The documentary, "We ARE Distance Runners: Untold Stories of African American Athletes", which features Dick Gregory, is now available on Vimeo

This documentary is the winner of nineteen film festival awards in the US, Canada, Sweden, and India for Best Documentary, Best Director, Best Sports Film, Most Inspirational, Best Human Interest, Best Biographical, and other categories.

DALLAS - Nov. 12, 2024 - PRLog -- We ARE Distance Runners: Untold Stories of African American Athletes is now available on Vimeo after winning nineteen film festival awards around the world. It dispels the myth that African Americans are sprinters, not distance runners, by profiling six National Black Distance Running Hall of Fame inductees, who overcame childhood challenges to become national and world recordholders, world history makers, and community activist in the running community. Their influence and efforts started the ethnic minority running boom in the US. The interviewees are

• Dick Gregory
• Dr. Ronald Gregory
• Anthony (Tony) Renard Reed
• Shalisa (Lisa) Davis
• Alphonzo Jackson
• Lisa Felder

• Being so sickly as a child, your doctors predicted you may not live past twenty years old. You defied the odds and ran a 5K in 16:29 and half marathon in 1:15:29 at 50 years old.
• Being a 238-pound divorced mother. Your son's soccer coach encourages you to walk around the playing field to keep warm while they practice. You walked out of your comfort zone that day, finished over 450 marathons and ultras, and even recovered from cancer.
• Not having hot water at home. Thus, you ran high school cross-country and track so you could take hot showers after practice. Later, you're joined by Muhammad Ali as you run 3,500 miles from LA to NYC.
• Being so fast in high school that your coach stopped training you to win races. Instead, he trained you to set national high school one- and two-mile records.
• Not being fast enough to win a high school race. Thirty years later, you set a world marathon record for women.
• Being told that you didn't look like a distance runner at your first marathon. Eighteen months later, you win first place in a marathon's under thirty age group. Twenty-five years later, you make world marathon history.