21,239
But, I mean, I kind of
expected it for this workout.

814
00:37:22,631 --> 00:37:25,112
Wasn't expecting
to light the world on fire.

815
00:37:25,155 --> 00:37:27,636
[Billy] You just
tired from Saturday?

816
00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:29,290
Yeah, just all that travel.

817
00:37:29,334 --> 00:37:31,466
My body's just,
I don't know, man,

818
00:37:31,510 --> 00:37:33,860
it's not responding
the same way as it was.

819
00:37:33,903 --> 00:37:36,210
I think part of it is
emotional too you know?

820
00:37:36,254 --> 00:37:39,779
Like that race kind of beat me
up for a couple days,

821
00:37:39,822 --> 00:37:42,999
so you're kind of like
emotionally kind of beat up

822
00:37:43,043 --> 00:37:46,220
and that has physical
effects too, you know?

823
00:37:48,396 --> 00:37:52,182
Got to find joy despite
what's going on around me.

824
00:37:52,226 --> 00:37:54,184
And so, even if, you know,
my workouts

825
00:37:54,228 --> 00:37:56,230
continue to get worse and worse,
which,

826
00:37:56,274 --> 00:37:58,754
which I'm not anticipating
that happening, you know.

827
00:37:58,798 --> 00:38:00,408
Um, but if that's the case,

828
00:38:00,452 --> 00:38:03,324
"Can I find joy
and satisfaction?"

829
00:38:03,368 --> 00:38:05,239
And, "Is God really the gold?

830
00:38:05,283 --> 00:38:08,503
Is He really what I'm going
after more than anything else?"

831
00:38:08,547 --> 00:38:11,071
And that's kind
of what I'm confronted with

832
00:38:11,114 --> 00:38:12,333
after this last weekend.

833
00:38:12,377 --> 00:38:13,769
"Is He enough?"

834
00:38:20,385 --> 00:38:22,343
[Ryan]  Three months out
from the Olympics

835
00:38:22,387 --> 00:38:25,215
and I've kind of felt like
I needed just a fresh start.

836
00:38:25,259 --> 00:38:27,392
And like today
was like a fresh start.

837
00:38:32,310 --> 00:38:34,224
One of the big things is
wanting to go back to Redding

838
00:38:34,268 --> 00:38:35,835
and be around friends

839
00:38:35,878 --> 00:38:38,098
and people outside
of the running circle.

840
00:38:38,141 --> 00:38:40,013
That also helps me like...

841
00:38:41,057 --> 00:38:42,668
get away from it
for a little while,

842
00:38:42,711 --> 00:38:45,105
because it can seem
a little bit much at times.

843
00:38:45,148 --> 00:38:47,847
You know, I'll be like, "Ah,
man, when I'm not running,

844
00:38:47,890 --> 00:38:50,023
then I'm always
thinking about running."

845
00:38:50,980 --> 00:38:53,722
Eat your heart out,
all you vegans.

846
00:38:53,766 --> 00:38:55,507
[people laugh]

847
00:38:55,550 --> 00:38:57,770
[people chattering]

848
00:38:57,813 --> 00:38:59,075
[man] The natural.

849
00:39:01,295 --> 00:39:02,775
All you got to do
is spread your feet out,

850
00:39:02,818 --> 00:39:04,211
-bend your knees.
-[man] Yeah.

851
00:39:04,254 --> 00:39:05,604
That's all you got to do.

852
00:39:05,647 --> 00:39:07,562
You weren't properly instructed.

853
00:39:08,650 --> 00:39:11,087
[man 1] Woo! It's official.

854
00:39:11,131 --> 00:39:12,088
[man 2] Good.

855
00:39:14,569 --> 00:39:16,136
[Ryan]
Redding was always a place

856
00:39:16,179 --> 00:39:18,007
that Sara and I were
thinking about,

857
00:39:18,051 --> 00:39:19,661
kind of in the back of our mind,

858
00:39:19,705 --> 00:39:21,750
especially once we left
the Mammoth Track Club.

859
00:39:21,794 --> 00:39:24,536
Just because, you know,
we followed Bethel Church
so closely

860
00:39:24,579 --> 00:39:26,799
and we've gotten to know
people from the church.

861
00:39:26,842 --> 00:39:29,105
And so it's something
where we were like, "Oh, yeah,

862
00:39:29,149 --> 00:39:31,281
one day, you know, we're
going to live in Redding,"

863
00:39:31,325 --> 00:39:34,807
because we wanted to experience
God in his fullness.

864
00:39:34,850 --> 00:39:38,332
[parishioners singing]

865
00:39:40,682 --> 00:39:42,858
[Ryan] God's put so much
amazing stuff in us,

866
00:39:42,902 --> 00:39:44,991
but when
we're striving to get it out,

867
00:39:45,034 --> 00:39:46,471
and I do this
in my workouts all the time,

868
00:39:46,514 --> 00:39:48,037
I'm like, "Ah,
I got to make this happen,

869
00:39:48,081 --> 00:39:49,996
I got to make this happen
I'm trying so hard,"

870
00:39:50,039 --> 00:39:51,432
it doesn't come out.

871
00:39:51,476 --> 00:39:53,086
But when you just
let it come out,

872
00:39:53,129 --> 00:39:54,653
it's the same way
with our pursuit of God,

873
00:39:54,696 --> 00:39:57,525
when we just put ourselves
in God's lap,

874
00:39:57,569 --> 00:40:00,398
and He's always there, you know,
and we're able to just

875
00:40:00,441 --> 00:40:02,443
release what's
already inside of us.

876
00:40:02,487 --> 00:40:05,490
I mean, God has put such amazing
things in each one of us.

877
00:40:05,533 --> 00:40:07,317
I certainly feel
a lot closer to God now

878
00:40:07,361 --> 00:40:09,232
than I did, you know,
up in Mammoth.

879
00:40:09,276 --> 00:40:13,193
Something amazing happens
when you're desperate for God.

880
00:40:13,236 --> 00:40:15,282
Being desperate
for God definitely

881
00:40:15,325 --> 00:40:17,153
makes you closer to Him,
you know.

882
00:40:17,197 --> 00:40:19,939
But then what comes with that
is a little bit of tendency

883
00:40:19,982 --> 00:40:21,680
of, you know, using God.

884
00:40:21,723 --> 00:40:25,161
Like, I think sometimes I,
I want to take God

885
00:40:25,205 --> 00:40:27,207
and have Him
as my lucky rabbit's foot,

886
00:40:27,250 --> 00:40:30,689
but I, I don't want to put
God to the test anymore.

887
00:40:30,732 --> 00:40:33,561
I think people put God
to the test all the time.

888
00:40:33,605 --> 00:40:35,650
I know I have Him in my life,
you know.

889
00:40:35,694 --> 00:40:37,347
I'm like, "God, if You're real,"

890
00:40:37,391 --> 00:40:41,526
like, "Come, heal my foot
that's been bothering me

891
00:40:41,569 --> 00:40:44,746
for the last eight months."

892
00:40:44,790 --> 00:40:49,098
In my left foot, I can feel it
when I press on it here.

893
00:40:50,099 --> 00:40:52,667
It's just kind
of like all right here...

894
00:40:54,190 --> 00:40:57,106
We believe here at Bethel
that God wants to heal

895
00:40:57,150 --> 00:40:59,544
every disease
and every sickness.

896
00:40:59,587 --> 00:41:01,328
We look at, you know,
the life of Jesus

897
00:41:01,371 --> 00:41:04,113
and He said that He healed
everyone that came to Him.

898
00:41:04,157 --> 00:41:06,768
So, we believe God's heart
is always for healing and

899
00:41:06,812 --> 00:41:09,162
I came to the healing rooms,
they have them every Saturday,

900
00:41:09,205 --> 00:41:11,469
and is my first time
at the healing rooms.

901
00:41:11,512 --> 00:41:14,646
Leading up to the trials I was
really nervous about my foot,

902
00:41:14,689 --> 00:41:16,561
and it was really bothering me,
like,

903
00:41:16,604 --> 00:41:19,041
not only physically,
but also emotionally.

904
00:41:19,085 --> 00:41:21,130
Mainly just by pressing on it.

905
00:41:21,174 --> 00:41:23,524
-[men and women] Okay.
-Because that like
puts like pressure on it

906
00:41:23,568 --> 00:41:24,960
right there when running.

907
00:41:26,048 --> 00:41:27,093
[woman laughs]

908
00:41:28,790 --> 00:41:31,227
Jesus, we just invite
your presence to come

909
00:41:31,271 --> 00:41:34,492
and to fill,
to fill Ryan's body.

910
00:41:35,710 --> 00:41:39,453
Thank You for this gift
and this ability to move on.

911
00:41:39,497 --> 00:41:42,543
We prayed for a guy last week
who had broken his foot.

912
00:41:42,587 --> 00:41:45,067
[Ryan]
I think a lot of people agree
that there's a lot of power

913
00:41:45,111 --> 00:41:47,156
that comes with
just physical touch

914
00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:49,594
in general and, and the power
of love, and that's,

915
00:41:49,637 --> 00:41:51,421
that's what's going on
in the healing rooms.

916
00:41:51,465 --> 00:41:53,380
And it's been cool
to see all the miracles

917
00:41:53,423 --> 00:41:54,990
that have been
happening right here.

918
00:41:55,034 --> 00:41:56,557
On cancer being healed,

919
00:41:56,601 --> 00:41:58,907
legs growing out,
deaf ears opened.

920
00:41:58,951 --> 00:42:00,996
Like, all kinds of crazy stuff.

921
00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:02,868
It's been about six months

922
00:42:02,911 --> 00:42:05,610
and my plantar fasciitis
has been bothering me.

923
00:42:05,653 --> 00:42:08,047
And I've tried everything on it.

924
00:42:08,090 --> 00:42:10,266
Everything from injections

925
00:42:10,310 --> 00:42:13,269
of naturopathic stuff
to get the inflammation down,

926
00:42:13,313 --> 00:42:16,708
shockwave therapy,
endless icing.

927
00:42:18,231 --> 00:42:20,233
Ah, yeah, no, it feels better.

928
00:42:20,276 --> 00:42:22,235
-Really?
-Yay. [claps]

929
00:42:22,278 --> 00:42:24,019
It would be like
a two or something.

930
00:42:24,063 --> 00:42:25,673
-Really?
-It's dialing down.

931
00:42:25,717 --> 00:42:27,501
That's awesome. Yeah.

932
00:42:27,545 --> 00:42:29,459
I wouldn't say
it's completely better,

933
00:42:29,503 --> 00:42:31,157
but definitely feels
a little better.

934
00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:33,507
And I think healing comes
in a lot of different ways.

935
00:42:33,551 --> 00:42:35,683
You know, there's the obviously,
the physical healing,

936
00:42:35,727 --> 00:42:37,293
but then also just
like an emotional

937
00:42:37,337 --> 00:42:38,947
and spiritual healing as well.

938
00:42:38,991 --> 00:42:41,950
Sometimes the healing, you know,
isn't instantaneous,

939
00:42:41,994 --> 00:42:43,561
sometimes it takes time.

940
00:42:43,604 --> 00:42:46,041
Um, so I'm going to keep
believing God for healing

941
00:42:46,085 --> 00:42:47,652
and keep going after it.

