Running for Good: The Fiona Oakes Documentary

This is the kind of thing that you watch and cannot stop thinking about for days afterwards. I was in tears that night after watching, just in complete awe of this incredible woman and her selfless work. Seriously touching and beautifully shot. 10/10.

She is incredible. I loved this documentary it is so inspiring. She makes me laugh also.

No pun intended - maybe I should not compare them - and I actually don't. This is a documentary, but the title made me think of the Tom Hanks movie. So not the documentary or the character itself (or real person in this case).

Human beings can be incredible. We have and do witness the worst in some (ethically and otherwise speaking), but when it comes to those who did not get the best opportunities ... who had injuries, set backs, illnesses ... how do you work around that and how strong is your mind? They say mind over matter - or body in this case.

And you can take that to the bank ... and run with it, if you'll excuse another pun. This really is heartfelt - if you like stories like that ... if you have a place for real stories of incredible human beings (especially those who overcome .. so much) ... well you are about to watch the right movie for you.

What an amazing, inspiring and remarkable woman. It's hard to believe the achievements Fiona Oakes has accomplished with very little publicity made about them. She should be respected and recognised for each and every one of her records as well as the unbelievable amount of time, work and dedication she shows to animals. I can't recommend this documentary enough and am in awe of this lady. Wow!

Since becoming vegan, I've had to avoid most vegan documentaries. It's as much as I can stand to read books like "Introduction to Animal Rights" by Gary L. Francione or "This is Vegan Propaganda" by Ed Winters, with written descriptions and still photographs of the living hell humanity puts trillions of animals through annually. But this is a documentary I can watch. There are no visuals of animals suffering, you don't have to be haunted by their unanswerable cries for help, there aren't even graphic verbal descriptions. But the fight to save them is ever-present. I frequently recall a line Fiona Oakes states in this documentary, talking about how hot it is, running an ultra marathon in the unforgiving desert, but how it's nothing compared to the suffering of animals being transported for slaughter, crammed together in the deadly heat, sometimes for days, with no water. If you want to see what a vegan lifestyle can do for you as an athlete and for quality longevity, if you want to be inspired by the story of someone who comes back from a diagnosis of 'you'll be lucky to walk again' to claim multiple world records in running, if you want to see what finishing the epic Marathon des Sables takes, or if you want to see what makes an animal activist tick, watch Running for Good!