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Run Mama Run
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Run Mama Run

31 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]

Sarah Michelle Bowman Brown spent four years training for the 2012 Olympic trials, only to be sidelined by an injury just short of making the team. The film follows what happens after that kind of setback: the decision to keep training, the demands of balancing competitive running with motherhood, and the slow rebuilding of a body and a goal that had already cost her everything once. Interviews and training footage track her routine, from early morning miles to the races that mark her comeback, as she works toward another shot at the trials. The film stays close to the daily grind rather than the highlight reel, showing the repetitive, unglamorous work of distance running alongside the logistics of raising a family on an athlete's schedule. It is a small-scale portrait of a single athlete's persistence rather than a broad survey of the sport, built around the question of whether she can get back to the level she reached before the injury derailed her.