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Chuck PT’s Video of the European Track Races You Wish You Ran

By Stephen Kersh

January 29, 2019

Canadian 1,500-meter Olympian Charles Philibert-Thiboutot and director David Findlay released a look into a weekend of Charles’ 2018 European summer racing circuit. ’72 Hours’ was shot on 16mm film and makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside while cramming in three days worth of footage into what is probably an all-out 400-meter sprint for you.

“Last July, I flew to Belgium to follow him and I could barely keep up, not that I was even running,” David Findlay says. “The focus wasn’t so much to capture action on the track but rather the grueling nature of living out of a suitcase – jet lag, homesickness, bad wifi, iffy food, etc. – and then having to step foot on the starting line in peak shape.”

It leaves you without any specific insight into Chuck’s performance, but you don’t care because the visual journey you were just taken on was all time. Nice job, fellas.

Take a look, and read more about the project over here.

Stephen Kersh

Former collegiate runner for University of Portland and Georgetown, currently a professional runner weighing sponsorship offers from no one. Enjoys using the internet to message Scott Olberding and Paul Snyder about bad story ideas. Does not assume he will work at Citius much longer due to the bad story ideas. He once gave a TED Talk titled "Twitter: How We Are All Just Shouting into a Vacuum" to his best friend and his girlfriend on the beaches of Connecticut.