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Weight For It

Running While Fat

Weight For It

ohitsBigRon Studios

Society & Culture, Documentary

4.9987 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In a conversation with fat marathon runner Martinus Evans, host Ronald Young Jr discusses how running can be exclusionary for fat folks and ways that Martinus overcame that.

Special thanks to Martinus Evans for being a part of this episode.  You can find out more about his work by clicking this link or following him on IG @martinusevans

If you have a story about weight you’d like to share with us, send us an email at weight@ohitsbigron.com

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Credits

Creator/Host - Ronald Young Jr.

Story Editor - Sarah Dealy

Additional Editing - JC Howard

Sound Design and Mixing - The Reverend John Delore of Starlight Diner

Show Art - Heather Wilder

Episode Art - Andy J Pizza

Theme music - Jey Red

Additional music - Mass Potential, The Artist DT, the mysterious Breakmaster Cylinder

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Wait for It is a show about the way we feel about our bodies.

0:04.4

Consequently, each episode may include references to gaining and losing weight, eating disorders,

0:09.1

weight loss surgery, and weight stigma.

0:11.3

If these topics are triggering to you, please take care while listening.

0:15.2

We have links to support resources for anyone who may need them in our show notes.

0:25.9

Wait for it. for anyone who may need them in our show notes. Let's go back to 2012.

0:29.4

I was like 25 years old.

0:32.0

I was working in a convention sales job at men's warehouse.

0:35.4

So I was a suit salesman.

0:36.8

So I was on my feet, eight to ten hours a day ten hours a day and a suit and hard bottom dress shoes,

0:42.3

which is by far like the worst thing you can ever be in on your feet for eight to ten hours a day.

0:49.3

So I developed some hip pain.

0:52.3

I developed some hip pain.

0:53.3

I developed some hip pain. I developed some hip pain. I developed some hip pain.

0:56.9

That is the voice of Martinez Evans.

0:59.9

He's a motivational speaker, an author, and a runner.

1:04.1

However, before he was any of that, he was a suit salesman in pain, looking for answers.

1:09.6

I went to go see a doctor.

1:12.8

Didn't just go see like a regular doctor.

1:14.5

We didn't go see like an orthopedic specialist.

1:16.0

So like this doctor wasn't a doctor that I knew or I met or one of my traditional doctors.

1:23.0

He was just a doctor that I seen from a list of doctors on their insurance list.

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