942
00:42:53,483 --> 00:42:57,270
[announcer]  We are very lucky
to have two Olympians

943
00:42:57,313 --> 00:43:00,186
who are possibly going to be
running in the half marathon,

944
00:43:00,229 --> 00:43:03,015
and then winning,
becoming the oldest American

945
00:43:03,058 --> 00:43:06,409
to win the Olympic
marathon trials in Houston.

946
00:43:06,453 --> 00:43:09,369
Please, give it up for the great  Meb Keflezighi.

947
00:43:09,412 --> 00:43:11,501
[audience clapping]

948
00:43:11,545 --> 00:43:12,894
[drums rolling]

949
00:43:15,680 --> 00:43:18,596
[announcer]
First American to break an hour
for the half marathon,

950
00:43:18,639 --> 00:43:21,990
going 59:43.

951
00:43:22,034 --> 00:43:25,428
He's a 2008 and 2012
Olympic marathon qualifier

952
00:43:25,472 --> 00:43:30,259
and Boston in 2011,
he ran 2:04:58,

953
00:43:30,303 --> 00:43:32,392
the fastest time
ever for an American.

954
00:43:32,435 --> 00:43:35,482
Please, welcome the great
Mr. Ryan Hall.

955
00:43:35,525 --> 00:43:37,049
[audience clapping]

956
00:43:37,092 --> 00:43:39,617
[drum rolling]

957
00:43:39,660 --> 00:43:41,270
[Ryan] Now I think
going into San Diego,

958
00:43:41,314 --> 00:43:44,317
I need to just have
a positive experience there.

959
00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:47,146
I need to just find that line,
you know?

960
00:43:47,189 --> 00:43:50,845
Like how hard can I go
without going over the line?

961
00:43:50,889 --> 00:43:54,980
And find a nice kind
of rhythm with my body.

962
00:43:55,023 --> 00:43:56,677
A good intuitive race I think

963
00:43:56,721 --> 00:43:58,723
is the big goal in San Diego.

964
00:43:58,766 --> 00:44:00,376
You know, if I can get down
to 4:50 pace,

965
00:44:00,420 --> 00:44:01,726
that'd be really good.

966
00:44:01,769 --> 00:44:04,380
It's exactly
where I'd need to be, um,

967
00:44:04,424 --> 00:44:06,992
at this point
in my buildup for the Olympics.

968
00:44:07,035 --> 00:44:09,864
I think a lot of the nerves
that I-- that sometimes I feel

969
00:44:09,908 --> 00:44:11,561
before some of these
shorter races just

970
00:44:11,605 --> 00:44:13,999
feeling like, you know, this
isn't right up my alley.

971
00:44:14,042 --> 00:44:17,176
I'm learning to embrace
that more, you know,

972
00:44:17,219 --> 00:44:21,223
realizing that if you're going
to be very specifically good

973
00:44:21,267 --> 00:44:23,835
at one thing, it's going
to be very, very difficult

974
00:44:23,878 --> 00:44:25,140
to be good at a bunch of things.

975
00:44:25,184 --> 00:44:27,621
And so if I have to trade

976
00:44:27,665 --> 00:44:30,015
a half marathon or a 10k,

977
00:44:30,058 --> 00:44:31,799
it's part
of the growing experience.

978
00:44:31,843 --> 00:44:35,411
[slow soft music]

979
00:44:38,023 --> 00:44:40,068
[Ryan]  So the morning of  the race, you know, warming up,

980
00:44:40,112 --> 00:44:41,983
and my legs felt really good,
actually.

981
00:44:42,027 --> 00:44:44,856
Um, I felt like I had some,  some zip in there and some pop,

982
00:44:44,899 --> 00:44:47,249
and so I was really
excited for the race.

983
00:45:02,917 --> 00:45:06,921
[Ryan] The problem is
I kind of got influenced

984
00:45:06,965 --> 00:45:09,271
to go out a little bit
harder than I should've.

985
00:45:09,315 --> 00:45:11,273
They wanted Meb and I
to run together,

986
00:45:11,317 --> 00:45:13,319
and so they could get
some pictures of us

987
00:45:13,362 --> 00:45:15,190
running together,
which is all cool.

988
00:45:15,234 --> 00:45:17,802
He went out at like 4:40
and so I just went with him,

989
00:45:17,845 --> 00:45:20,108
you know, and I was feeling
pretty good, feeling
pretty comfortable.

990
00:45:20,152 --> 00:45:22,632
And so I was like, "Well,
I'll just, just go with Meb."

991
00:45:22,676 --> 00:45:24,156
But then after the first mile,

992
00:45:24,199 --> 00:45:26,201
I started feeling
like I was breathing pretty hard

993
00:45:26,245 --> 00:45:29,117
and working pretty hard,
so I let him go after that.

994
00:45:29,161 --> 00:45:31,772
[slow soft music]

995
00:45:33,078 --> 00:45:35,776
I came to 10k like 30 seconds
faster than I raced it

996
00:45:35,820 --> 00:45:38,910
at Healthy Kidney, so I was
like, "Well, that's a good sign.

997
00:45:38,953 --> 00:45:41,608
I'm definitely heading
in the right direction."

998
00:45:41,651 --> 00:45:44,437
And then, you know, I was
running on my own and then

999
00:45:44,480 --> 00:45:47,527
the wheels started
to come off around like
seven or eight miles.

1000
00:45:47,570 --> 00:45:49,877
And that's kind of when
the frustration started

1001
00:45:49,921 --> 00:45:51,792
to creep in
with my foot and stuff,

1002
00:45:51,836 --> 00:45:53,881
because, you know,
my foot was sore,

1003
00:45:53,925 --> 00:45:56,144
but my foot, it's,
it's sore every day I run.

1004
00:45:56,188 --> 00:45:58,059
So it really wasn't anything new

1005
00:45:58,103 --> 00:46:01,584
or out of the ordinary,
but I need to practice

1006
00:46:01,628 --> 00:46:03,935
and practice not
thinking about it.

1007
00:46:03,978 --> 00:46:06,372
But it, it is difficult
because I feel like

1008
00:46:06,415 --> 00:46:09,070
it is kind of like altering
my stride a little bit.

1009
00:46:09,114 --> 00:46:12,378
[slow soft music]

1010
00:46:14,467 --> 00:46:17,862
That was good but,
it's not track,

1011
00:46:17,905 --> 00:46:19,602
like my stride's not right now.

1012
00:46:20,473 --> 00:46:22,301
My foot is jacked.

1013
00:46:23,345 --> 00:46:24,216
But...

1014
00:46:26,435 --> 00:46:28,394
what can you do, man?

1015
00:46:28,437 --> 00:46:32,137
You know,
I wasn't really bummed because

1016
00:46:32,180 --> 00:46:35,488
I was kind of just,
I think tired of being bummed.

1017
00:46:35,531 --> 00:46:37,664
It was like I just wanted
to try and come here

1018
00:46:37,707 --> 00:46:40,841
and run 61 minutes
or something good, you know?

1019
00:46:40,885 --> 00:46:42,582
So, but then as things
progressed,

1020
00:46:42,625 --> 00:46:46,325
my body just hasn't quite
come around like I was hoping.

1021
00:46:46,368 --> 00:46:49,371
I'm still battling
this plantar fasciitis, it's,

1022
00:46:49,415 --> 00:46:53,071
it's really lingering
and giving me some problems,

1023
00:46:53,114 --> 00:46:55,203
so I need to get rid of that.

1024
00:46:55,247 --> 00:46:57,989
The hard thing is, you know,
you finish a race

1025
00:46:58,032 --> 00:46:59,642
and it didn't go
how you expected

1026
00:46:59,686 --> 00:47:01,383
and you're falling apart,

1027
00:47:01,427 --> 00:47:03,472
you just need some time
to process things.

1028
00:47:03,516 --> 00:47:05,474
You know, like it always
takes me just like getting

1029
00:47:05,518 --> 00:47:08,303
away for a day or so
and just processing the race.

1030
00:47:13,787 --> 00:47:16,268
I did kind
of need some motivation

1031
00:47:16,311 --> 00:47:17,791
at this point in my training,

1032
00:47:17,835 --> 00:47:20,185
because I trained hard
for a long time

1033
00:47:20,228 --> 00:47:22,752
and been on a bit
of a up and down

1034
00:47:22,796 --> 00:47:24,624
rollercoaster ride,
and it's been tough.

1035
00:47:24,667 --> 00:47:27,018
Kind of struggling a little
bit with just like motivation.

1036
00:47:30,804 --> 00:47:32,588
[Ryan]  I'm so stoked to have,
you know,

1037
00:47:32,632 --> 00:47:34,286
Chad join Sara and my family.

1038
00:47:34,329 --> 00:47:37,724
[soft piano music]

1039
00:47:44,731 --> 00:47:46,907
[Chad] Ryan was the middle
child and Craig my--

1040
00:47:46,951 --> 00:47:49,910
was my next oldest brother,
and then me.

1041
00:47:49,954 --> 00:47:51,216
[Ryan]  You know,
Chad has trained with me

1042
00:47:51,259 --> 00:47:52,826
throughout the summers before,

1043
00:47:52,870 --> 00:47:54,001
and we always just
have such a great

1044
00:47:54,045 --> 00:47:55,481
time training together.

1045
00:47:55,524 --> 00:47:57,918
I think that's been
one of the things

1046
00:47:57,962 --> 00:48:00,442
that like has drawn
Ryan and I closer together

1047
00:48:00,486 --> 00:48:02,749
is the fact
that we've had success,

1048
00:48:02,792 --> 00:48:06,187
and like we both want to do
great things with our running.

1049
00:48:06,231 --> 00:48:09,974
So, he was a huge mentor
for me throughout college.

1050
00:48:10,017 --> 00:48:13,281
He kind of tried to help me
get through those tough times.

1051
00:48:13,325 --> 00:48:16,197
[Ryan]  Chad is the guy
that I want to see him

1052
00:48:16,241 --> 00:48:18,721
go way faster
than I've ever gone.

1053
00:48:18,765 --> 00:48:20,288
[Chad]  It means a lot
to me having a brother

1054
00:48:20,332 --> 00:48:22,073
that's that supportive.

1055
00:48:22,116 --> 00:48:24,466
[Ryan] You know,
one of my proudest moments

1056
00:48:24,510 --> 00:48:27,165
of my career, or life,

1057
00:48:27,208 --> 00:48:28,818
or whatever you want to say,
was watching him

1058
00:48:28,862 --> 00:48:30,603
win the Footlocker
National Championships

1059
00:48:30,646 --> 00:48:32,648
when he was in high school.

1060
00:48:32,692 --> 00:48:36,174
I think his potential
is better than what I've done.

1061
00:48:36,217 --> 00:48:38,828
It's just a matter
of time until he hits it right.

1062
00:48:38,872 --> 00:48:40,700
[Chad]  It worried me a little bit when

1063
00:48:40,743 --> 00:48:43,050
his races weren't going as well
as he thought they would.

1064
00:48:43,094 --> 00:48:45,444
And then obviously there was
some disappointing workouts

1065
00:48:45,487 --> 00:48:47,576
when I first got up there.

1066
00:48:47,620 --> 00:48:50,362
I just have a lot different
perspective I'd say now

1067
00:48:50,405 --> 00:48:53,278
than I had, say three
months ago or six months ago.

1068
00:48:53,321 --> 00:48:55,802
I realize that, you know,
for the time being,

1069
00:48:55,845 --> 00:48:58,065
I need to just get
away from the watch.

1070
00:48:58,109 --> 00:49:00,589
[Chad] You're not timing
yourself, right?

