Chasing Glory & 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials

Check out the New York Road Runners feature called Chasing Glory. They are profiling some of the runners participating in the Trials. Pretty cool videos. A new one is added every Tuesday and Thursday. On November 3, 2007, New York Road Runners will host the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Men’s Marathon in New York City.

I hope Ryan Hall (picture above) wins tomorrow. The expectations riding on Hall, a California native and 2005 Stanford graduate, have risen dramatically in the past 14 months. He set the USA 20K record in October 2006, then went on to smash the 22-year-old national half-marathon mark—in his debut—when he clocked 59:43 in Houston in January. But those performances were just a warm-up to Hall’s 2:08:24 marathon debut in London in April. The performance established a new American debut record, eclipsing the 2:09:41 held jointly by Alan Culpepper and Alberto Salazar.