Hi, friends. Welcome to another episode of That Sounds Fun. I'm your host, Adi F Down.

So happy to be here with you today. It is a beautiful Monday. Let's go, right?

Hey, the music in the background is from our good friend, Mr. Del McLaughlin.

Make sure you grab a copy of his most recent album, Anxed in Grace. It's so, so good.

Now, today on the show is our second in the history of the pod. I think this is our second

Olympic athlete with Sean Johnson being the first. If I'm wrong, tell me on the internet, but I'm

pretty sure that this is our second Olympic athlete. Ryan Hall is the American record holder for

the half marathon. He made a half marathon in 59 minutes and 43 seconds and has the fastest

marathon time ever run by an American at two hours and four minutes and 58 seconds. He

represented the United States in the 2008 and the 2012 Olympic Games in the marathon. He has a new

book out called Run the Mile. You're in one of my dear friends. Heather is a huge runner, huge

fan of Ryan's and as soon as she saw his book on my desk said, you have got to have him on the podcast.

I said, okay, Heather, I will do what you say. And so today on the podcast, my new friend who I

am a huge fan of now and you think you're going to love this conversation with author and marathoner

and the fastest American half marathoner, Ryan Hall.

Tom Dean, that is your marketing guy. Yeah, yeah. He's a big reason why I even wrote this book

to begin with. Really? Okay, tell me that. I didn't know that. This is what I decided for

pitch and Tom Dean. I just love the guy. Yeah, he's awesome. So he emailed me like maybe 10 years

ago, being like, hey, have you ever thought about writing a book? Like I'm a runner, I'm also work

as a zondervant. So I started a book like over and over and over again. Like I had like 10 drafts

on my email. Yeah. But never got through like the first couple chapters. Yeah. Because it just

didn't feel like it was the time. Like my story felt like it was still in the telling. And so after

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