1071
00:49:00,633 --> 00:49:03,375
I just need time for recovery.

1072
00:49:03,418 --> 00:49:05,899
So who knows? We might run
75 or we might run 60.

1073
00:49:05,943 --> 00:49:07,553
[Chad laughs] All right.

1074
00:49:07,596 --> 00:49:09,903
-Let's not do 60.
-[Billy laughs]

1075
00:49:09,947 --> 00:49:11,949
[Ryan] Stop putting
myself in holes in workouts,

1076
00:49:11,992 --> 00:49:14,168
stop getting discouraged
if I see a split

1077
00:49:14,212 --> 00:49:15,909
that's slower
than I want to see,

1078
00:49:15,953 --> 00:49:19,043
and just open up my mind
too to what can happen

1079
00:49:19,086 --> 00:49:21,567
if I'm not married to my watch.

1080
00:49:21,610 --> 00:49:22,829
[man] That's it.

1081
00:49:25,614 --> 00:49:27,225
[heavily breathing]

1082
00:49:28,748 --> 00:49:30,706
Nice job, guys. [claps]

1083
00:49:36,625 --> 00:49:37,757
Nice work, nice work.

1084
00:49:42,283 --> 00:49:44,416
[men panting]

1085
00:49:46,896 --> 00:49:48,463
Good workout today.

1086
00:49:48,507 --> 00:49:50,248
Yeah, they are getting
better and better.

1087
00:49:50,291 --> 00:49:51,771
Slow.

1088
00:49:51,814 --> 00:49:52,990
It's a progression.

1089
00:49:53,033 --> 00:49:54,904
[birds chirping]

1090
00:49:56,123 --> 00:49:58,691
I should've been doing
this stuff back in February.

1091
00:49:59,561 --> 00:50:01,650
It's been a crazy buildup.

1092
00:50:01,694 --> 00:50:03,739
With the information I have now,

1093
00:50:03,783 --> 00:50:06,177
I would certainly have
done things differently

1094
00:50:06,220 --> 00:50:07,961
for this buildup.

1095
00:50:08,005 --> 00:50:10,529
But with-- considering
the information I had then,

1096
00:50:10,572 --> 00:50:11,878
I don't have any regrets.

1097
00:50:13,097 --> 00:50:15,273
When you run
or when you put your body

1098
00:50:15,316 --> 00:50:16,665
through this kind of stress

1099
00:50:16,709 --> 00:50:19,842
for this long
of a period of time,

1100
00:50:19,886 --> 00:50:23,716
you're sitting right here,
and essentially, by definition,

1101
00:50:23,759 --> 00:50:26,414
that line between when
you're actually now injured

1102
00:50:26,458 --> 00:50:28,068
is right here.
Because you want to be

1103
00:50:28,112 --> 00:50:29,983
putting in as much
as you possibly can

1104
00:50:30,027 --> 00:50:31,376
and your body will tolerate it.

1105
00:50:31,419 --> 00:50:34,466
Our role has been
putting him back together

1106
00:50:34,509 --> 00:50:37,599
after some of these crazy races,

1107
00:50:37,643 --> 00:50:39,993
and just trying
to anticipate anything

1108
00:50:40,037 --> 00:50:42,082
that we could see coming up.

1109
00:50:42,126 --> 00:50:44,519
[Chad]
But it's hard, too.
You know, you want to see

1110
00:50:44,563 --> 00:50:46,173
nice, smooth buildups,

1111
00:50:46,217 --> 00:50:48,088
especially if you're
thinking about doing

1112
00:50:48,132 --> 00:50:50,612
something amazing like
you think you-- like he was.

1113
00:50:50,656 --> 00:50:53,224
The excitement is still there,
it just kind of like,

1114
00:50:53,267 --> 00:50:54,573
I'm just kind of thinking
to myself, "Man,

1115
00:50:54,616 --> 00:50:56,357
anything is possible here."

1116
00:50:57,532 --> 00:51:02,450
My foot has just taken...
an incredible turn for the good.

1117
00:51:02,494 --> 00:51:04,713
I haven't been
feeling it hardly at all.

1118
00:51:04,757 --> 00:51:07,586
[Chad] I kind of had faith
that he would come around.

1119
00:51:07,629 --> 00:51:09,544
He was even telling me from
time to time that he's never

1120
00:51:09,588 --> 00:51:12,112
had a buildup
that was totally smooth.

1121
00:51:12,156 --> 00:51:13,766
[Ryan]  You know,
I'm out there running now,

1122
00:51:13,809 --> 00:51:16,073
I'm thinking
I've run 2:04 for marathon,

1123
00:51:16,116 --> 00:51:18,205
I am a great marathon runner.

1124
00:51:18,249 --> 00:51:22,209
[soft dramatic music]

1125
00:51:23,428 --> 00:51:24,559
[Billy] That's it.

1126
00:51:43,317 --> 00:51:45,972
[Ryan] It's good, man,
we were rolling.

1127
00:51:46,015 --> 00:51:49,236
[soft dramatic music]

1128
00:51:56,200 --> 00:51:57,766
[Ryan and Chad
breathing heavily]

1129
00:52:02,945 --> 00:52:04,295
That's the stuff right there.

1130
00:52:13,391 --> 00:52:15,567
Good one.
Last 75 minutes end well.

1131
00:52:15,610 --> 00:52:18,178
[tires crunching]

1132
00:52:25,925 --> 00:52:29,102
Last one won't go over two hours
until, until the games.

1133
00:52:42,115 --> 00:52:43,856
[birds chirping]

1134
00:52:43,899 --> 00:52:46,902
[soft dramatic music]

1135
00:52:55,172 --> 00:52:58,740
My Olympic uniform,
Olympic gear.

1136
00:52:59,611 --> 00:53:00,612
It's pretty sweet.

1137
00:53:01,917 --> 00:53:05,182
What you dream about
when you're a little kid.

1138
00:53:05,225 --> 00:53:08,315
"Congrats on your selection,
2012 Olympic team."

1139
00:53:09,534 --> 00:53:10,491
Yes.

1140
00:53:11,579 --> 00:53:13,538
[people laughing]

1141
00:53:13,581 --> 00:53:15,583
[bags rustling]

1142
00:53:18,586 --> 00:53:21,110
There's the,
the jersey I'll be donning.

1143
00:53:22,199 --> 00:53:23,983
[gear rustling]

1144
00:53:28,857 --> 00:53:31,077
[Ryan] It's kind of crazy,
I think it's finally starting
to hit me,

1145
00:53:31,120 --> 00:53:33,253
now that I'm leaving tomorrow,
on the way to London

1146
00:53:33,297 --> 00:53:35,342
and seeing some of the track
races on TV,

1147
00:53:35,386 --> 00:53:37,388
it's starting to hit me
a little bit more even.

1148
00:53:40,347 --> 00:53:43,263
When Sara didn't make the team,
it was really like... [sighs]

1149
00:53:43,307 --> 00:53:44,569
...a strange emotional
rollercoaster

1150
00:53:44,612 --> 00:53:46,135
for me to go through.

1151
00:53:46,179 --> 00:53:48,094
You know, I was obviously
like super disappointed,

1152
00:53:48,137 --> 00:53:51,489
and just how I viewed
the games totally changed.

1153
00:53:51,532 --> 00:53:55,057
Because I just pictured us
doing everything together,

1154
00:53:55,101 --> 00:53:56,755
the opening ceremonies,
all that stuff.

1155
00:53:56,798 --> 00:53:59,410
When that wasn't
going to happen anymore,

1156
00:53:59,453 --> 00:54:02,978
it did totally kind of light
a fire in my belly a little bit.

1157
00:54:03,022 --> 00:54:05,285
I was running for me
and a lot of different reasons,

1158
00:54:05,329 --> 00:54:07,461
but now I was running
for both of us.

1159
00:54:10,595 --> 00:54:12,031
Beijing, when I finished tenth,

1160
00:54:12,074 --> 00:54:13,380
I was certainly
a little bit disappointed

1161
00:54:13,424 --> 00:54:15,208
with that at the time,
but the funny is

1162
00:54:15,252 --> 00:54:17,732
as I've gotten older
and as I've looked back

1163
00:54:17,776 --> 00:54:20,300
on that experience, I've really
grown to appreciate that.

1164
00:54:20,344 --> 00:54:22,476
And as I've kind of embraced
that experience,

1165
00:54:22,520 --> 00:54:25,566
I think it's allowed me
to come into this Olympics

1166
00:54:25,610 --> 00:54:27,525
with a very positive mindset.

1167
00:54:29,048 --> 00:54:31,659
Last workout
before the marathon today.

1168
00:54:31,703 --> 00:54:35,794
Just doing a ten minute, just
kind of like easy tempo run.

1169
00:54:35,837 --> 00:54:37,535
Slower than marathon pace.

1170
00:54:37,578 --> 00:54:40,277
And then some
like pretty chill 400s.

1171
00:54:43,454 --> 00:54:45,804
I'd say this definitely
is the biggest race of my life.

1172
00:54:45,847 --> 00:54:47,849
It doesn't get much
better than this for me.

1173
00:54:47,893 --> 00:54:50,287
You know, my preparations
haven't gone perfectly,

1174
00:54:50,330 --> 00:54:53,159
but, you know, I'm 29 years old,

1175
00:54:53,202 --> 00:54:55,379
it's right at the prime
of my career,

1176
00:54:55,422 --> 00:54:58,207
it's the Olympic games, in
a place that I've raced before,

1177
00:54:58,251 --> 00:55:00,471
that I'm familiar with,
that I've run well at.

1178
00:55:00,514 --> 00:55:03,865
And the conditions are
going to be good for running.

1179
00:55:03,909 --> 00:55:06,215
You know,
I want to run a beautiful race.

1180
00:55:06,259 --> 00:55:08,566
A race that is totally me

1181
00:55:08,609 --> 00:55:10,524
and is just me
being myself out there,

1182
00:55:10,568 --> 00:55:13,005
taking risks,
really going for it.

1183
00:55:13,048 --> 00:55:14,572
But what enables me to do that

1184
00:55:14,615 --> 00:55:17,096
is just being completely free,
knowing that

1185
00:55:17,139 --> 00:55:19,794
when I stand before God
at the end of my life, like,

1186
00:55:19,838 --> 00:55:22,362
He's going to look back
at marathon day,

1187
00:55:22,406 --> 00:55:24,146
the Olympic marathon in London,

1188
00:55:24,190 --> 00:55:26,105
He's going to be like,
"Man, I was so proud of you."

1189
00:55:26,148 --> 00:55:29,108
But He's like, "I don't care
if you finish last or first,

1190
00:55:29,151 --> 00:55:31,110
I'm just proud
of you because you're my son."

1191
00:55:34,679 --> 00:55:36,898
[slow somber music]

1192
00:55:48,432 --> 00:55:50,129
[Ryan]  Waking up the morning
of Olympic marathon,

1193
00:55:50,172 --> 00:55:51,304
it was surreal.

1194
00:55:53,437 --> 00:55:56,265
Usually I'm just very
relaxed going into it,

1195
00:55:56,309 --> 00:55:58,355
and I felt a little bit
more nervous than I'd been

1196
00:55:58,398 --> 00:56:00,052
for any other marathon.

1197
00:56:01,009 --> 00:56:04,056
[slow somber music]

1198
00:56:08,147 --> 00:56:10,105
I remember walking to the train  station, just being like

1199
00:56:10,149 --> 00:56:11,803
taking deep breaths,
just being, "Wow,

1200
00:56:11,846 --> 00:56:13,413
here we go," you know,
"It's starting."

