Thoughts on Netflix Running Movie

Main character reminded me of Pre just with a depression disorder

That kind of progression resembles how Jim Ryun got really good really fast. Crazy speed workouts too, although less mileage. When you have a once in a lifetime talent it's not impossible. But for the average runner its not the most realistic expectation for 99.999% of the population.

Hulu Person wrote:

Main character reminded me of Pre just with a depression disorder

Sounds more like Gerry Lindgren...

But with less mileage.

Right. Unless I'm mistaken, Lingren ran almost 200 mpw while he was still in high school. (Course, that could be an indicator of why he ended up burning out a bit) but all in all i'd say the movie doesn't sound so unbelievable. I'll have to watch it then come back.

I think the movie was based on "life at these speeds" the book. /there was a reference to it in the movie.

Good overall.

Phresh wrote:

Right. Unless I'm mistaken, Lingren ran almost 200 mpw while he was still in high school. (Course, that could be an indicator of why he ended up burning out a bit) but all in all i'd say the movie doesn't sound so unbelievable. I'll have to watch it then come back.

I don't know. I have a lot of respect for "jerry the jogger" on here but he has had a lot of unfounded stories.

Maybe? wrote:

Phresh wrote:

Right. Unless I'm mistaken, Lingren ran almost 200 mpw while he was still in high school. (Course, that could be an indicator of why he ended up burning out a bit) but all in all i'd say the movie doesn't sound so unbelievable. I'll have to watch it then come back.

I don't know. I have a lot of respect for "jerry the jogger" on here but he has had a lot of unfounded stories.

In his own words....

RT: So how many miles per week were you running?

GL: “We never counted miles back then and never did have any idea until Ron Clarke was writing his book. After I met him in San Francisco, he asked me how many miles a day I was running. And it was such an unusual question because I had never thought about that. I tried to add up miles and at some point I got to about 40 miles per day on some days and he said, ‘No, that’s not right, that’s way too many.’ So he went to my coach and asked the same question and, of course, he didn’t know either. I was doing the morning and nighttime workouts on my own. Nobody really knew about them. During that stretch, he figured I was doing all of these extra workouts, so he tried to count them out, too. And he got the same numbers 40 miles per day, too Clarke said that’s impossible, so he wrote 25-35 miles a day in his book.”

After seeing this thread I looked for a few online reviews and then went home last night to watch "1 Mile to You." The reviews lowered my expectations. The movie is not a Hollywood blockbuster with the accompanying Hollywood budget, but once you get beyond that I think the movie is solid. Most of the critical complaints were that the competing interests of the movie are a bit jumbled, but I think that is the whole point. The protagonist's life is a wreck. He's a high school kid trying to make sense of tragedy and life at the same time. In the real world nobody has a total grip on academics, parents, coaches, girlfriends, running, antagonists, and every competing interest. Only in Hollywood would they expect this to wrap up so nicely, so good for this movie just letting the kid's life be kind of a mess and showing him that way. I'd rather see a movie like this with slightly less production quality and a complicated story than all the Hollywood movies with perfect production quality and a story nobody in the real world cares about.

A runner will find a million things to nitpick about the running side of it, but I can forgive it. There is still a great deal of the protagonist running without making the detail of the sport bog the movie down.

He's a high schooler so the movie is obviously about the high school running experience, but to me it's almost too raw to want to show to a high school kid.