How the San Quentin Marathon Changes Lives, One Lap at a Time

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🗓️ 20 September 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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It’s hard enough to train for a marathon. But what if you could only train in a crowded prison yard, with borrowed running shoes, on a small track with potholes and six 90-degree turns? That’s what the members of the San Quentin 1000-Mile Club running group face – on top of the harsh living conditions in California’s oldest prison – as they prepare for their annual marathon. A new documentary, 26.2 to Life, goes inside the prison to tell the story of the San Quentin Marathon, its participants, and why they run. We talk with the film’s director as well as the club’s running coach, and one of its former members. Guests: Christine Yoo, director, the new documentary "26.2 to Life" - Opens Fri (September 22) at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco, the Smith Rafael Film Center in San Rafael, Rialto Cinemas Elmwood in Berkeley and Rialto Cinemas Sebastapol Markelle Taylor, former member, San Quentin 1000-Mile Club Frank Ruona, coach, San Quentin 1000-Mile Club Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:50.4	The American prison system is huge and brutal.
0:54.0	Racial violence is commonplace, mental illness is rampant, and yet some people find their
0:59.3	way to a new understanding of their lives and themselves.
1:03.5	In the new documentary 26.2 to life, we meet three men who committed violent crimes, and
1:08.6	then over many years got their lives moving back in the right direction.
1:12.5	For each, a track club inside the walls of San Quentin has proven instrumental to their mental, emotional, and physical transformations.
1:21.5	We'll talk about the film and what it's like to run a marathon inside the walls of a prison.
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1:29.2	Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. The new documentary, 26.2 to Life, tells the story of the
1:46.0	Thousand Mile Club, a running program that takes place in the yard at San Quentin. Using rare
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