1201
00:56:27,340 --> 00:56:29,647
[Ryan]
I felt ready, you know?
Just ready to go battle,

1202
00:56:29,690 --> 00:56:33,259
ready to go to war out there,
and ready to run my heart out.

1203
00:56:34,608 --> 00:56:37,829
[people chattering]

1204
00:56:37,872 --> 00:56:39,439
[starter pistol fires]

1205
00:56:39,483 --> 00:56:41,223
[Ryan]  Right off
the bat the race started,

1206
00:56:41,267 --> 00:56:43,487
and I wanted
to get to the front.

1207
00:56:43,530 --> 00:56:45,967
It just felt
like really uncomfortable,

1208
00:56:46,011 --> 00:56:47,578
like really early on.

1209
00:56:47,621 --> 00:56:49,406
So, you know,  I wasn't freaking out about it.

1210
00:56:49,449 --> 00:56:51,103
You know,  I could see Meb up in the front

1211
00:56:51,146 --> 00:56:53,018
and Abdi was
kind of next to him.

1212
00:56:53,061 --> 00:56:54,672
If those guys up in the front,
would be like, "Okay,

1213
00:56:54,715 --> 00:56:56,456
those are the medal
spots right there.

1214
00:56:56,500 --> 00:56:58,632
My goal is to get in that spot."

1215
00:56:58,676 --> 00:57:02,462
It was not until
about 5k the hamstring

1216
00:57:02,506 --> 00:57:05,422
just continued to,
to cinch up on me.

1217
00:57:05,465 --> 00:57:08,076
I was just trying to enjoy
the race as much as I could,

1218
00:57:08,120 --> 00:57:10,601
trying to take my mind off
the hamstring.

1219
00:57:10,644 --> 00:57:12,472
I was thinking
about having qualified,

1220
00:57:12,516 --> 00:57:14,300
and I was thinking about all
the guys back at home

1221
00:57:14,343 --> 00:57:16,737
watching me run,
and how they would just kill

1222
00:57:16,781 --> 00:57:18,609
to be out there running
the Olympic marathon.

1223
00:57:18,652 --> 00:57:21,133
That thought crossed  my mind a whole bunch of times,

1224
00:57:21,176 --> 00:57:23,352
you know, where I just
wanted to be like, "No,

1225
00:57:23,396 --> 00:57:26,878
I've never dropped out,
I'm finishing this race."

1226
00:57:27,966 --> 00:57:30,316
It was like a mile away
from finishing the loop

1227
00:57:30,359 --> 00:57:33,885
where I started
asking God questions.

1228
00:57:33,928 --> 00:57:36,278
I was like, "What's
the wise thing to do here?

1229
00:57:36,322 --> 00:57:40,108
I know that You brought me
here to run this marathon

1230
00:57:40,152 --> 00:57:42,284
and I don't understand
why this is happening

1231
00:57:42,328 --> 00:57:44,461
and why my hamstring's
so tight right now."

1232
00:57:45,592 --> 00:57:47,289
And it became apparent that

1233
00:57:47,333 --> 00:57:49,814
things were just going
to get worse for me.

1234
00:57:49,857 --> 00:57:52,033
After finishing one loop
and just pulled off

1235
00:57:52,077 --> 00:57:54,383
to the right hand side of
the road and started walking.

1236
00:57:54,427 --> 00:57:56,560
[announcer]  But that withdraw
is a significant one,

1237
00:57:56,603 --> 00:57:57,778
just going back to it.

1238
00:57:57,822 --> 00:58:00,433
That was Ryan Hall of the USA.

1239
00:58:00,477 --> 00:58:03,044
He is certainly one of  the finest long distance runners

1240
00:58:03,088 --> 00:58:04,959
in the world, and it's very sad,

1241
00:58:05,003 --> 00:58:07,571
after all the preparation
he has done for this race.

1242
00:58:07,614 --> 00:58:09,573
[Ryan]  This was the first race
where I've DNFd in my life,

1243
00:58:09,616 --> 00:58:11,618
so it's, you know,
that is a real bummer.

1244
00:58:11,662 --> 00:58:13,446
[laughs]  Oh, man.

1245
00:58:13,490 --> 00:58:15,448
I'm kind of,
kind of in shock right now,

1246
00:58:15,492 --> 00:58:16,971
hasn't really hit me
what just happened.

1247
00:58:17,015 --> 00:58:19,539
So, it's one
of those things where

1248
00:58:19,583 --> 00:58:21,672
it's going to,  it's going to take some time to,

1249
00:58:21,715 --> 00:58:23,804
to get, get through,

1250
00:58:23,848 --> 00:58:27,721
but today just... wasn't,

1251
00:58:27,765 --> 00:58:28,983
wasn't in the cards.

1252
00:58:36,643 --> 00:58:39,254
The biggest breakthrough
that happened for me in London

1253
00:58:39,298 --> 00:58:43,563
was what happened after
the race, you know, like.

1254
00:58:43,607 --> 00:58:46,827
Usually I would've
just been so devastated,

1255
00:58:46,871 --> 00:58:48,960
and it would've been
like life was over,

1256
00:58:49,003 --> 00:58:50,918
and I would have had
a serious meltdown.

1257
00:58:50,962 --> 00:58:55,401
And... it would've triggered
something very bad in me.

1258
00:58:55,444 --> 00:58:59,231
But then, at the end of the day,
realized God is still good

1259
00:58:59,274 --> 00:59:02,364
and He still loves me
and I still love Him,

1260
00:59:02,408 --> 00:59:04,845
and I still love life,
and life is still good,

1261
00:59:04,889 --> 00:59:06,412
and life is still worth living,

1262
00:59:06,455 --> 00:59:08,719
and there are
other races to be run.

1263
00:59:27,955 --> 00:59:29,391
[birds chirping]

1264
00:59:30,349 --> 00:59:33,787
[slow dramatic music]

1265
00:59:36,616 --> 00:59:39,706
[Ryan]  The marathon was
definitely my worst experience

1266
00:59:39,750 --> 00:59:41,621
ever in a race.

1267
00:59:41,665 --> 00:59:44,537
Everything was on the line
for the Olympic marathon.

1268
00:59:44,581 --> 00:59:48,759
I felt like that was the moment  that I was created for.

1269
00:59:48,802 --> 00:59:50,456
There's always that point
in the race where

1270
00:59:50,499 --> 00:59:52,371
it's just super painful
and it hurts,

1271
00:59:52,414 --> 00:59:54,721
and it feels like you have
a long ways to go,

1272
00:59:54,765 --> 00:59:56,549
and there's no way
you're going to make it.

1273
00:59:56,593 --> 00:59:59,030
But this was different.
It was inhibiting me from

1274
00:59:59,073 --> 01:00:00,858
having my natural stride.
I was starting to feel

1275
01:00:00,901 --> 01:00:02,773
like I was limping a little bit,

1276
01:00:02,816 --> 01:00:05,645
and the real problems
I was having was with my hip,

1277
01:00:05,689 --> 01:00:07,778
and it was kind of related
to the hamstring.

1278
01:00:07,821 --> 01:00:11,042
I think as a professional runner  and as a marathon runner,

1279
01:00:11,085 --> 01:00:13,218
you just learn to ignore pain.

1280
01:00:13,261 --> 01:00:15,481
[Sara] I think 22 year old Ryan,

1281
01:00:15,524 --> 01:00:18,266
I think he was just happy to be
living his dream, you know?

1282
01:00:18,310 --> 01:00:21,922
Like the now Ryan, I have,
I kind of have to remind him,

1283
01:00:21,966 --> 01:00:24,316
when you have come as far
as you have, like 2:04

1284
01:00:24,359 --> 01:00:27,449
and under 60 minutes
for half and all of that,

1285
01:00:27,493 --> 01:00:29,974
it's sometimes hard
to keep in perspective

1286
01:00:30,017 --> 01:00:33,499
that that can't always
happen every time out.

1287
01:00:33,542 --> 01:00:35,675
[Ryan] Through it all I've
just felt this sense of hope.

1288
01:00:35,719 --> 01:00:37,198
I know what's inside of me

1289
01:00:37,242 --> 01:00:39,070
and I've seen it come out
before at Houston,

1290
01:00:39,113 --> 01:00:41,463
I've seen it come out when
I ran 2:04 at Boston.

1291
01:00:41,507 --> 01:00:43,161
I know it's still there.

1292
01:00:43,204 --> 01:00:44,641
But right after the games

1293
01:00:44,684 --> 01:00:46,860
I was just super
frustrated with it,

1294
01:00:46,904 --> 01:00:48,775
and I was not sure if,
if I wanted

1295
01:00:48,819 --> 01:00:50,951
to keep doing the whole
faith-based coaching,

1296
01:00:50,995 --> 01:00:53,693
or if I want to just get
a traditional coach.

1297
01:00:54,781 --> 01:00:56,348
I'm just realizing
more and more that

1298
01:00:56,391 --> 01:00:58,263
God is not the god
of performance,

1299
01:00:58,306 --> 01:01:01,396
and, uh... He,
He loves to watch me run,

1300
01:01:01,440 --> 01:01:04,008
but I don't have to win
to make Him happy.

1301
01:01:04,051 --> 01:01:05,705
You could probably count
the number of athletes

1302
01:01:05,749 --> 01:01:08,708
who have made it to world-class,

1303
01:01:08,752 --> 01:01:11,972
or, and/or stayed at world-class
without a coach

1304
01:01:12,016 --> 01:01:13,321
on the fingers of one hand.

1305
01:01:13,365 --> 01:01:15,106
There is so much
knowledge out there,

1306
01:01:15,149 --> 01:01:17,848
so many good people with good
knowledge and good will

1307
01:01:17,891 --> 01:01:21,634
that, uh, I don't think you can
actually get too much counsel.

1308
01:01:21,678 --> 01:01:23,244
And I would say
my initial reaction

1309
01:01:23,288 --> 01:01:24,985
is just like throw in the towel
and just be like,

1310
01:01:25,029 --> 01:01:26,900
"Oh, this faith-based
coaching thing doesn't work."

1311
01:01:26,944 --> 01:01:29,729
But I really feel
like it does work,

1312
01:01:29,773 --> 01:01:32,253
and like God does want to be
involved in the process.

1313
01:01:33,820 --> 01:01:35,996
I'd rather go down
in flames with God

1314
01:01:36,040 --> 01:01:37,868
than do this thing without Him

1315
01:01:37,911 --> 01:01:40,174
and have it go really well.

1316
01:01:43,308 --> 01:01:44,178
[man] Any better?

1317
01:01:45,092 --> 01:01:46,180
Or hurts the same?

1318
01:01:55,015 --> 01:01:56,103
[laughs]

1319
01:01:56,147 --> 01:01:58,018
[birds chirping]

1320
01:01:59,324 --> 01:02:01,108
[Ryan] Came down with a bit
of a hip flexor thing

1321
01:02:01,152 --> 01:02:02,806
before leaving for Kenya.

1322
01:02:02,849 --> 01:02:07,462
And that was three weeks ago,
and is still bugging me.

1323
01:02:07,506 --> 01:02:09,247
Yeah, so I've seen
John every couple days,

1324
01:02:09,290 --> 01:02:11,162
and he just thought
I should be able to run.

1325
01:02:11,205 --> 01:02:13,425
He's like, "You'll be able
to run when you get to Kenya."

