When Keith Drew decided to run the Boston Marathon, the first thing he had to do was find out when the race was.

It turned out it was only like 10 days from the day I thought of it, so about 10 days to get ready for it.

Keith had never run a marathon, but that was the least of his problems. For starters, he wasn't registered for the event.

He'd never even attempted to run a qualifying race.

In fact, he'd never run any formal race ever.

But Keith never intended to show up in Boston.

That was an impossibility.

Instead, on the same day of the actual race,

he would run his 26.2 miles on a treadmill inside the

Franklin County Jail and Greenfield, Massachusetts, where Keith was an inmate.

When I decided to do the Boston Marathon on the treadmill, there were quite a few different

obstacles.

First of all, I hadn't trained for it.

I was confident that I could do it,

but I wasn't sure how long it would take. Keith's goal was to run the race in less than four hours.

So the first problem was finding a four-hour window throughout the day where we didn't have

programs or classes going on in the jail or where we didn't have

to be locked in ourselves for a headcount.

The original plan was to start running on the morning of April 18th at the same time

the Boston Marathon began.

But unfortunately, due to some other things we had going on in the jail, that wouldn't have

been possible. So I had to actually jail, that wouldn't have been possible.

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