Nicole Tini, thanks for being here today. You're a documentary filmmaker, you have a production company,

Tini Motion Pictures, love that name, and I've recently partnered with

a host to star in a podcast that deals with among other things.

The idea of extreme endurance racing.

Where does your relationship with running start?

I started running as a little kiddo.

I wanted to be on a sports team because a lot of my friends were like on basketball, soccer, and I was not good at any of those

sports. I was very, very clumsy, always running into things and I still am.

But running was a sport that I could do and that I was good at and that made me feel at home in my body.

Right, running.

What it means to you, both spiritually and physically is a huge part of your 30 for 30.

As I ran, my lungs tingled, heart surged,

and my heightened senses reminded me that I was alive.

No matter what was going on in my life,

running put my body in poetry with my mind.

When I do long distance running, I don't listen to music usually.

Sometimes I call friends and family, but oftentimes I'm just listening to my breath and feeling the ground beneath me.

But how did you go from running to racing, Nicole.

I got into racing, like many people, after a breakup, that was around 10 years ago that I really started to get addicted to racing and yeah I haven't

stopped since. I just wanted to run more and more. My first big race was a half

marathon and so after I did a half marathon as an adult, I was like,

okay, maybe I'm ready to take a bite off the big one, the marathon.

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