<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Ryan Shay: News &amp; Videos about Ryan Shay - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Ryan_Shay</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Ryan Shay from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:21:21 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>Ryan Shay: News &amp; Videos about Ryan Shay - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/1.0/logo/cnn.logo.rss.gif</url><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Ryan_Shay</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Ryan Shay from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>David Epstein: Keflezighi posts an historic win for a fallen friend</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/david_epstein/11/01/nyc.marathon/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/david_epstein/11/01/nyc.marathon/index.html</guid><description>If you're 34-year-old Meb Keflezighi, what tribute could you possibly come up with that would be a fitting honor for your friend and training partner Ryan Shay, who collapsed and died in November 2007 during the U.S. Olympic marathon trials in New York City?</description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:02:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Tim Layden:  Waiting for closure</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/tim_layden/11/09/ryanshay/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/tim_layden/11/09/ryanshay/index.html</guid><description>Someday there will be healing. There is always healing in the end. Ryan Shay died in Central Park six days ago during the U.S. Olympic marathon trials and he will be laid to rest Sunday in his native northern Michigan. That is a place, he often told his coaches and training partners, where he dreamed of building a cabin in the woods and living quietly with his family when his professional running career was over.</description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:34:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Tim Layden: Running community puzzled by Shay's death</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/tim_layden/11/03/shay.death/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/tim_layden/11/03/shay.death/index.html</guid><description>Three runners took seats at a press conference table late Saturday morning. In the middle was Ryan Hall, 25, who had just delivered a transcendent performance in winning the U.S. men's Olympic marathon trials. On a relentlessly hilly Central Park course, Hall had run the second half of his race in a withering one hour, two minutes and 45 seconds and finished in a Trials record of 2:09:02, validating his position as the most promising young distance runner in the country and potentially the first native-born U.S. runner to challenge the best marathoners in the world in more than two decades. He had run the last quarter mile shaking his fists and waving to the crowd gathered on the finishing slope.</description><pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2007 19:11:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Running Champ Dies in Marathon Trial</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1680447,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1680447,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Top distance runner Ryan Shay died during the U.S. men's Olympic marathon trials Saturday after collapsing about 5 1/2 miles into the race. He was 28</description><pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2007 18:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>