You dream about the Olympics for so long and you have that one day, then it’s over, and when you don’t run well there is this huge letdown. It took me years to deal with that. I feel like I almost had to cleanse myself of that experience. Ryan Hall Read Quote
I may not drink an electrolyte beverage during the race. If I am running in an hour, I won’t need one. But if you’re running an hour-and-a-half to two hours or more, maybe you need a little bit of the electrolytes. Ryan Hall Read Quote
The big thing is hydrating the day before the race. I will have 20 ounces of water right when I get up in the morning the day before, and I’ll drink throughout the day. Ryan Hall Read Quote
But it is nice to know that you have other races lined up, because sometimes you can get so focused on your next marathon that it can become kind of unhealthy in some ways. So it’s nice to have something else to slap you in the face and say, all right, there is life after the Olympics. Ryan Hall Read Quote
It’s kind of nice in some ways having an Olympic Trials where I finished second. You can kind of go in more under the radar facing a 2:03 guy and facing a lot of dudes who are faster than I am, whereas, before Beijing, I had one of the top 10 times in the field, or something like that. Ryan Hall Read Quote
I really didn’t feed off the whole Olympic experience at all, and I regret that from an athletic perspective, and also from a personal experience. I feel like I missed out, so I’m not going to do that this time. Ryan Hall Read Quote
I think the biggest thing was that I was putting pressure on myself leading up to Beijing. Now I am learning how to take that pressure off and seeing this as an incredible opportunity, but not like, ‘I absolutely have to medal.’ Ryan Hall Read Quote
