{"id":87214,"date":"2023-10-07T01:34:25","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T01:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/explorersweb.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=87214"},"modified":"2023-10-07T22:34:57","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T22:34:57","slug":"weekend-warm-up-limits-distance-running-satire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/explorersweb.com\/weekend-warm-up-limits-distance-running-satire\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Warm-Up: The Dream is Both Dead and Alive in ‘LIMITS’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daniel Winn sits at his modest kitchen table, waiting on word from his agent while playing chess against himself.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a very exciting time,\u201d he says. \u201c[My agent] might actually, at this very moment, be calling brands\u2026seeing who\u2019s kinda interested and who\u2019s not so interested.\u201d<\/p>\n

A collegiate distance runner whose career was once described as \u201cmoderately exceptional\u201d by a local publication, he is now chasing the dream of going pro. Or as narrator Jeff Merrill puts it, \u201cpursuing the five-figure contract of his dreams.\u201d<\/p>\n

Winn reflects. \u201cI don\u2019t have a very good understanding of my value,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

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Welcome to LIMITS<\/em> \u2014 the story of a young track and field athlete resigned to the trenchant career limbo only fringe sports can promise.<\/p>\n

Prepare for sardonic overload. Minutes into the film, I actually felt compelled to Google Winn to make sure he was real; the interviews are perfect.<\/p>\n

If the producers could have seen me do it, they would have cackled with vindication. There are films about athletes where grit and determination are a brave protagonist\u2019s only weapons against an uncaring world<\/a>. This is not one of them.<\/p>\n