1326
01:02:13,468 --> 01:02:14,905
He emailed me back yesterday,

1327
01:02:14,948 --> 01:02:16,994
and he's like, "Yeah, if
you're still not running

1328
01:02:17,037 --> 01:02:19,257
after three weeks," he's like,
"You need to get an MRI."

1329
01:02:20,301 --> 01:02:23,087
This is the fourth big
injury that I've had,

1330
01:02:23,130 --> 01:02:27,047
and I'd never had a big injury
in my entire running career.

1331
01:02:27,091 --> 01:02:28,919
And now, in the last two years,

1332
01:02:28,962 --> 01:02:30,529
I've had four big injuries.

1333
01:02:32,226 --> 01:02:33,880
I'm just taking it
one day at a time.

1334
01:02:38,624 --> 01:02:40,452
[machine whirring]

1335
01:02:40,495 --> 01:02:42,454
[machine beeping]

1336
01:02:44,630 --> 01:02:46,240
[doctor]
So there is some inflammation,

1337
01:02:46,284 --> 01:02:48,460
some fluid accumulation
in the bursa,

1338
01:02:48,503 --> 01:02:50,636
we find there's a bursitis.

1339
01:02:50,679 --> 01:02:52,856
[birds cawing]

1340
01:02:52,899 --> 01:02:55,119
[people chattering]

1341
01:02:56,468 --> 01:02:57,817
[doctor] Is that painful?

1342
01:02:57,861 --> 01:02:59,253
-Mm-mm.
-[doctor] Not at all?

1343
01:02:59,297 --> 01:03:00,515
-Mm-mm.
-[doctor] That's completely

1344
01:03:00,559 --> 01:03:02,082
-comfortable for you?
-Yeah.

1345
01:03:02,126 --> 01:03:04,171
-[doctor] Now?
-Yeah, it's still fine.

1346
01:03:04,215 --> 01:03:05,999
[doctor] That's fine.
Okay, then yeah,

1347
01:03:06,043 --> 01:03:07,827
it might be the bursa.

1348
01:03:07,871 --> 01:03:09,350
Come, it's okay.

1349
01:03:09,394 --> 01:03:11,004
What you have to do is, uh...

1350
01:03:12,310 --> 01:03:14,486
we'll have to put you
on some medication.

1351
01:03:14,529 --> 01:03:16,009
Okay? Um--

1352
01:03:16,053 --> 01:03:17,663
[Ryan] Just like a--
what kind of?

1353
01:03:17,706 --> 01:03:19,578
I think anti-inflammatory.
But an oral steroid.

1354
01:03:19,621 --> 01:03:21,536
A short course, we taper it off

1355
01:03:21,580 --> 01:03:24,278
in about ten days' time, okay?

1356
01:03:24,322 --> 01:03:27,151
In the meanwhile,
you cannot do any hip flexion.

1357
01:03:28,326 --> 01:03:30,110
Okay?
Anything that flexes the hip,

1358
01:03:30,154 --> 01:03:32,069
-the iliopsoas is
the one that's doing it.
-[Ryan] Yeah.

1359
01:03:32,112 --> 01:03:34,506
Okay? Especially internal
rotation also.

1360
01:03:34,549 --> 01:03:35,724
-[Ryan] Yeah.
-Okay?

1361
01:03:35,768 --> 01:03:36,595
-Okay.
-If you should rest,

1362
01:03:36,638 --> 01:03:37,726
it should go away.

1363
01:03:37,770 --> 01:03:38,858
Should not trouble you at all.

1364
01:03:38,902 --> 01:03:39,859
[Ryan] Great. That's good news.

1365
01:03:39,903 --> 01:03:41,730
Okay? Right.

1366
01:03:41,774 --> 01:03:43,080
I am to give you prednisolone.

1367
01:03:43,123 --> 01:03:44,995
Okay? But this time oral, okay?

1368
01:03:45,038 --> 01:03:46,953
-[Ryan] Okay.
-[doctor] Ten milligram.

1369
01:03:46,997 --> 01:03:49,651
Three times a day for five days.
And then you reduce the dose.

1370
01:03:49,695 --> 01:03:51,828
[Ryan] I think I've just been
learning the importance

1371
01:03:51,871 --> 01:03:55,657
of not having everything
riding on running.

1372
01:03:55,701 --> 01:03:58,791
Like, you go through big
injuries and it happens once,

1373
01:03:58,835 --> 01:04:00,619
and you kind
of rally through it.

1374
01:04:00,662 --> 01:04:03,665
It's like every time
it's happened...

1375
01:04:03,709 --> 01:04:06,146
it's not like it's getting
easier to handle the injury

1376
01:04:06,190 --> 01:04:07,844
because I've been there before,

1377
01:04:07,887 --> 01:04:10,237
it's almost like it's
getting harder and harder,

1378
01:04:10,281 --> 01:04:13,719
because every time it feels
like... I'm getting further

1379
01:04:13,762 --> 01:04:16,200
and further away
from where I've been

1380
01:04:16,243 --> 01:04:17,854
and also where I want to go.

1381
01:04:22,206 --> 01:04:24,686
[chanting in foreign language]

1382
01:04:34,783 --> 01:04:37,569
[Ryan] So, I met Wesley
at Prefontaine Classic

1383
01:04:37,612 --> 01:04:40,441
and Wesley had just
won the LA Marathon.

1384
01:04:40,485 --> 01:04:41,703
He was all excited to meet me

1385
01:04:41,747 --> 01:04:43,401
because he'd always

1386
01:04:43,444 --> 01:04:45,055
looked up to me for my faith.

1387
01:04:45,098 --> 01:04:48,319
We chatted and,
and been friends ever since.

1388
01:04:48,362 --> 01:04:52,453
Wesley approached us about
the hospital a couple years back

1389
01:04:52,497 --> 01:04:54,020
and he told us his story,

1390
01:04:54,064 --> 01:04:55,587
which just kind
of captured our heart.

1391
01:04:55,630 --> 01:04:57,894
Well, his little brother
got bit by a snake.

1392
01:04:57,937 --> 01:05:00,287
If his little brother
had been somewhere close

1393
01:05:00,331 --> 01:05:03,464
to a medical facility
that had antivenom,

1394
01:05:03,508 --> 01:05:05,162
his little brother
would've been fine but

1395
01:05:05,205 --> 01:05:07,425
they didn't have a hospital
or medical clinic

1396
01:05:07,468 --> 01:05:09,601
anywhere
close to their hometown,

1397
01:05:09,644 --> 01:05:11,472
so his little brother
ended up dying.

1398
01:05:11,516 --> 01:05:13,997
And so Wesley wanted
to build a hospital

1399
01:05:14,040 --> 01:05:15,955
in honor of his brother,
and to make sure

1400
01:05:15,999 --> 01:05:18,436
that that never happened
again to any other kids

1401
01:05:18,479 --> 01:05:20,960
in his hometown and--
So he decided to build

1402
01:05:21,004 --> 01:05:22,744
the health,
health clinic and hospital,

1403
01:05:22,788 --> 01:05:24,572
and when he told us how much
it was going to cost,

1404
01:05:24,616 --> 01:05:26,487
I remember
we were just blown away

1405
01:05:26,531 --> 01:05:28,750
at how cheap it was
to build a hospital.

1406
01:05:28,794 --> 01:05:31,971
We ended up fundraising
about $26,000 for it,

1407
01:05:32,015 --> 01:05:34,539
and that pretty much built
the entire hospital,

1408
01:05:34,582 --> 01:05:36,845
and that was through
The Steps Foundation.

1409
01:05:36,889 --> 01:05:39,065
[chanting in foreign language]

1410
01:05:39,109 --> 01:05:41,850
[Ryan] He has so much
going on and he's in such

1411
01:05:41,894 --> 01:05:43,809
close community

1412
01:05:43,852 --> 01:05:45,115
with the people around him.

1413
01:05:45,158 --> 01:05:46,768
And he's so busy
throughout the day.

1414
01:05:46,812 --> 01:05:48,248
And there's something almost

1415
01:05:48,292 --> 01:05:49,989
that draws you in about that,

1416
01:05:50,033 --> 01:05:52,949
because it's nice to have
something else in your life

1417
01:05:52,992 --> 01:05:55,342
besides just running,
just hanging out.

1418
01:05:55,386 --> 01:05:56,953
And I think Wesley has that.

1419
01:06:00,086 --> 01:06:03,350
[slow soft music]

1420
01:06:18,452 --> 01:06:21,238
[traffic humming]

1421
01:06:21,281 --> 01:06:23,327
[people chattering]

1422
01:06:30,290 --> 01:06:31,509
[birds chirping]

1423
01:06:39,082 --> 01:06:40,692
[Ryan]
So, right now we're in Ethiopia,

1424
01:06:40,735 --> 01:06:44,130
about 10k away from Addis Ababa,

1425
01:06:44,174 --> 01:06:46,741
which Sara had actually been
here prior to our trip

1426
01:06:46,785 --> 01:06:48,700
to Kenya this last fall,

1427
01:06:48,743 --> 01:06:51,050
and she just fell in love
with Yaya Village,

1428
01:06:51,094 --> 01:06:52,660
with the culture in Ethiopia,

1429
01:06:52,704 --> 01:06:54,967
with everything
about this place.

1430
01:06:55,011 --> 01:06:57,361
And we're at 9,000 feet so,

1431
01:06:57,404 --> 01:06:58,884
the training is hard,
it's intense.

1432
01:06:58,927 --> 01:07:00,625
[birds chirping]

1433
01:07:00,668 --> 01:07:03,845
I was just hoping
to check out Ethiopia

1434
01:07:03,889 --> 01:07:05,543
and see what the training
was like here,

1435
01:07:05,586 --> 01:07:08,241
observe how other guys
run and train here,

1436
01:07:08,285 --> 01:07:10,504
and then also take in
the culture.

1437
01:07:10,548 --> 01:07:12,854
Sara and I, we got to visit
a couple orphanages

1438
01:07:12,898 --> 01:07:15,118
while we were here,
a couple different programs,

1439
01:07:15,161 --> 01:07:19,209
and see like if there's
something for us here
in the future.

1440
01:07:19,252 --> 01:07:22,125
I think just traveling
and seeing the world

1441
01:07:22,168 --> 01:07:25,563
and seeing how maybe God
can use us in the future,

1442
01:07:25,606 --> 01:07:28,261
and you never know what contacts
you're going to make, build,

1443
01:07:28,305 --> 01:07:30,002
and how you're going
to get inspired.

1444
01:07:31,786 --> 01:07:34,224
It's been fun to interact
with some of the other runners

1445
01:07:34,267 --> 01:07:35,921
who are staying here,
and it has a little bit

1446
01:07:35,964 --> 01:07:37,662
of a training camp feel.

1447
01:07:38,750 --> 01:07:41,361
I was feeling like
for this buildup for Boston,

1448
01:07:41,405 --> 01:07:43,407
I needed to just
kind of get lost

1449
01:07:43,450 --> 01:07:45,800
and I needed to just
lay low and be quiet

1450
01:07:45,844 --> 01:07:48,629
and put my head down
and just train super hard.

1451
01:07:48,673 --> 01:07:50,240
I feel the peace
of God when I'm here,

1452
01:07:50,283 --> 01:07:52,416
and I think that's one
of the biggest things

1453
01:07:52,459 --> 01:07:55,245
that has really helped me
to really click here.

