Running On Empty Part III: Playing the Race Card

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Part 3 of 3- Higher quality download of the full show: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GCYGZKX6

A mid-twenties crisis leads to an attempt to run a half-marathon, not even a proper marathon. These videos chart the hopes, dreams and inevitable disappointments of that attempt; a 'plodumentary', if you will (har de har). An exploration of inadequacy, a study in mediocrity. Not even a proper marathon.


Credits:
Written and Produced by Carl Cullinane (me)
with additional material from Paul McCourt.
Photographs by Ross Cullinane, Krusty Clown, Sarah Bragg, Donna Foster, Mark Cullinane, Lorcan Fox, Thomas Hogan and myself.

Music: "Parade" by Carl Cullinane.
"Ok" by Jon Brion, from the Synecdoche, New York Soundtrack.
"Ashley" by Yo La Tengo, from They Shoot, We Score.


Many thanks also to Doug Sklenki for advice and help. http:///www.youtube.com/dougsklenki

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• running
• on
• empty
• athletics
• marathon
• half-marathon
• connemara
• connemarathon
• stories
• like
• hearts
• swelling
• mediocrity
• disappointment
• despair
• synecdoche
• rudyard
• kipling
• if
• race
• climax
• failure
• buitoni
• pasta

[cooge705]

Loved this, and to make you feel good about yourself, I ran my half-marathon in New Zealand in 2008, was two minutes slower than you, vomited after the mountain climb, and couldn't walk properly for a week after. the only perk was that while training I was lapped twice buy an All Black around Cromwell Park one afternoon, but it just made me feel slow. and running is all that you mentioned at the end, that's why I switched to volleyball.

[higg08]

enjoyed that! fair play

[SayingNo]

I like your penchant for international football shirts - France and Argentina I see and you even ran the race in the latter. Well done and I hope you keep running!

[alzaman]

Haha. Great stuff!