1 Mile to You. Graham Rogers ran a 4:35 mile as an HS freshman before he took up soccer and then trained for this lead role. And Billy Crudup is Billy Crudup.
Starring: Billy Crudup, Graham Rogers, Liana Liberato1 Mile to You Official Trailer 1 (2017) - Billy Crudup MovieWhen a teenager (Graham Rogers) loses his on...
I've never seen a running movie where the actor looked like they could actually run. It's like actors pretending to be boxers or to play musical instruments - but even worse.
Billy Crudup, Bruce Dern, Omar Epps, Will Smith all move well
1 Mile to You. Graham Rogers ran a 4:35 mile as an HS freshman before he took up soccer and then trained for this lead role. And Billy Crudup is Billy Crudup.
The book it was based on Life at These Speeds, is great - still worth a read.
Unfortunately the film deviates from the book a lot. I don't remember the running in the film breaking immersion, but everything else about that film does. It took a long time for the film to get made and the guy behind it worked It was supposed to be a passion project too, not a major hollywood film so it was extremely surprising how the director, Leif Tilden, just threw so much of the book out when he wanted badly to make this film. The flop of this film seems to have ended this guys's career as an indie film maker instead of kick started it. I'm hard on this film because its one of my all time favorite running books alongside OAR and ATC, Running with the Buffs, the Perfect Mile, and the Olympian. But, yes the running is pretty good.
The Jericho Mile. The struggles of training alone with only your personal goal as motivation. And of course the governing body screwing it up leaving him still with a goal that he ultimately achieves even though no one knows are cares. Really like track today
I'm also gonna stick up for St. Ralph. In creative writing, they say that one totally unrealistic aspect to your story is fine. It's called a premise. More than that, and you lose your reader. I'm fine setting aside my disbelief that a 13 year old could win the Boston Marathon (even in a decidedly slower era).
The cool thing about the movie, though, is that all of the rest of the training is really accurate. The mileage, the workouts, even the splits are all plausible for someone running a 2:2X marathon.
I was wondering if anybody here has resoled their spikes into flats that could be used on the roads or just worn for regular shoes? Has anybody here put a rubber sole on spikes before? Any insight is appreciated. Thanks.
OK trackhead, I understand that you get eldorets for wholesale so they're cheap,and that you probably race in the spike as well, but tell me the whole reasoning behind grinding the spikeplate off and resoling them at $45 and...
Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. 1962 British film. The protagonist, Tom Courtenay hits the roads every morning while in reform school. Features a five mile cross country race at the end. Probably pretty legit training and racing for the time. Interesting study of a lower-class youth who gets no breaks in life. As I recall, his running was believable.
McFarland. I enjoyed it, can't really remember how accurate the running/racing scenes were.
what was that comedy, not to long ago. Dude runs London marathon. Obviously not great running scenes. I just remember the main character as an out of shape chump and his antagonist being very close to if not on the front of the starting line at London.
And the one with the kid running sub four at the marina, wasn't he running drugs, literally running the drugs, across town, nightly?
The comedy I saw on tv a few months ago(maybe HBO) and totally forgot the name. I think it was a romantic comedy though about a guy trying to win his gf back by running a marathon
That was a really good movie, I saw it when it came out and it was featured in Runners World Magazine. The actor Peter Strauss looked authentic as a middle distance runner and I read that for this role he did extensive training for a significant period of time and even worked himself down to be able to run a 4:30 mile. That movie is my fav running movie, with Chariots of Fire 2nd.
The Jericho Mile. The struggles of training alone with only your personal goal as motivation. And of course the governing body screwing it up leaving him still with a goal that he ultimately achieves even though no one knows are cares. Really like track today
Murph was one of the first to show other how to run on pure hate. Pre might have been his hate teacher, but Murph got it on film.
McFarland, USA was good, except for the obviously fabricated part where the fat kid ran on pure hate and miraculously secured the win for the team.
He was mercilessly picked on, so his hate level was well over 100%. It wasn't as much as him powering up the hills, as it was the other runners being soft on hills.
Most realistic, The Loneliest Runner, an autobiographical movie written by Michael Landon. The kid in the movie is a bedwetter and his mother shames him by hanging the sheet that he peed on outdoors. He runs home from school every day as fast as he can in order to remove the sheet before others see it. From this he gets good at running. When he grows up he's an Olympian, played by Michael Landon. That ending isn't realistic, as Landon wasn't an Olympian, but he actually was quite athletic before he was in TV.
Least realistic, Running, starring Michael Douglas. He's a contender in the Montreal Olympics in 1976 but falls sometime during the race. No one checks on him and he comes to, several hours later and finishes the race by himself. Traffic in the city has resumed but people starting noticing him, know who he is, and cheer like mad for him as he goes to the finish.
I think Landon was a pretty good javelin guy.
Lance Kerwin starred as the young man. Lance was in several shows and then just disappeared at least from starring roles. (Yes I knew the name from memory.)
Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. 1962 British film. The protagonist, Tom Courtenay hits the roads every morning while in reform school. Features a five mile cross country race at the end. Probably pretty legit training and racing for the time. Interesting study of a lower-class youth who gets no breaks in life. As I recall, his running was believable.
That was a really good movie, I saw it when it came out and it was featured in Runners World Magazine. The actor Peter Strauss looked authentic as a middle distance runner and I read that for this role he did extensive training for a significant period of time and even worked himself down to be able to run a 4:30 mile. That movie is my fav running movie, with Chariots of Fire 2nd.
How do we know that Peter Strauss ran a 4:30 mile getting ready to do Jericho mile??
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