Running movies

A new tradition we adopted last summer is watching a movie or documentary about running on Friday nights. In our marathon/half-marathon training, we usually do the weekly "long run" on Saturday mornings. Watching other runners - and their trials and triumphs - helps inspire us, and makes getting out of bed the next morning just a little easier.

While learning about some of the greats of the sport is interesting, it's actually some of the shows about "normal" runners like us that we find most motivational (The Human Race, From Fat To Finish, etc.).

I've been meaning to make a list of movies we've watched since... last year... but never seem to get around to it. Many of them were discovered (by us) in three different articles from Runners World:

• The 28 Best Running Movies Ever (2018)
• The Best Running Documentaries That Will Inspire You to Move (2019)
• The 25 Best Running Movies Ever Made (2019)

 Anyway... here is an attempt at listing all the movies we've watched. I'm sure I've forgotten some, and maybe even added one or two we haven't actually watched but I thought we did. So, here goes...

FAVORITES THIS YEAR:

• The Human Race
• Marathon Men
• 100 Miles to 40
• Found on 49
• Rx Run
• From Fat to Finish
• The Why: Running 100 Miles
• Run Free: The True Story of Caballo Blanco

FAVORITES FROM LAST YEAR (AND BEYOND):

• The Barkley Marathons (2014)
• Spirit of the Marathon I (2007)
• Spirit of the Marathon II (2013)
• Boston: the Documentary (2017)
• Karl Metzler: Made to Be Broken (2017)
• Free To Run (2016)
• Desert Runners (2013)
• Gun Runners (2015)

OTHERS THAT WERE GOOD (BUT I CAN'T REMEMBER HOW GOOD):

• Run for Your Life (2008)
• The Long Green Line (2008)
• The Jericho Mile (1979)
• Without Limits (1998)
• Showing Up (2016)
• Six Million Steps (?)
• Mile... Mile and A Half
• Prefontaine
• Chariots of Fire (1981)

 WANT TO SEE (OR CAN'T REMEMBER WE'VE SEEN):

• Transcend (Youtube)
• Breaking 2 (Youtube) [seen]
• The Mountain Runners (2012)
• Where Dreams Go To Die (2017)
• Running on The Sun: The Badwater 135 (may have seen)
• Unbreakable: The Western States 100 (may have seen)
• Ultra Marathon Man: Dean Karnazes (may have seen)
• Life In A Day: The Western States 100 Mile Endurance Run (may have seen)
• Fifty: The Movie (2016) (Youtube) (may have seen)

Hopefully I can update this from time to time, or at least reference and add to it. We will see...