Marathon runners share their 'why' from @runna

Name: Marathon runners share their 'why' from @runna
Uploaded: 2025-11-03T03:07:11.000Z
Channel: runna
Description: An interviewer on a city street asks various marathon finishers the same question: 'Why did you run today?' The video then cuts to a montage of these runners, who each step up to a microphone to share their diverse and often emotional reasons, ranging from personal challenges and health triumphs to running in memory of loved ones and proving something to themselves.

An interviewer on a city street asks various marathon finishers the same question: 'Why did you run today?' The video then cuts to a montage of these runners, who each step up to a microphone to share their diverse and often emotional reasons, ranging from personal challenges and health triumphs to running in memory of loved ones and proving something to themselves.

Creator: @runna on Instagram

Transcript

I'm really good at making bad decisions. I ran today as a disabled veteran because someone told me I'd never run again. So I wasn't the only one in my family who hasn't run a marathon, and it was the hardest thing ever. It's the race that helped me think that I could actually run a marathon. And so today, what was most important to me was, like, showing slower runners back of the pack that they can do it too. They can run world majors too. Last year, I got open heart surgery, got my second pacem

Topics: Sports/Fitness, Self-Improvement, Lifestyle

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