A Brief Chat With Brian Sell

By Peter Gambaccini

Photos of Brian Sell (top) and of Sell, Ryan Hall, and Dathan Ritzenhein (bottom) by Victah Sailer

Brian Sell of the Michigan-based Hansons-Brooks Distance Project was third at the U.S. Olympic Men’s Marathon Trials in November in 2:11:40 and will compete in the Beijing Olympics along with Ryan Hall and Dathan Ritzenhein. In 2006, Sell was sixth in the LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon in 2:10:47 and fourth in the Boston Marathon in 2:10:55. Sell was ninth in the marathon at the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki in 2:13:27. In other 2008 action, Sell won his third USA 25K title in May in 1:15:02, won the ING Miami Half-Marathon (a course record 1:03:46) and AT&T Austin Half-Marathon (1:04:11), and was fourth in the USA 15K (44:47). He won the...