Mile at the mile this bus would come alongside of me and be like hey big man you want a ride to the finish line and at first I thought it was you know just a nice thing. So I'm like, no I'm good, but mile at the mile, mile 20 he came, mile 21 he came. Hey big man, you want to ride to the finish line.

You want to ride to the finish line. And one of the things I started to notice was he wasn't stopping by everybody else.

Like he wasn't pulling along everybody else that was in front of me.

He would just stop at me and be like, hey man, get on this bus.

So I continue to run and I get around mile 23.

And like, I'm struggling.

I'm struggling to stay on my feet.

I'm moving at a slower pace. The voices are getting to me. I got this little

angel and devil on my shoulders, you know, I call it my heart and my head. You know, my head is like,

yo, the pain will go away. You just get your big ass on this bus and my heart is like no like you got to keep

going you want to be able to get the race medal and call yourself a marathon or so like

I'm battling with that and then you got this outside experience of hey big man like come get on the bus

so all of this comes ahead to about mile 25 less than a mile away from the finish line and And then he comes again and he's like,

come on man, get on this bus. And I'm like, yo, why are you telling me to get on this bus?

I'm less than a mile away. Leave me the fuck alone. And he says something on the lines of, I can't help that you

fat and slow. I'm trying to help your big ass up.

Hello friends and welcome back to the Light Watkins show where I interview ordinary folks just like you and me who've taken extraordinary leaps of faith in the direction of their path, their purpose, or what they've identified with as their mission. and in doing so they've been able to positively impact and inspire the lives of many other people who've either heard about their story or who've witnessed them in action or who've directly benefited from their work.

And this week on this show I'm back in conversation with Slow AF Run Club founder, Martinez Evans.

You may recall from back in episode 90, I had Martinez on to talk about his journey of going

from an overweight couch potato to a marathon runner and how he went to go see his

doctor because he was experiencing hip pain and without doing any kind of

evaluation the doctor told him that his hip was hurting because he was fat and when Martinez told the doctor that he was going to run a marathon

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