This is in conversation from Apple News. I'm Shemeetha Bessu. Today, how to learn to love running. Martinez Evans was not a runner the day he decided to train for a marathon.

It was 2012.

He was working over eight hours a day on his feet and he started to feel pain in his hip so he went to go see a doctor.

He looks at me and says, I know why you're in pain. Me? okay, well tell me why I'm in pain.

You ain't put a stethoscope on me,

you ain't touched me, you ain't do anything.

And he was like you're fat,

and you need to lose weight or you're going to die.

Martinez weighed 360 pounds.

He was used to doctors zeroing in on his weight before anything else, but still it made him furious.

And you know he goes on to tell me you know you have But still it made him furious.

And you know he goes on to tell me you know you have the stomach gets a pregnant woman you need to start walking go by walking shoes and I was like skip all that.

I'm going to go run the marathon.

A being sarcastic, but also being facetious.

And he laughed at me and told me that was the most dumbest thing

he has heard in all his years of practice in medicine.

Martinez left that appointment, drove past a running shoes store, and pulled an illegal U-turn

to buy his first pair of training shoes. A little over a year later he ran his first marathon. Not a lot

of people believed in Martinez when he started. Even Race Day staffers assumed he wouldn't

make it to the finish line, but he gradually

built up confidence and even found joy in running. And he thinks you can too, no

matter where you're starting from. Martinez wrote all about this in a book called

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