Spirit of the Marathon (Read 648 times)

I saw it and really felt badly for the guy with the meniscus proglem so could not run then was elated when he and his wife ran Boston together. I was silent while watching Daniel at the finish. All that work and still #2... it's gotta hurt.

I didn't know about the q&a at the end. That was really a great movie! I really related to all the emotions of the runners from the disappointment of the guy getting hurt (I'm hurt now) to feeling nervous just before the race. If you run this is a must see.

My favorite part was being in the theater with all my running friends. You put that many women together high on their own endorphins, happy to be in their skinny jeans eating buttered popcorn you have to have a good time. I admire Deena Kastor so much, I think of the elites she was the perfect choice to focus on. Was really interesting what she said how she relied on her talent for a long, and only after college started to work at it. They wrapped up the movie very well. I bet the DVD has lots of extra scenes not in the movie that would be interesting as well. I'm working through some injuries now and thought maybe it'd be depressing to watch it, but actually it gave me hope Oh and I think the older guy should loose some weight to get faster before moving to an advanced program. The girl that struggled in the marathon,what happened? Was she tired or hurt? Thought she had ice on her knees at the end.

Awesome...it was so well done. I wanted them all to do so well (except for the whiney guy, but I was even happy at the end to see that he had BQd with his wife). Loved the bits of humor, too.

He didn't really whine that much. He poured his heart and soul into BQing and came up short though no fault of his own. I'd be torqued, too. It never said he qualified, it just said he ran it with his wife. I tried to find info to see if he had run a qualifying time or if he registered as an unqualified entrant but couldn't find out one way or another. I liked the movie quite a bit, too. I thought Deana Kastor was probably the most interesting case. I had read that she did little running but cross trained her butt off because of her injury. She tried to be stoic about, but you could tell she was really rattled. Also it was cool hearing her talk about winning the bronze and how she needed to win a marathon. All in all they had a nice cross section of characters. It seemed everyone had some aspects of their relationship to running to which I could either relate or be inspired by.