Editor’s note: Sara Hall started running at 13, and since then has won 10 U.S. National Championship titles and became the only American to win national titles in both the mile and the marathon. The one remaining dream she has been chasing throughout her career is making the Olympic Team. In 2023, she was getting ready for her eighth—and what she imagined would likely be her last—U.S. Olympic Team Trials, with the help of her husband and coach, Ryan Hall, and physical therapist JB. She recounts the time leading up to the trials in this excerpt from her memoir FOR THE LOVE OF THE GRIND: A Memoir by Sara Hall . I sat in a wheelchair in the Boston airport, bewildered, ambivalent to the people watching tears roll down my face. I had just run the 2023 Beach to Beacon 10K , an August road race in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. Just minutes after I finished the race and the adrenaline wore off, I was in so much pain I couldn’t walk.…