1454
01:07:56,289 --> 01:07:58,204
We're probably like ten
or 11,000 feet right now,

1455
01:07:58,248 --> 01:07:59,901
but it's just
the most beautiful run

1456
01:07:59,945 --> 01:08:01,251
I think I've ever
done in my life.

1457
01:08:01,294 --> 01:08:03,557
It's just epic views
the whole way,

1458
01:08:03,601 --> 01:08:07,387
just the scenery here,
it's so peaceful, that was,

1459
01:08:07,431 --> 01:08:09,650
it was amazing. I wish
I could do this run every day.

1460
01:08:11,174 --> 01:08:14,829
Running makes you so crazy,
emotionally.

1461
01:08:14,873 --> 01:08:16,962
You know, when I was going
through that tough time in Kenya

1462
01:08:17,005 --> 01:08:20,052
and, and after Kenya, too,
going through little episodes

1463
01:08:20,096 --> 01:08:23,142
of like depression,
and even when I was coming back

1464
01:08:23,186 --> 01:08:24,839
and I was able to run
those half hour runs,

1465
01:08:24,883 --> 01:08:26,928
I would still feel my hip.

1466
01:08:26,972 --> 01:08:30,236
And I remember almost
after every single run,

1467
01:08:30,280 --> 01:08:32,586
the thought would go through my
head like, "I think I'm done."

1468
01:08:32,630 --> 01:08:34,284
I wasn't convinced that

1469
01:08:34,327 --> 01:08:36,764
I was ever going to get back
into the same shape.

1470
01:08:36,808 --> 01:08:39,985
I think when you're constantly
having disappointments

1471
01:08:40,028 --> 01:08:42,118
and injuries all in a row,
then you're,

1472
01:08:42,161 --> 01:08:44,946
as a coping mechanism,
you don't want to hope again,

1473
01:08:44,990 --> 01:08:47,601
you know, you, because you
have been hurt so many times.

1474
01:08:47,645 --> 01:08:50,561
And, and that's kind of been the
last year and a half for him.

1475
01:08:50,604 --> 01:08:54,173
I think now he's finally
letting himself dream again,

1476
01:08:54,217 --> 01:08:57,611
you know, and not feel like you
have to be protecting yourself.

1477
01:08:57,655 --> 01:09:00,701
[Ryan] And I think this has
really been the theme of my life

1478
01:09:00,745 --> 01:09:02,877
and the theme of my story is

1479
01:09:02,921 --> 01:09:04,966
you just got to keep
getting up in the morning,

1480
01:09:05,010 --> 01:09:06,751
you just got to keep
going out there and trying

1481
01:09:06,794 --> 01:09:08,535
and putting yourself out there.

1482
01:09:08,579 --> 01:09:11,059
If there's anything I've
done in my life, that's it.

1483
01:09:11,103 --> 01:09:12,931
It's like you
either get up or stay down

1484
01:09:12,974 --> 01:09:15,194
and staying down sucks.

1485
01:09:15,238 --> 01:09:16,848
[laughs]
So, I might as well get back up.

1486
01:09:16,891 --> 01:09:19,111
I have an insane
amount of talent.

1487
01:09:19,155 --> 01:09:20,634
I think God's given me
a talent to run,

1488
01:09:20,678 --> 01:09:24,638
but I think more than anything,
um...

1489
01:09:24,682 --> 01:09:26,771
He's just put
a resilient spirit in me.

1490
01:09:26,814 --> 01:09:29,121
It's amazing how things
can turn around.

1491
01:09:29,165 --> 01:09:31,428
[birds chirping]

1492
01:09:32,994 --> 01:09:36,128
[slow soft music]

1493
01:09:38,130 --> 01:09:39,479
[Ryan] God was telling me
as I was praying

1494
01:09:39,523 --> 01:09:41,438
about how to train
for this marathon,

1495
01:09:41,481 --> 01:09:43,483
I felt like He was telling me
I needed to go there

1496
01:09:43,527 --> 01:09:47,095
a million times. And what
I interpreted that to mean is

1497
01:09:47,139 --> 01:09:49,968
I needed to experience
the pain of a marathon,

1498
01:09:50,011 --> 01:09:52,231
over and over again.
I needed to put myself

1499
01:09:52,275 --> 01:09:54,059
in the same situation
I'm going to find

1500
01:09:54,102 --> 01:09:57,541
in Boston, in the marathon,
at mile 20 when I'm hurting.

1501
01:09:57,584 --> 01:09:59,543
A lot of it's just feeling

1502
01:09:59,586 --> 01:10:01,849
like I'm being obedient
to what God's called me to do,

1503
01:10:01,893 --> 01:10:04,896
so then I have the confidence
when I'm out there
that this is good for me.

1504
01:10:04,939 --> 01:10:07,986
And even if it hurts like crazy,
even if it's not fun,

1505
01:10:08,029 --> 01:10:10,380
it's what's going to get me
ready for the race.

1506
01:10:10,423 --> 01:10:13,731
And having that
confidence in my coach

1507
01:10:13,774 --> 01:10:15,298
makes all the difference
in the world.

1508
01:10:18,126 --> 01:10:21,173
So this past Sunday
I did two hours tempo,

1509
01:10:21,217 --> 01:10:23,219
and, you know, I was really
nervous going into it.

1510
01:10:23,262 --> 01:10:25,656
I've done two hours hard
before in this buildup,

1511
01:10:25,699 --> 01:10:28,354
and every time it's,
it's super grueling.

1512
01:10:28,398 --> 01:10:30,791
But I want to get it out
of the way in practice

1513
01:10:30,835 --> 01:10:33,011
so that way when
I get into the marathon

1514
01:10:33,054 --> 01:10:35,056
and I am on totally fresh legs,

1515
01:10:35,100 --> 01:10:36,754
and I'm in race mode
and I'm fired up,

1516
01:10:36,797 --> 01:10:39,452
it won't be the first time
I've experienced that.

1517
01:10:41,889 --> 01:10:44,544
The whole 40 days of testing

1518
01:10:44,588 --> 01:10:46,329
and the 41st day being the day

1519
01:10:46,372 --> 01:10:51,334
where you emerge from that
testing victorious and stronger,

1520
01:10:52,291 --> 01:10:54,467
it resonates now more than ever.

1521
01:10:54,511 --> 01:10:56,730
I mean, it's been
a lot longer than 40 days

1522
01:10:56,774 --> 01:10:58,645
and sometimes
our season of testing

1523
01:10:58,689 --> 01:11:00,473
lasts years and years and years.

1524
01:11:00,517 --> 01:11:03,041
I feel like I've been
through that furnace now,

1525
01:11:03,084 --> 01:11:04,564
and I am coming out
to other side,

1526
01:11:04,608 --> 01:11:06,871
and I will be refined as gold.

1527
01:11:06,914 --> 01:11:09,656
I still don't believe
I've reached my full potential

1528
01:11:09,700 --> 01:11:12,137
in the marathon,
but I know that if I hadn't gone

1529
01:11:12,180 --> 01:11:14,618
through these 40 days of testing

1530
01:11:14,661 --> 01:11:17,316
that I wouldn't
reach the potential

1531
01:11:17,360 --> 01:11:19,187
that I'm going to one day
achieve and get to.

1532
01:11:19,231 --> 01:11:22,843
[soft piano music]

1533
01:11:25,803 --> 01:11:27,587
[Ryan] When I was out there
running, honestly,

1534
01:11:27,631 --> 01:11:29,285
I'm just taking
one mile at a time.

1535
01:11:29,328 --> 01:11:31,722
I started out and I was
running the first mile,

1536
01:11:31,765 --> 01:11:34,115
and I remember thinking
to myself, I was like,

1537
01:11:34,159 --> 01:11:37,597
"It feels like it could be
in the 5:40 range."

1538
01:11:37,641 --> 01:11:39,730
So, when I looked down
and I saw my first split

1539
01:11:39,773 --> 01:11:42,210
and I think it was around 5:10
or something like that,

1540
01:11:42,254 --> 01:11:44,125
I was really surprised
and I was like, "Wow,

1541
01:11:44,169 --> 01:11:47,172
this, this is a very, very,
very good sign."

1542
01:11:49,348 --> 01:11:53,047
I was able to average 5:18 pace
at, you know, 6,200 feet,

1543
01:11:53,091 --> 01:11:55,963
running all by myself
for two hours hard.

1544
01:11:56,007 --> 01:11:58,792
That was one of those workouts
where I'll reflect back on that

1545
01:11:58,836 --> 01:12:01,404
when I'm heading
to the starting line in Boston

1546
01:12:01,447 --> 01:12:03,710
and I'm needing to give
myself some confidence.

1547
01:12:03,754 --> 01:12:07,192
Be like, "Well, you know
I can run 23 miles at 5:18 pace

1548
01:12:07,235 --> 01:12:09,499
at 6,000 feet,
so I better be able to run,"

1549
01:12:09,542 --> 01:12:11,805
I don't know, "At least a five
minute pace for a marathon."

1550
01:12:11,849 --> 01:12:14,939
All the injuries
and things he's gone through,

1551
01:12:14,982 --> 01:12:19,639
and to come out on the other
side and, and to have a moment

1552
01:12:19,683 --> 01:12:22,120
of triumph after all
that would be incredible.

1553
01:12:22,163 --> 01:12:24,992
But I think just towing the
line, just finishing the race

1554
01:12:25,036 --> 01:12:28,256
in a solid race, that would be
a victory in itself

1555
01:12:28,300 --> 01:12:29,693
and something he can build on.

1556
01:12:31,434 --> 01:12:34,306
[Ryan] I believe that I'm
finally not over-training,

1557
01:12:34,350 --> 01:12:37,701
and I'm finally giving my body
the rest that it needs

1558
01:12:37,744 --> 01:12:39,703
to progress
how it needs to progress.

1559
01:12:39,746 --> 01:12:41,661
And I think this feeling is,

1560
01:12:41,705 --> 01:12:43,533
I think it's here
to stay this time.

1561
01:12:43,576 --> 01:12:45,709
It's going to be interesting
to see what happens in Boston.

1562
01:12:45,752 --> 01:12:48,364
I'm going to be a little
bit short on time though,

1563
01:12:48,407 --> 01:12:51,541
to be honest, like I wish I had
another month, but I don't.

1564
01:12:51,584 --> 01:12:54,544
But, you know,
Boston is not the end all,

1565
01:12:54,587 --> 01:12:56,459
and I'm really excited
about what's going to happen

1566
01:12:56,502 --> 01:12:57,851
after Boston.

1567
01:12:57,895 --> 01:13:00,550
[birds chirping]

1568
01:13:02,508 --> 01:13:04,162
[man]
We were optimistic about Hall

1569
01:13:04,205 --> 01:13:06,164
entering this race
based on what he said

1570
01:13:06,207 --> 01:13:10,255
about his training in Ethiopia,  his 23 mile tempo run.

1571
01:13:10,298 --> 01:13:12,257
But after his performance,

1572
01:13:12,300 --> 01:13:15,347
perhaps he ran some of his
best performances in workouts,

1573
01:13:15,391 --> 01:13:17,175
which is what led to that 2:17

1574
01:13:17,218 --> 01:13:19,177
and that 20th place
finish in Boston.

1575
01:13:19,220 --> 01:13:22,006
[slow soft music]

1576
01:13:38,370 --> 01:13:40,285
[man] Been battling
some series of injuries

1577
01:13:40,328 --> 01:13:41,852
over the last couple of years.

