O'Connor and Caille go through the new experience of the long training sessions necessary for a marathoner. He is clearly upset by this, and takes out his frustration by going for a long bike ride. While preparing for the race, Bradley suffers a knee injury and is unable to compete. Leah Caille is a new runner that took up the sport to help recover from an emotional divorce. Jerry Meyers is a jovial 70-year-old who claims to run marathons for the T-shirt. She finds it humorous when colleagues ask if she expects to win. Ryan Bradley and Lori O'Connor are both married young professionals Bradley is a veteran marathoner who hopes to earn a qualifying time for the Boston Marathon, and O'Connor is running her first marathon. The rest of the runners featured live in Chicago. Kastor is shown training and recovering from an injury in Mammoth Lakes, California, while Njenga's life as a sponsored runner in Tokyo is profiled. Njenga had finished second multiple times in previous Chicago Marathons. Kastor was the bronze medalist at the 2004 Olympic Marathon, but has yet to win a marathon. American Deena Kastor and Kenyan Daniel Njenga are both elite runners, and are determined to win the race. The focus is then on the six featured runners and their training for the 2005 Chicago Marathon. Notable marathoners such as Frank Shorter, Dick Beardsley, Alberto Salazar, Grete Waitz, Paula Radcliffe, Joan Benoit-Samuelson, and Kathrine Switzer provide commentary about the sport. In the beginning of the film, a brief overview of the history of the marathon is shown, with footage of dramatic races involving Dorando Pietri, Abebe Bikila and Rod Dixon.
It was screened at the Chicago International Film Festival on Octoand received a limited release in the United States on January 24, 2008. The film chronicles the journey six marathon runners experience while training and competing in the 2005 Chicago Marathon. Spirit of the Marathon is a 2007 documentary film directed by Jon Dunham.
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