Sara Hall -For the Love of the Grind!

Marathon Training Academy

Angie and Trevor

Fitness, Sports, Running, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 21 April 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In this episode we speak with Sara Hall about her new memoir ‘For The Love Of The Grind’! Sara won the Master’s Division at the 2026 Boston Marathon with a time of 2:31:55.

Sara Hall has been competing for over twenty years and has been nationally ranked for almost three decades. She is a previous American record holder in the Half Marathon when she ran 1:07:15 at the Houston Half in 2022. Sara and Ryan Hall live in Flagstaff, Arizona, and have four adopted daughters from Ethiopia.

For the Love of the Grind is a love letter to running, and the story of Sara’s growth as an athlete, wife, and mom.

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1:28.2	life. In this episode, we speak with Sarah Hall about her book for the love of the grind. Sarah just
1:33.8	ran the Boston Marathon yesterday, in fact, at the time of this recording and was the first place
1:39.3	master's female. And we'd just like to remind you as an academy member, you can work with one of our
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1:49.4	academy.com. Okay, so Marathon Monday in Boston was just yesterday. It was the 130th year that this
1:57.9	thing has been run. That's right. So let's do a quick roundup here, Angie.
2:01.9	Yeah, this year they did six starting waves instead of the usual four.
2:05.1	They were trying to spread out the field a little bit more.
2:09.0	And there were roughly 30,000 runners who participated.
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