It came at the 2012 Rome Marathon, and his long journey from grieving father to 62-year-old first-time marathoner is one of seven stories told in the film "Spirit of the Marathon II." The two-year project of director Jon Dunham and producer Gwendolen Twist opens June 12 at more than 600 theaters nationwide. It follows up on the critically acclaimed first film with another very personal look at seven runners from around the world and their very different reasons for running 26.2 miles through the streets of Rome.
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Though "Spirit of the Marathon II" is undoubtedly a sports movie, the marathon is simply the vehicle for Dunham and Twist to tell the stories of some fascinating people. Dunham knows that runners are likely to embrace this film as they did the first one, but he also is certain it will connect with people who have never run even a 5K.
"The first movie really is about the process of preparing for and the road to the marathon, so to speak, in a very nuts and bolts kind of way," Dunham said. "This one is a lot more emotional. It's really about the people and their own personal life journeys; their own stories that brought them to this particular point where they're running this race."
The film follows the runners through their preparation, the actual marathon and beyond. The city of Rome, too, has a principal role. After centering the first "Spirit" in Chicago, Dunham was looking for a city abroad that would tell its own more exotic story. Rome struck him as perfect. He weaves into the film Italy's rich running history through interviews with two-time New York marathon champion Orlando Pizzolato, Olympic champions Gelindo Bordin and Stafano Baldini and discusses Rome's experience as host of the 1960 Games.
Dunham, Twist and two of the film's subjects, Scott and Weiss, were on hand at the marathon's expo to talk about the movie and hand out passes for two showings, held in the Gaslamp Quarter, not far from where the next day's race would end.
When he travels to running expos and marathons all over the world -- he's run 25 marathons himself -- he still has people approach him to say how much the movie meant to them and how it inspired them to run their first marathon or tackle another goal.
As Scott sat in the theater lobby on June 1, waiting to watch himself in "Spirit of the Marathon II" for the first time, he said he was more nervous than he was before going to Rome to run. Yet he was eager to learn the stories of all the runners who ran the race with him that day, most of whom he's never met. He believes a marathon is a perfect storytelling device. Like a book, it has a beginning, a middle and an end.
Kyriakides was born in 1910 and competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. There he met famous American runner and Massachusetts native Johnny Kelley, who invited Kyriakides to participate in the Boston Marathon. Kyriakides participated in the 1938 marathon, but a foot injury prevented him from finishing. He vowed he would return one day and win the competition.
During World War II, Kyriakides was part of the Greek resistance and narrowly survived execution by German troops in 1943, when he presented his Olympic ID and was allowed to walk away by the commanding officer. Kyriakides returned to the U.S. for the 1946 marathon. It was the midst of the Greek Civil War, and Kyriakides had to sell most of his belongings to buy a single one-way ticket. He chose to run for his country and won with a time of 2:29:27. His cause garnered tremendous support and he returned to Greece with 25,000 tons of aid and $250,000 to help the starving population.
Weiss completed her goal to run 52 marathons in 52 weeks in 2013 at the ASICS Los Angeles Marathon. She said she became involved with the Lazarex Cancer Foundation because she strongly believed in the support system the program provides, as well as the opportunity to offer end stage cancer patients one more option.
Lazarex Cancer Foundation started Team for Life as a fundraising campaign due to the connection between crossing the finish line of a marathon, and crossing the finish line in fighting cancer. For Weiss, this connection holds true in every race she runs.
Tom Derderian ran the Boston Marathon for the first time while a senior in high school in Milford MA. He ran track and cross-country at the University of Massachusetts, graduating with a degree in Journalism. He ran in the US Olympic Trials marathons in 1972 and 1976. His fastest Boston was 2:19:04.
John Stephen Akhwari was never likely to win the men's marathon, but his chances were wrecked when, perhaps because of the effects of the high altitude, he succumbed to cramps that slowed his progress. If that was painful, then worse was to come after he was involved in a melee of athletes jockeying for position.
Akhwari recovered from his injuries and continued running long-distance races. He finished fifth in the marathon at the Commonwealth Games in 1970 and also ran the 10,000m at the same championships. He was a good runner, but his performance, courage and dedication in the face of adversity is what history will remember him for.
