Ryan Hall to Coach Self

After leaving the Mammoth Track Club and his coach, Hall announced that he will coach himself. He plans on running either London or Boston in 2011.

This is on point from a letsrun.com forum contributor:

"The thing that is really sad about Ryan Hall is that he reminds us of our own failures. Ryan is the best we have and if he can't win a major race how will we? His failures hit a chord with our internal ego, and it is devastating.

Every time I see him race I have flashbacks to my own races, my own disappointments. Failures like PRing by 20 seconds in the 5k and still getting blasted in the last lap by some kid from Eldorett or any other time we compete to the max of our ability and still get manhandled. Ryan is far more talented than me and watching him fail is the most devastating thing to ever happen to my running psych. Every time he loses we wonder why we run. This super talent, this High school and NCAA all star who blows the rest of us away at the trials and has every advantage an American can have is easily put away by some hut dwelling corn eating teen from Iten.

So to you who wonder why we are obsessed with Ryan Hall, maybe you should wonder why you aren't. He symbolizes the best any of us can do at this point."