1578
01:13:41,895 --> 01:13:43,419
But everyone is anxious to see

1579
01:13:43,462 --> 01:13:45,464
how he's going to do on Sunday

1580
01:13:45,508 --> 01:13:47,118
as the native
Californian returns

1581
01:13:47,161 --> 01:13:48,989
to the biggest marathon
in the state,

1582
01:13:49,033 --> 01:13:50,469
let's welcome Ryan Hall.

1583
01:13:50,513 --> 01:13:52,558
[audience clapping]

1584
01:13:52,602 --> 01:13:54,908
[man] How do you find yourself
on the starting line

1585
01:13:54,952 --> 01:13:57,607
after not really being able to
produce the types of marathons

1586
01:13:57,650 --> 01:13:59,826
that we've come
to expect from you?

1587
01:13:59,870 --> 01:14:02,002
Yeah, I'm really excited to,

1588
01:14:02,046 --> 01:14:04,396
to see what,
what happens on Sunday.

1589
01:14:04,440 --> 01:14:06,006
You know, Phoenix was
a really good experience.

1590
01:14:06,050 --> 01:14:07,355
I kind of just need to practice

1591
01:14:07,399 --> 01:14:08,661
competing again, you know?

1592
01:14:08,705 --> 01:14:11,272
Like, after you run 2:04,

1593
01:14:11,316 --> 01:14:14,406
I think people expect you
to always be on time trial

1594
01:14:14,450 --> 01:14:17,017
and at races and, and trying
to run faster than that,

1595
01:14:17,061 --> 01:14:19,933
and it's just going to take some
time to get back to that level

1596
01:14:19,977 --> 01:14:22,240
so I kind of see like
every race as opportunity

1597
01:14:22,283 --> 01:14:24,155
to, to work towards that goal

1598
01:14:24,198 --> 01:14:27,463
of getting back here a year
from now in top form, you know,

1599
01:14:27,506 --> 01:14:29,639
and trying to make
the Olympic team again.

1600
01:14:29,682 --> 01:14:31,989
I was talking to Sara
a couple nights ago

1601
01:14:32,032 --> 01:14:33,599
and I was just kind of venting.

1602
01:14:33,643 --> 01:14:36,254
I was like, "You know,
like I have zero desire

1603
01:14:36,297 --> 01:14:38,778
to get out there and find out
what kind of shape I'm in."

1604
01:14:38,822 --> 01:14:41,607
I'm not curious at all,
and I wish I was.

1605
01:14:41,651 --> 01:14:43,653
[engine rumbling]

1606
01:14:44,523 --> 01:14:46,438
[announcer]  An interesting
storyline that we'll
follow today

1607
01:14:46,482 --> 01:14:48,135
is the potential for a Hall

1608
01:14:48,179 --> 01:14:50,747
sweep as we'll get ready
for the women here.

1609
01:14:50,790 --> 01:14:54,533
We'll start, Sara Hall
making her marathon debut...

1610
01:14:54,577 --> 01:14:58,885
I want to try and inspire
Sara when I run by her.

1611
01:14:58,929 --> 01:15:00,496
That's going to be
a really special moment.

1612
01:15:00,539 --> 01:15:03,107
You know, we're both
in a marathon together.

1613
01:15:03,150 --> 01:15:05,370
[announcer 1]  The elite men getting underway.

1614
01:15:05,413 --> 01:15:07,024
[announcer 2]  Well, we already
see it. Yeah, Ryan Hall

1615
01:15:07,067 --> 01:15:08,852
right to the lead there.

1616
01:15:08,895 --> 01:15:10,549
[interviewer] Do you feel
like your best performances

1617
01:15:10,593 --> 01:15:12,290
are ahead of you or behind you?

1618
01:15:13,987 --> 01:15:15,554
[sighs]

1619
01:15:15,598 --> 01:15:16,990
You know what? I honestly,

1620
01:15:17,034 --> 01:15:19,993
I don't know
if my best performances

1621
01:15:20,037 --> 01:15:21,734
are before me or behind me.

1622
01:15:21,778 --> 01:15:23,780
[announcer]  He hasn't
run a good marathon

1623
01:15:23,823 --> 01:15:26,478
in over three years,
can you believe it?

1624
01:15:26,522 --> 01:15:28,219
I don't know what God has
in the future, you know.

1625
01:15:28,262 --> 01:15:30,134
He hasn't told me.

1626
01:15:30,177 --> 01:15:35,748
I'm getting away from trying
to write my story myself

1627
01:15:35,792 --> 01:15:38,751
and more now,
how can I flow with God

1628
01:15:38,795 --> 01:15:41,275
rather than trying
to bend God's arm

1629
01:15:41,319 --> 01:15:43,190
to do something
that I want Him to do.

1630
01:15:43,234 --> 01:15:45,671
[announcer 1]  The quiz now
is where is Ryan Hall?

1631
01:15:45,715 --> 01:15:47,978
As he is now
not seen in the picture,

1632
01:15:48,021 --> 01:15:50,763
that group of seven
elite athletes.

1633
01:15:50,807 --> 01:15:52,765
[announcer 2]  The bounce has
gone from his stride too.

1634
01:15:52,809 --> 01:15:54,593
He looks to be plodding
a little bit more.

1635
01:15:54,637 --> 01:15:56,856
Victor will have
had a glance across them.

1636
01:15:56,900 --> 01:15:59,729
They've gone through
ten miles now, the men,

1637
01:15:59,772 --> 01:16:01,252
you can see it back
there top left.

1638
01:16:01,295 --> 01:16:02,949
He's done.

1639
01:16:02,993 --> 01:16:04,908
I don't think
he'll get running again.

1640
01:16:04,951 --> 01:16:08,389
He hasn't even had the heart,
perhaps,

1641
01:16:08,433 --> 01:16:11,958
to pass his wife in the lead,
women's pack,
and she won't know,

1642
01:16:12,002 --> 01:16:14,004
-maybe that was part--
-[announcer 1]  Maybe
that was his point.

1643
01:16:14,047 --> 01:16:16,223
[announcer 2]  He didn't want
to depress his wife

1644
01:16:16,267 --> 01:16:17,790
by seeing her, by going past her

1645
01:16:17,834 --> 01:16:19,705
at what is for him,
a slow tempo,

1646
01:16:19,749 --> 01:16:21,794
and then dropping out
and her having to go past him

1647
01:16:21,838 --> 01:16:23,666
and seeing him drop out.
So that could've been a,

1648
01:16:23,709 --> 01:16:26,277
a, a valiant effort from Hall

1649
01:16:26,320 --> 01:16:28,192
to try and save his wife's day.

1650
01:16:30,281 --> 01:16:33,110
[announcer 1]  We'll have
to wait to hear from him
if we get the...

1651
01:16:33,153 --> 01:16:34,981
Well, I haven't spoken
with him yet other than

1652
01:16:35,025 --> 01:16:36,853
he texted me
and he told me that he's okay.

1653
01:16:36,896 --> 01:16:38,985
Um, looked like he was
really doing well

1654
01:16:39,029 --> 01:16:40,987
at the beginning of the race,
and, uh,

1655
01:16:41,031 --> 01:16:42,641
not really sure what,
what happened.

1656
01:16:42,685 --> 01:16:45,339
I think physically
for a while now

1657
01:16:45,383 --> 01:16:49,909
he's actually been in pretty...
in pretty good shape.

1658
01:16:49,953 --> 01:16:52,608
He's been significantly
better than he was

1659
01:16:52,651 --> 01:16:54,479
over a,
a rougher period a while back

1660
01:16:54,522 --> 01:16:56,612
where, you know,
one thing turns into another,

1661
01:16:56,655 --> 01:16:58,614
and turns into another,
turns into another.

1662
01:16:58,657 --> 01:17:02,574
You get to the point where...
you know,

1663
01:17:02,618 --> 01:17:05,098
some of the joy, I think,
is out of it.

1664
01:17:05,142 --> 01:17:07,666
You get into this situation
where you're starting

1665
01:17:07,710 --> 01:17:09,276
to get yourself back out of it,

1666
01:17:09,320 --> 01:17:11,148
you're starting
to get some momentum,

1667
01:17:11,191 --> 01:17:14,151
but that momentum is really,
really fragile

1668
01:17:14,194 --> 01:17:15,718
and it's easy to sort of

1669
01:17:15,761 --> 01:17:17,328
step yourself
over the line a little bit,

1670
01:17:17,371 --> 01:17:20,810
and it's gotten to the point
where... now,

1671
01:17:20,853 --> 01:17:22,812
he still physically can do it,

1672
01:17:22,855 --> 01:17:25,031
he still has
the ability to do it,

1673
01:17:25,075 --> 01:17:26,772
and I still think
he has the desire to do it,

1674
01:17:26,816 --> 01:17:28,687
I just don't truly
believe he's actually

1675
01:17:28,731 --> 01:17:31,864
going to be able to...
to, to turn this around.

1676
01:17:31,908 --> 01:17:33,387
I'm sorry it didn't go
the way he wanted.

1677
01:17:33,431 --> 01:17:34,998
I'm sure he's disappointed
and, uh,

1678
01:17:35,041 --> 01:17:36,826
I hope that he can
get back on track.

1679
01:17:36,869 --> 01:17:38,262
[interviewer]
What does Ryan need to do

1680
01:17:38,305 --> 01:17:40,525
between now and Olympic trials

1681
01:17:40,568 --> 01:17:43,833
to get him prepared to make
a third Olympic team?

1682
01:17:43,876 --> 01:17:45,573
He needs to enjoy running.

1683
01:17:45,617 --> 01:17:48,054
I mean, that's basically
what it comes down to.

1684
01:17:56,410 --> 01:17:59,326
[birds chirping]

1685
01:18:00,719 --> 01:18:02,590
[Ryan] I looked back
at my last four years

1686
01:18:02,634 --> 01:18:04,680
and just took a good honest look

1687
01:18:04,723 --> 01:18:07,508
at how my body was doing, how
I was responding to training,

1688
01:18:07,552 --> 01:18:11,164
big picture-wise,
and it was really easy

1689
01:18:11,208 --> 01:18:14,385
for me to decide that, "Hey,
things are just going downhill,

1690
01:18:14,428 --> 01:18:17,301
and, and I've tried everything
I can think to try,

1691
01:18:17,344 --> 01:18:19,259
and my body's
just not coming back."

1692
01:18:19,303 --> 01:18:22,480
So, it was actually
a really easy decision for me

1693
01:18:22,523 --> 01:18:25,309
to stop running and, and kind
of move on with my life.

1694
01:18:25,352 --> 01:18:28,442
Anyone looking on the outside
could kind of see it coming.

1695
01:18:28,486 --> 01:18:30,314
I had been struggling
for so long

1696
01:18:30,357 --> 01:18:31,881
and nothing was working.

1697
01:18:31,924 --> 01:18:33,404
And when I decided
to stop running,

1698
01:18:33,447 --> 01:18:35,362
I could finally just
look back on it all

1699
01:18:35,406 --> 01:18:36,581
and just be grateful.

1700
01:18:38,714 --> 01:18:40,759
[interviewer] Did you think
that whenever you were to retire

1701
01:18:40,803 --> 01:18:42,282
it would be that easy?
Or did you think

1702
01:18:42,326 --> 01:18:44,284
that it would be
something different?

