Last week we highlighted Olympic marathoner Ryan Hall’s fundraising page for World Vision on the Team Firstgiving Blog. (By the way, Hall finished 10th in Beijing, helping the U.S. team to its best finish in 32 years).
At Firstgiving, we know that endurance sports events have extraordinary power to inspire, especially when athletes are also fundraising [...]
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A big congrats from Team Firstgiving to the US Olympic marathon team! Dathan Ritzenhein and Ryan Hall gave the United States a pair of top-10 finishers for the first time since 1976, when Frank Shorter was second and Don Kardong fourth in Montreal. The third American in the field, Brian Sell, was 22nd in 2:16:07.
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This Sunday, Ryan Hall will compete in his first Olympic marathon.
If you’re like me, it’s hard to imagine running a 2:09:02 marathon – this was Ryan’s time at the US Olympic Trials in New York City last Fall. His wife Sara is also an amazing middle distance professional runner for Team Running USA.
However, there’s one [...]
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