Episode 304: Ryan Hall – Career, Coaching Wife Sara Hall, Lifting, Family & Faith
I'll Have Another with Lindsey Hein Podcast
SandyBoy Productions
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🗓️ 5 March 2021
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Ryan Hall retired from Professional running in 2016 and began focusing on weight lifting as well as coaching his wife Sara Hall. He holds the American Record in the Half Marathon (59:43) and also holds the fastest marathon time ever ran by an American at the Boston Marathon (2:04: 58). He is a two time Olympian and now focuses on sharing all of the information he has learned over the years with his community over at Run Free Training.
What we talked about:
6:30- His current running and weightlifting schedule
10:50- Structuring weight training for the athletes that he coaches
13:05- How having weightlifting as an outlet helped him transition out of professional running
16:10- What he and his family have been up to
18:45- What it’s been like coaching Sara and their thoughts after all of last year’s races
27:25- What he is doing as a coach to help Sara transition from marathon training to 5k/10k training
30:50- Mistakes that a lot of runners make in the weight room
37:00- Reflecting on his own running career
54:55- His current roster of athletes that he coaches
57:35- Ryan’s podcast Run Free Podcast
59:40- How Ryan has stayed firm in his faith throughout various points in his life
1:06:15- What has changed since he’s become a father
1:10:05- End of podcast questions
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Sandy Boy Productions podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 0:17.0 | Hey everybody, welcome to all have another podcast with Lindsay Hein. |
| 0:23.5 | I am your host Lindsay and I'm so grateful you're here today. |
| 0:27.6 | Today you are listening to episode 304 and I'm talking with Ryan Hall. |
| 0:34.4 | If you have been following the sport of running for a little bit now, you know who Ryan Hall is. |
| 0:40.2 | He has been retired from the sport of running for five years now, |
| 0:44.5 | but he is the American record holder in the half marathon with a time of 59-43. |
| 0:51.0 | He also holds the fastest marathon time held by an American marathoner with a time of 204-58. |
| 0:59.1 | That was run at the Boston Marathon and that record does have an asterisk next to it |
| 1:04.6 | because it was run on a net downhill course. |
| 1:07.8 | He competed in two Olympic games, Beijing and London. |
| 1:11.8 | And after he retired from running, he got really into weightlifting, |
| 1:17.8 | which we're going to hear all about in this episode. |
| 1:21.2 | He is married to professional runner Sarah Hall, who is just having a crazy, crazy year. |
| 1:28.6 | Sarah has been on this podcast several times, so make sure you check out her episodes |
| 1:33.2 | if you haven't already done so. |
| 1:35.2 | They have four daughters and Ryan currently coaches Sarah. |
| 1:39.4 | He also has a coaching business called Run Free Training where he has a podcast as well. |
| 1:45.4 | We get into so much in this episode and I don't really know what I was expecting |
| 1:52.0 | after this episode or to come of this episode, |
| 1:55.7 | but I left feeling really motivated to chase some big goals and test my limits. |
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