Starting off at 15-15, Spirit and HEET kept on following each other. Despite HEET getting an 18-21 lead and only needing one round on the T side, Spirit kept on playing at a high level as the Russian team also managed to get three consecutive rounds on the CT side. The game kept on going until 31-28 when spirit finally took down three rounds in a row on the CT side, and managed to convert that into just one round win on the T side. 1 hour and 15 minutes of overtime made this the longest game we have seen in professional CS for a while.
Timing System: Timing detectors will be placed at the starting line, 5k, 10k, 20k, half marathon, 25k, 30k, 35k, 40k and at the finish line. Your splits will be recorded and available through our app and on the live results page online.
Summer 1896: The marathon at the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896 served as the inspiration for the B.A.A. Boston Marathon. John Graham, coach and manager of the B.A.A. athletes, was a keen observer of the Marathon-to-Athens Race and returned to Boston with plans to institute a strikingly similar long-distance run the following spring.
Sri Chinmoy believed that running is beneficial to physical health but also can give an inner spiritual fulfilment. Running teaches us determination, focus and reminds us of our aspiration to go beyond our previous limitations. Running is both physically challenging but, at the same time, gives an inner joy and satisfaction. Many runners attest to the fact that running can take us out of an ordinary consciousness and give a glimpse into a state of mind beyond our usual thoughts and emotions.
Running takes us out of our comfort zone. It teaches us that we are more capable than we perhaps realise. To a non-runner, completing a marathon may seem an impossible task, but if we train, we realise we are capable of much more than we realise. Whilst running, we get in touch with a different part of ourself, and we learn more about our inner reserves.
If we value running as a spiritual exercise, then it can become something much more than just the outer running. When running, we can feel we are making inner progress and striving to reach our inner goal.
Samunnati Lehonkova is an Olympic marathon runner who took up running at an early age after becoming a disciple of Sri Chinmoy. In this short video, Samunnati talks about how she started meditation and running at the same time, and how she attempts to practise self-transcendence through running.
A film that explores the spiritual significance of running in different cultures across the world. It includes the Gaolo-San bushmen in Botswana, the legendary Japanese gyoman-san running monks, the Navajo runners in the deserts of Arizona, and the runners of the Sri Chinmoy Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race in Jamaica, Queens, New York.
I started to go to University and I started to run really slowly. I remember my very first run and I just left my house and I ran around the block, it was like five minutes and I felt okay, I started running. Then I increased the distance. It was like twenty-five years ago so there were no, not that many races like there are now and the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team we started organising races, six hours, twelve hours, 100k. So when we did organise these races I wanted to try them out and see how far I could go. So from those five minutes I went to 3k, 10k then a marathon and then that six-hour. Then I still felt I could do more. So, it was just nice to widen my limits or my so-called limits. In a way, it was growing really slowly and then we organised a twenty-hour hour race and then actually I was helping my friend in New York and she ran a race that was one thousand miles long. It was in a park on a one-mile loop and I remember running a marathon after she finished the race maybe a week later. And I ran a marathon on the same loop and I remember that it was my easiest marathon ever because it was twenty-six laps whereas she had to do one thousand laps. So I could totally see how if you change your perspective, if something feels difficult then just look at it from a different side or different height. So that was my easiest marathon.
To this end, ultra-running is an excellent vehicle for runners to transcend their previous limitations. Sri Chinmoy himself ran several marathons and ultra-marathons. In 1977, he founded the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team which was a pioneer of multi-day running in the 1980s and today continues to organise The Sri Chinmoy 3100 Mile Self-Transcendence Race.
The word marathon can bring about a lot of emotions for people. It can be a great sense of accomplishment for those who have achieved it and a sense of overwhelming dread or downright feelings of inadequacy and impossibility for others.
We want to make prayer a habit, which is a stable disposition to do the good. We start with five minutes, purposely putting prayer time or blocks into our daily routines. We want it to become a part of who we are, something that becomes natural and easy to accomplish. For Father Conrad, the seminary drilled this into his daily life. We have to put ourselves on a training plan and stick to it. We have to be looking to grow and to better our spiritual fitness. 2ff7e9595c
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