Haruki Murakami’s What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (2007) is the classic running memoir. One thing that contributed to the shift from experiencing running as drudgery to running as enjoyable – at times even joyful – was reading about the stories and experiences of other runners.
It took about a year of forcing myself out the door and onto the pavement every few days before I actually started looking forward to each run.
What changed in between? I’m not exactly sure how it happened, but running went from something I felt I should do to something I love to do. Fast forward to April of this year, and after months of training, I was crossing the finish line in my first marathon. So, I laced up an old pair of tennis shoes and ran a slow, painful 2 miles around my neighborhood. However, my 30th birthday was right around the corner, and I felt like I needed to do something to counteract my increasingly sedentary lifestyle. In the fall of 2015, I hadn’t run so much as a mile since college. Sure, I’d run in high school as part of conditioning for basketball and baseball, but I never enjoyed it. According to a June 26 Instagram post, he was even heavier not too long ago (up to 182 pounds) before he started a two-month weight-loss phase which brought him down to 165, still 40 pounds heavier than his race weight back when he was competing.Just a few short years ago, I would have told you how much I hated running. Hall weighed about 125 pounds when he retired, and he now weighs in at 165. Hall has been at it for four years, and in that time, he has packed on a lot of muscle, proving that anyone - yes, even runners, who are notorious for hating the gym - can fall in love with weight and strength training. He also holds the unofficial American marathon record with a time of 2:04:58 from the 2011 Boston Marathon, although since it was run on a point-to-point course, it didn’t count in the record books. With a personal best of 59:43 in the half-marathon, Hall is the American record-holder at that distance. Since ending his professional running career in 2016, Ryan Hall has made an incredible physical transformation after diving into weightlifting in retirement.
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