Professional runner Ryan Hall will toe the line with 26,000+ other runners this Monday at the 113th running of the Boston Marathon.
Like the 900 Boston-bound runners fundraising on Firstgiving, Ryan and his wife Sara (also a professional runner) have a fundraising page, too.
If you can’t be in Boston to cheer Ryan on, show your support [...]

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If you’ve been following Ryan Hall’s marathon career, you may have heard: he’s running the 2009 Boston Marathon as part of the John Hancock Elite Team.
Hall finished 10th at the Beijing Olympics with the best U.S. finish in 32 years, inspired a bunch of Firstgiving fundraisers to raise money online and run the Chicago Marathon [...]

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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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