Saturday, January 29, 2011

Ryan Hall: " I’m at peace.”

By DALE ROBERTSON

Ryan Hall has returned to Houston with a new look and his old, sky’s-the-limit attitude. Part of that is him feeling better after a rough patch and part of it is this city, a place he calls “my land of breakthroughs.”

“Whenever I go home, I have a good feeling and good memories,” Hall said. “There’s just a special level of comfort, and that’s how I feel about being in Houston.

It’s like ‘ahh’ . . . I’m at peace.”

You might not recognize him with the bushy, mountain-man beard — he hasn’t shaved since November, much to his wife Sara’s chagrin — but he said he’s back to running free and easy like the guy who startled us so in the 2007 Aramco Services Half Marathon, becoming the first American to cover the 13.1 miles in less than an hour.

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