Spirit of the Marathon
If you didn’t get a chance to see Spirit of the Marathon this past Thursday, I highly recommend you catch the encore February 21. It played on two screens at our theater — each with at least 450 seats, I would guess — and both were sold out. It was the fittest crowd of movie goers I have ever seen! My darling and I were totally dorky and wore out Goofy shirts (we saw another Goofy runner showing her friends her three medals).
As many reviewers have stated, I would have loved to see more of the elites — Deena Kastor and Daniel Njenga (particularly Daniel in his home country of Kenya) — but of course I could relate more to the “amateurs.” This clearly is a movie for runners, as I’m sure many of the running in-jokes would be lost on non-runners. (I love when Jerry states he runs marathons for the t-shirts and that the only time he gets a “runner’s high” is when he stops running). Of course the entire theater cracked up at the “You’re all crazy” sign one of the spectators was holding up.
(And just to ensure my spot in the Hall of Running Geekiness, I’m currently downloading the soundtrack). 🙂
January 27th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
i went to the theater & it was sold out! i will be sure to buy advance tix for the february showing!
January 28th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
I loved it, too.
January 28th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
I’d really like to see this movie. Unfortunately, I’ll probably have to wait for the DVD.
January 28th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
We had the same experience – like everyone in there was in on the same jokes 🙂 Additionally, being from Chicago there were a few other comments that werent supposed to be funny that had the crowd was grumbling over. There were comments related to the fact that people thought they were prepared for anything … unless some freakly act of nature happened, which they didnt expect. Two years later – boom! Everyone should totally see this movie, its great!
January 29th, 2008 at 11:05 am
It was great, wasn’t it? I liked the comment about how the Chicago marathon is usually pretty cold. oops. I just kept thinking, at least this movie didn’t end at the 2007 marathon and see most of the hopes dashed in the heat.
January 29th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
I’ll have to see it in february-couldn’t make this past showing-but if you consider yourself a geek then I am too! God bless all the geeky runners-woo hoo! Running rocks!