THE RUNNER (IL CORRIDORE)

Love, pain, revenge. The true story of a worker who became the Ultra Trail World Champion at 58 years old.

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Duration: 52'
Director: Paolo Casalis & Stefano Scarafia
Tag: Bio, Sport, Running
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
Produced by: BODA'
Distributed by: Produzioni Fuorifuoco

Marco Olmo is a living legend of extreme running. He became late, when the others started to stop.
In his “previous lives”, as he says, he has been a farmer, a truck driver, a workman.
Running has became his reason for living, the way to take revenge on his hard destiny.
At the age of 58 he has became Ultratrail World Champion, winning the Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc, the hardest and most important endurance race in the world, over twenty hours of uninterrupted running, 167 km (over 100 miles) around the tallest mountain in Europe.
An almost unimaginable speciality, where mental and physical training and personal motivations are fundamental.
Despite age, physical problems and always younger and more prepared opponents, he doesn’t want to stop.
For one year he prepares for the new edition of the Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc.
This competirtion, which for two consecutive times has consecreted him as the champion, could become the last of his career. Marco must win, to show himself that he can still do it.
This is his story.

Film Review from "Runningmovies.com"

Meet Italian Marco Olmo, Ultra runner and defending champion as he spends a year training for what may be his final race, Ultra Trail du Mont-Blanc. Starting his running at age 27, he is now more than double that age and still bringing home more hardware on each outing. By day he works as a driver in a quarry, and other times he can be found in the remote areas around his town putting in the miles. His wife, Renata, is his support team and sounding board. She appears to be the one who knows Marco the best, if anyone can say that they know him at all. There is a short (85K) tune up race, the Cro-Magnon(6 time previous winner), before the final preparations for the 167K climax run. Watch this wonderful documentary to get a taste of elite trail running, from the community to the psychology of the event.Captions are provided in Italian, English, French, or Spanish, yet at times you must read quite fast to keep up with the story. If you have never heard of Marco Olmo, do yourself a favor and watch this movie, and afterwards you will ask yourself how you were unaware of one of this running legend who people have called Desert Fox, Extraterrestrial, Superman, Camel, and "The man who has stopped time"