Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The Marathon, artist - Akira the Don. Date of issue: 31.10.2019
Song language: English
The Marathon |
| The first ultra-marathon wasn’t smart at all |
| At all |
| I was at military freefall school with Morgan Luttrell |
| Marcus Luttrell was in a bad ops |
| It went bad |
| He was the only Navy Seal that lived |
| Morgan is Marcus Luttrell’s twin brother |
| And I was there with Marcus so |
| What happened was myself and Morgan were in freefall school |
| At the same exact time as Marcus was in the worst incident in Seal history |
| Long story short Marcus is alive and I go on to wanna raise money for families |
| All these guys died, they all had kids I wanna raise money for the Special |
| Operations Warrior Foundation |
| So I said you know what? |
| I have to Google something that’s evil |
| Something very hard |
| I knew nothing about ultra-marathons |
| I hadn’t even run a marathon |
| I knew nothing about this world |
| So, I googled the top 10 hardest races in the world |
| And what comes up is Badwater 135 |
| 135-mile race through Death Valley in the summertime |
| I thought it was a stage race |
| I thought it was a race where you run like 20 miles |
| Set up camp, barbecue outside and then go run some more the next day |
| So, I call the race director up at the race and said |
| «Hey, Chris I want to do your race.» |
| So, we had a long conversation you know |
| I was much heavier then |
| I’m around between 240−270 |
| I was a heavy guy |
| But the long and short of it all was |
| I hadn’t put running shoes on in over a year |
| So, I call Chris Coster up on a Wednesday he says |
| «Look man the only way you can qualify for my race is if you run 100 miles at |
| one time in 24 hours or less.» |
| There happen to be a race that Saturday and he said |
| «If you qualify by running 100 miles or less in 24 hours, I will consider you |
| in my race.» |
| I signed up for this race, it was called «The San Diego One Day» |
| Where you run around a one-mile track for 24 hours to see how many miles you |
| can get |
| My goal was 100 miles |
| When I got to mile 70 |
| I cleared 70 miles in like 12−13 hours pretty quickly |
| I was done |
| My feet were broken |
| I was stress fractured, shin splints, muscles were tearing |
| I was in bad shape |
| No water |
| Didn’t know what the hell I was doing out there |
| Had on some tube socks |
| It was just ridiculous |
| It was a clown show |
| So, I sat down at mile 70 and at this time I was married |
| I look at my wife and I was like |
| «I messed up bad.» |
| I literally start to turn white |
| And when a black guy turns white, you’re pretty fucked up |
| Here I am |
| I am all fucked up in this chair |
| I’m at mile 70 thinking I got 30 fucking miles to go |
| I’m jacked up |
| I got go to the bathroom and the bathroom’s like 20 feet from me |
| It’s a porta-potty |
| I can’t get out of the fucking chair |
| I’m peeing blood down my leg, pooping up my fucking back |
| And I got 30 miles to go |
| I can’t stand up, my blood pressures all messed up |
| I’ve been in three Hell weeks, Ranger school, overcome so many obstacles in my |
| life |
| This last 30 miles of this race is when I realized |
| A human being |
| Is not so human anymore |
| We have the ability to go in such a space if you’re willing to suffer |
| And I mean suffer |
| Your brain and your body once connected together |
| Can do anything |
| Anything |
| Your brain and your body once connected together |
| Can do anything |
| Anything |
| And this 30 miles was the life-changing moment |
| I was out of it |
| I was in the worst pain in my entire life |
| I was to me on the brink of death |
| And I was able to chunk this 30 damn miles |
| Into small pieces |
| I was so driven |
| I’m not gonna say motivated because motivations crap |
| Motivation comes and goes |
| When you’re driven |
| Whatever’s in front of you will get destroyed |
| So, I sat in this chair and I was so driven to succeed and at this time |
| everyone’s «Were you thinking about the guys that died?» |
| And I’m not going to lie to you, I wasn’t |
| This became a personal thing |
| This became me against this race, me against the kids that called me nigga, |
| me against me |
| It just became something that I took so |
| So violently personal and I broke this thing down into small pieces |
| I said okay I got to get nutrition, I gotta be able to stand up |
| Before I can get off this curve and get off this chair and be able to go 30 |
| miles |
| So, I went through all these small steps and I was able to stand up and then |
| from standing up |
| I was literally walking around with my wife at the time and she goes |
| «You're not gonna make the time. |
| You’re walking like 30-something minutes a |
| mile.» |
| I got my 81 and the second she said that I’m not going to make the time |
| I ran the last 19 miles non-stop |
| I had to get compression tape |
| And I taped up my ankles |
| And I taped up my feet |
| And that’s how I got through that race |
| Your brain and your body once connected together |
| Can do anything |
| Your brain and your body once connected together |
| Can do anything |
| Your brain and your body once connected together |
| Can do anything |
| Your brain and your body once connected together |
| Can do anything |
| Your brain and your body once connected together |
| Can do anything |
| Anything |
| Anything |
| And people may listen to this and say |
| «This guy is sadistic, he is crazy, he is-» |
| No, if you know how I came up |
| You realize |
| I was just… a scared kid |