My ex-Boston Marathon 2010

Last night i managed to drag my lovely wife to see the ‘encore’ presentation of the famed movie “Spirit of the Marathon”. Movie theatre was full of people, and looking around i could swear most of them couldnt run 5k. Again i was probably wrong, it just shows that runners come in all sizes and shapes. It is documentary movie, following couple, completely different, runners in their atempt to finish Chicago Marathon 2005.  One is postgraduate student, whose running style reminds me of mine, then Kenyan running 3rd time trying to win, 68 men running this time with his daughter, and couple in their 30s going for BQ.I liked the movie. I didnt kill the spirit with unnecessary calculations of pace, carb loading ideas, describing diferences between tempo and fartleg runs, and everything else that non-runner might find trully annoying and borring. It made me realize something, we runners, are obsessed with running (mildly obsessed, my wife remark), and constantly talk and think about it. Except while we are running. Director gave short history of the marathon, from Ancient Greek time, to interesting modern events, first women at Boston Marathon, and how her hubby pushed race director who tried to pull her out of the race.But most importantly, it shows a human side of the marathon. It is not about time, or pace. It is not about PR or anything alike. Every single runner has a dream, whatever it could be, winning the Chicago marathon, setting new world record, finish first one, BQ, finish it with your daughter. And in those few hours anywhere from 2 to 6 hours, those dreams are made, or painfully broken. How strong our mind and body are, how much we will jump out of the comfort zone, and accomplish something it shouldn’t normally be done by humans. After all, it is same 26.2 miles, same track, same race.  Movie gives a simple message about marathon runners, in one short sequence during the Chicago Marathon 2005. In the back you can see the sign that reads:”Y’all are nuts”