Running is everything. It's how I feed my family. It's how I release stress. It's how I travel to world

It's the game changer that took a boy from the Ravendale

East side of Detroit who had two brothers past lived next to a crack house

go to school

Blankow all of those hardships that I had grown up

Made it worth it and like running took me to London one time

I wouldn't been able to do that if I didn't get into the sport of running and there's so many instances in my life

whether it's running and London to try to get trickle-pudding or like running on root one on the Big Sur marathon and

Like seeing root one in a way on foot that nobody else would see if they were drive there

Like running is everything to me

So have you ever wondered how some people just seem to have this ability to turn obstacles and insults even

Into inspiration and just tremendous tremendous outcomes in life

How they can transform struggle into meaning and purpose well today

We will discover just how one person did that through what was for him and the many doubters around him and

extraordinarily unlikely path martina sevens grew up on the tough east side of Detroit his childhood was marked by a lot of loss

Exposure to drugs and lack of stability and the only hope that he found when he was younger came in the form of football in many ways

It saved him until an injury took it all away and simultaneously sent him into a life that was very different and also

Largely sedentary after being an athlete for so many years and that began to affect his health out of school

Standing for long hours in a job martina was in pain and he went to a doctor to get treatment for that pain

But instead of responding with kindness and understanding the doc looked him in the eye and told him

He was fat and he was going to die upset

Martinez responded with a threat that turned into a challenge that became a promise that would eventually profoundly change not only his life

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