Meet Ryan and Sara Hall

Husband and wife Ryan and Sara Hall are two of America’s premier distance runners. Both were California high school superstars and All-Americans at Stanford University (where they met). Ryan has posted the best-ever American times in the Half Marathon and Marathon and has represented the US in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Sara has won several premier road races, including the Drake Relays Grand Blue Mile and the US National Road Mile Championships. She has been a two-time world team member for the US at the World Indoor Track and Field Championships.

Guided by their faith, and seeking a way use their athletic success in service of others, Ryan and Sara co-founded The Hall Steps Foundation in the Fall of 2009 in order to fight poverty through better health.


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The Training Season

The last week I went on a tweeting drought. All the excitement from being on the road completely died and life became wonderfully simple again. Not much to tweet about. I ate, slept, trained, got my usual doses of therapy, … Continue reading


The Extra 1%

Yesterday as Sara and I were finishing up a nice relaxing summer dinner with her family we were releazing that we still had some auxiliary training to finish up even though it had already been a long day of training. … Continue reading


Ryan: Where does strength come from?

Where does strength come from? The other day I was finishing up a “yog,” as Sara and I call them.  ”Yogs” are runs on those days after really hard workouts when the fatigue is so great from the previous days … Continue reading