I Run While Talking to God

Fauja Singh was the oldest marathon runner the world has ever known.

Born in a small Punjab village in 1911, he farmed the same land for nearly eighty years and never learned to read or write. He lived by four lessons from his father: work hard, be honest, don't lie, don't steal. Then life took his wife and his son. The loss of his son nearly destroyed him.

Running gave him a reason to go on. He ran his first marathon at eighty-nine. He broke world records as the oldest marathon runner alive, and at one hundred he ran a full marathon among five thousand others. In 2012, at one hundred and one, he carried the Olympic torch through London.

He used to say the first twenty miles of a race, you manage on your own. The last six, he talked to God. The film takes its name from him, and gives room to his coach, Harmander Singh, and to the faith that carried them both.

Completed one week before the Oak Creek gurdwara attack, the film is dedicated to the six lives lost there.

Fauja Singh passed away on July 14, 2025, believed to be 114. This film honors his life.