1703
01:18:45,590 --> 01:18:46,852
[sighs] I've always been kind of

1704
01:18:46,896 --> 01:18:48,114
an all or nothing kind of guy,

1705
01:18:48,158 --> 01:18:49,594
so I think I did kind of picture

1706
01:18:49,637 --> 01:18:51,814
like one day being
really into running

1707
01:18:51,857 --> 01:18:54,077
and then like the next day
just being like, "Okay,
I've had enough."

1708
01:18:54,120 --> 01:18:57,384
Like I always thought it'd be
more drastic than it was.

1709
01:18:57,428 --> 01:18:59,473
I never pictured
like having my announcement

1710
01:18:59,517 --> 01:19:01,084
of retirement being a big deal.

1711
01:19:01,127 --> 01:19:02,825
I always thought, I don't know,
I would write

1712
01:19:02,868 --> 01:19:04,174
a blog about it or something

1713
01:19:04,217 --> 01:19:05,784
and tweet it out
and call it good.

1714
01:19:05,828 --> 01:19:07,612
I told Asics. They were like,

1715
01:19:07,655 --> 01:19:09,701
"We want to help you retire

1716
01:19:09,745 --> 01:19:12,530
and, and transition out
of competitive running."

1717
01:19:12,573 --> 01:19:14,924
[birds chirping]

1718
01:19:16,012 --> 01:19:18,231
I just wasn't expecting
such a big response

1719
01:19:18,275 --> 01:19:19,755
from the running community,

1720
01:19:19,798 --> 01:19:22,322
and such a positive response.

1721
01:19:22,366 --> 01:19:24,237
And Sara commented
when we were talking

1722
01:19:24,281 --> 01:19:26,022
on the phone that day,
she was like,

1723
01:19:26,065 --> 01:19:28,807
"I kind of felt like
you died today." [laughs]

1724
01:19:28,851 --> 01:19:30,113
And it did kind
of feel like that.

1725
01:19:31,418 --> 01:19:33,377
It wasn't a very
emotional day for me,

1726
01:19:33,420 --> 01:19:35,205
because I had known
for a long time.

1727
01:19:35,248 --> 01:19:37,381
And it wasn't until Asics,

1728
01:19:37,424 --> 01:19:40,123
they posted a video
on their website.

1729
01:19:40,166 --> 01:19:42,473
So, I opened it up
and started watching.

1730
01:19:42,516 --> 01:19:44,257
[slow soft music]

1731
01:19:44,301 --> 01:19:46,869
And that was the first
time I got emotional

1732
01:19:46,912 --> 01:19:48,174
about my retirement.

1733
01:19:50,089 --> 01:19:52,570
But what really got me was
the interviews with the people.

1734
01:19:52,613 --> 01:19:54,354
Hi, Ryan, it's Deena,
and it seems

1735
01:19:54,398 --> 01:19:56,052
so fitting to send you
this message

1736
01:19:56,095 --> 01:19:57,140
from the Green Church Road.

1737
01:19:57,183 --> 01:19:58,663
I wanted to congratulate you

1738
01:19:58,706 --> 01:20:01,274
on a great career that you had.

1739
01:20:01,318 --> 01:20:03,929
That's what was really beautiful
about this whole journey

1740
01:20:03,973 --> 01:20:05,626
was all the amazing people,

1741
01:20:05,670 --> 01:20:07,019
all the relationships
that I've built,

1742
01:20:07,063 --> 01:20:08,412
all the good times I've shared

1743
01:20:08,455 --> 01:20:09,674
with so many people.

1744
01:20:11,241 --> 01:20:13,243
And then the other part
of the video that really got me

1745
01:20:13,286 --> 01:20:16,986
was just a real brief
second they showed Kai

1746
01:20:17,029 --> 01:20:18,378
running through the forest,

1747
01:20:18,422 --> 01:20:20,598
and she was
just like in full flight,

1748
01:20:20,641 --> 01:20:22,295
just like eating up the ground.

1749
01:20:22,339 --> 01:20:25,559
And I could feel exactly

1750
01:20:25,603 --> 01:20:27,866
what she was feeling
in that moment.

1751
01:20:27,910 --> 01:20:31,478
Like, just to be in full flight,
just flying effortlessly.

1752
01:20:31,522 --> 01:20:33,567
Just be eating up the ground,
like,

1753
01:20:33,611 --> 01:20:35,918
I know exactly
what that feels like.

1754
01:20:35,961 --> 01:20:37,833
I was like I'm never
going to feel that again,

1755
01:20:37,876 --> 01:20:39,530
and that's, that's kind of sad,

1756
01:20:39,573 --> 01:20:41,662
because that was probably
my favorite part of running.

1757
01:20:41,706 --> 01:20:43,969
[birds chirping]

1758
01:20:44,013 --> 01:20:46,276
To this day I, I still
don't know, you know,

1759
01:20:46,319 --> 01:20:48,147
what my full
potential would've been

1760
01:20:48,191 --> 01:20:51,890
if I would've been 100% firing,

1761
01:20:51,934 --> 01:20:54,066
everything clicked
on the right day in a marathon,

1762
01:20:54,110 --> 01:20:56,112
I still don't know
how fast I could've gone.

1763
01:20:56,155 --> 01:20:57,896
[slow somber music]

1764
01:20:57,940 --> 01:21:00,986
I retire as the fastest American
to ever run a marathon.

1765
01:21:01,030 --> 01:21:03,032
It's like how many
guys can say that?

1766
01:21:04,424 --> 01:21:06,252
I'd say over
the last four years,

1767
01:21:06,296 --> 01:21:09,081
my relationship with God
has gotten a lot better.

1768
01:21:09,125 --> 01:21:10,822
I had a lot of expectations

1769
01:21:10,866 --> 01:21:13,564
of how God should show up
in my running.

1770
01:21:13,607 --> 01:21:17,698
And my faith was
so intertwined with my running

1771
01:21:17,742 --> 01:21:20,353
that the two could affect
each other really well.

1772
01:21:20,397 --> 01:21:21,746
So, I'd start questioning God

1773
01:21:21,789 --> 01:21:23,661
if my running wasn't going well.

1774
01:21:25,097 --> 01:21:30,146
And now, my love for God doesn't
change based on my running

1775
01:21:30,189 --> 01:21:31,495
or any other thing, it's just,

1776
01:21:31,538 --> 01:21:34,019
I'd say I'm more firmly rooted

1777
01:21:34,063 --> 01:21:37,893
because I'm not as affected
by my circumstances.

1778
01:21:37,936 --> 01:21:40,591
Today I'm definitely happier
now than I was four years ago.

1779
01:21:40,634 --> 01:21:42,941
I think there's
been a real split

1780
01:21:42,985 --> 01:21:45,813
between Ryan the runner
and Ryan the person now,

1781
01:21:45,857 --> 01:21:49,469
and I really do feel like
the running part of me died

1782
01:21:49,513 --> 01:21:52,777
that day when we announced
my retirement.

1783
01:21:52,820 --> 01:21:54,170
Right now I'm just focusing

1784
01:21:54,213 --> 01:21:55,693
on the most important
thing in life,

1785
01:21:55,736 --> 01:21:58,957
which is loving God
and loving other people.

1786
01:21:59,001 --> 01:22:01,525
Since I've been retired,
things have changed

1787
01:22:01,568 --> 01:22:03,483
in Sara and I's relationship
a little bit.

1788
01:22:03,527 --> 01:22:06,182
You know, I've stepped
more into a supporting role.

1789
01:22:06,225 --> 01:22:08,967
It's been fun for me
to see her flying

1790
01:22:09,011 --> 01:22:10,969
and to be a part of her journey.

1791
01:22:11,013 --> 01:22:12,971
She's had some really impressive
workouts along the way

1792
01:22:13,015 --> 01:22:16,105
and I feel like I'm kind
of living vicariously
through those.

1793
01:22:17,106 --> 01:22:20,457
[soft piano music]

1794
01:22:21,849 --> 01:22:24,461
Our house always just felt
a little bit empty, our life,

1795
01:22:24,504 --> 01:22:27,507
to me, felt like it was just
kind of missing something.

1796
01:22:27,551 --> 01:22:30,249
Adopting is something
that I talked about doing,

1797
01:22:30,293 --> 01:22:31,990
I guess when I was
like really young,

1798
01:22:32,034 --> 01:22:33,818
like five, my mom told me.

1799
01:22:33,861 --> 01:22:35,472
I think it was just
normal in our family.

1800
01:22:35,515 --> 01:22:38,083
I had about seven
adopted cousins.

1801
01:22:38,127 --> 01:22:40,781
For us, my vision

1802
01:22:40,825 --> 01:22:42,653
had always been
giving children a home

1803
01:22:42,696 --> 01:22:44,263
that may not otherwise have one.

1804
01:22:46,352 --> 01:22:50,008
[Ryan] Sara found a family of
four girls who were all sisters,

1805
01:22:50,052 --> 01:22:51,836
and they couldn't find
a family for them.

1806
01:22:51,879 --> 01:22:54,056
We just fell in love with them,
and they really

1807
01:22:54,099 --> 01:22:56,275
got along well with us.

1808
01:22:56,319 --> 01:22:59,975
It felt like God put the love
in my heart for these kids.

1809
01:23:01,324 --> 01:23:03,891
And now that we have kids,
life feels complete.

1810
01:23:05,197 --> 01:23:06,720
One of the things
I love about Sara is just

1811
01:23:06,764 --> 01:23:09,723
like she does everything
with such excellence.

1812
01:23:09,767 --> 01:23:11,987
And she imparts
that to our girls.

1813
01:23:12,030 --> 01:23:13,510
She's really good at instilling

1814
01:23:13,553 --> 01:23:16,121
important life characteristics

1815
01:23:16,165 --> 01:23:20,256
that you want your kids
to have into our kids.

1816
01:23:20,299 --> 01:23:22,649
It's been really fun being a dad
for the last six months.

1817
01:23:22,693 --> 01:23:25,609
It honestly has not been
that hard to be a dad

1818
01:23:25,652 --> 01:23:28,003
just because they are
such great kids.

1819
01:23:31,093 --> 01:23:34,270
If I was to just impart
one thing to the girls,

1820
01:23:34,313 --> 01:23:38,056
I'd want them to develop
a deep love for God

1821
01:23:38,100 --> 01:23:40,102
and a deep love for themself.

1822
01:23:40,145 --> 01:23:42,234
I think if you have that,

1823
01:23:42,278 --> 01:23:44,758
then you can do a lot
of different things in life

1824
01:23:44,802 --> 01:23:47,848
and, and always live
a fulfilling and happy life.

1825
01:23:47,892 --> 01:23:49,720
[family chattering]

1826
01:23:49,763 --> 01:23:52,288
[Ryan]  The last six months
have been so much fun.

1827
01:23:52,331 --> 01:23:55,465
It feels like how life
is supposed to feel.

1828
01:23:55,508 --> 01:23:56,988
Okay, let's pray.

1829
01:23:58,250 --> 01:24:00,035
-[all] Amen.
-Amen.

1830
01:24:00,078 --> 01:24:01,166
[child 1] Nice.

1831
01:24:02,602 --> 01:24:04,082
[child 2] So I'm going
to eat it like this, like--

1832
01:24:04,126 --> 01:24:06,780
[Sara]  So, what's everyone's
favorite thing

1833
01:24:06,824 --> 01:24:09,044
from school today
and the hardest thing?

1834
01:24:09,087 --> 01:24:11,263
[child]  Ah, you can't do that.

1835
01:24:11,307 --> 01:24:16,312
[slow soft music]