This is in conversation from Apple News.
I'm Shemitah Basu.
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 gonna 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 this stomach as a pregnant woman.
You need to start walking, go buy walking shoes.
And I was like, skip all that.
I'm going to go run a marathon.