
2025
Run. Floss. Pray.
In 1980 Jay Helgerson shocked the world, becoming the first person to run a marathon a week for a year – each race completed in under three hours. For the last ten years, his daughter, filmmaker Alexandra Helgerson, followed him with a camera in order to understand the eccentric man who raised her. What she gets are his projected anxieties, his struggles with physical age and emotional distress, all while he endlessly trains for the Boston Marathon. But as Jay trains, the film is nearly derailed by Alexandra’s encounter with a life threatening illness. Ultimately, AGE GROUP WINNER is an affirmation of the will to live.

Alexandra Helgerson
herself

Jay Helgerson
himself

Project Iceman

The Source

RUNN

Sahara Marathon

The Track Movie

Rodman: For Better or Worse

Marathon

Life in 24 Hours

Breaking2

Zátopek

Like an Arrow

Simply Metric

Big Pink Dress

Breaking 7

Brian Reynolds: The Leadville Trail 100

Boston

Running home

Inside the Hunt for the Boston Bombers

Lorena: Light-Footed Woman

El Ouafi Boughera, The marathon runner of history