Socialing the Distance (Full Episode), Episode 128: Anna Hall speaks on the heptathlon

This is episode 128 of #SocialingtheDistance, featuring #AnnaHall, a podcast series featuring interviews of the finest athletes, coaches and key players in the sport of global athletics.

Socialing The Distance (Full Episodes)

RunBlogRun presents

Socialing The Distance with Larry Eder Featuring Anna Hall,

NCAA Champion & adidas sponsored athlete

This is Episode 128 of #SoclaingtheDistance, originally shown on May 19, 2023.

Since this broadcast, Anna Hall has won the silver medal in the WC Budapest heptathlon,

set a new AR at the pentathlon, missing the WR by a small amount.

Anna Hall leads the Hep on day 1,
USATF Outdoor Track & Field Championships
Eugene, Oregon, USA
July 31 – August 3, 2025, photo by Kevin Morris

In 2024, Anna Hall, sponsored by adidas, won the U.S. Olympic Trials, after dealing with injuries and

then took a heart-breaking fifth in the Paris 2024 Olympics.

In 2025, Anna Hall went to Gotsiz, the European and spiritual home of the multi-events, to score 7,032 points

in the heptathlon, equalling the second finest performance ever by the multi-event deity Karolina Kluft (Sweden),

and just behind the G.O.A.T. herself, Jackie Joyner-Kersee.

Anna Hall heptathlon, shot put, USATF Outdoor Track & Field Championships
Eugene, Oregon, USA
July 31 – August 3, 2025, photo by Kevin Morris

A story: in Eugene at the Worlds in 2022, I was having lunch at the adidas Hospitality House (thanks Danny Lopez, Spencer Nel and

Jennifer Thomas), and Jim Jennings, adidas running shoe guru and JJK show up. I get a few minutes with one of my favorite human beings, JJK, and ask her, ” your thoughts on Anna Hall?”. JJK takes nary a moment, smiles broadly and say, ” Anna is the IT girl.” I asked our the world’s greatest to explain. ” Anna has the talent, the work-ethic, the looks, the charm to do it all.” Well, I think that says it.

Anna Hall, heptathlon, Long Jump, USATF Outdoor Track & Field Championships
Eugene, Oregon, USA
July 31 – August 3, 2025, photo by Kevin Morris

Anna Hall won the heptathlon in the US champs in early August in 6,889 points, and ths puts her at the top of the medal charts, in my mind, with Nafi Thiam and Katerina Johnson-Thompson.

If you miss one event in #Tokyo2025, please do not let it be the heptathlon!

Special thanks to Anna Hall, who is always a wonderous interview.

Anna Hall, heptathlon winner, USATF Outdoor Track & Field Championships
Eugene, Oregon, USA
July 31 – August 3, 2025, photo by Kevin Morris

Special thanks to Mike Deering/The Shoe Addicts, who edits, manages, curates and does the final production for all RBR podcasts, from #ConvoswLarry, #SocialingtheDistance, #AthleticsChats, Event Previews and Reviews and the #YouTube versions of #CoffeewithLarry!

Find Anna on Twitter:

/ annaahalll

Find Anna on Instagram:

/ annaa.hall

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Larry Eder

Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys.

Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."

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