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Product of the week ... ATHLETES looking to gain an insight into what it takes to become a top-class runner should check out a new film that follows a group of contenders in the run-up to the 2007 US Cross-Country Championships.
This documentary movie – “Showdown” –
features in-depth interviews with elite American athletes Dathan
Ritzenhein, Meb Keflezighi, Alan Culpepper, Jorge Torres and Abdi
Abdirahman in the months preceding the national championships, which
was In addition to scenes that show the athletes training and racing at venues such as Arizona, California, Colorado and Texas, there is also footage from British events such as the Great Edinburgh Cross Country and BUPA Great North Run. In all, for distance running fanatics this 72-minute film paints an interesting picture of these athletes’ lives. The downsides are limited in what is generally an excellent production, but some of the subtitled credits are often inaccurate and it also seems a strange decision to follow the lives of all the main contenders apart from Adam Goucher, who was sixth in the 4km race at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships in 2006. Other than that, the film delivers a number of insights – such as watching Keflezighi, the Olympic marathon silver medallist in 2004, doing barefoot drills to strengthen his feet in order to avoid injury.
There is also the inspirational sight of
Ritzenhein going for a 16-mile run in deep snow. This is preceded by
a quote that ►SEE www.showdownrace.com
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