Fort Defiance, Ariz. — With minimal furniture inside his house, Kelly Gneiting uses the open space to complete his "shiko" sumo exercise.
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Fort Defiance, Ariz. — On the Navajo reservation of Fort Defiance, Ariz., Kelly Gneiting embarks on an eight-mile run as he continues to train for the 2011 Los Angeles Marathon. The 2008 LA Marathon was his first race of any kind. With almost no training, he made it through the course -- stopping, sitting, walking for the final half. Still, he finished, about half a day after the first runners were done.
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Fort Defiance, Ariz. — Gneiting does his daily sumo workout. In 2005, three years after his first match, he won a U.S. Sumo Federation national title. He repeated in 2006 and again in 2007.
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Fort Defiance, Ariz. — Exhaustion kicks in. Kelly Gneiting has trained for the marathon with a zeal he didn’t have before, taking only Sundays off.
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Fort Defiance, Ariz. — Gneiting embarks on a run on the Arizona reservation where he lives. He works as a statistician at the Fort Defiance Indian Hospital.
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Fort Defiance, Ariz. — Gneiting says with his marathon goal, he wants his wife and kids to be proud, and he wants his kids to see that being big doesn’t mean dreams have to die.
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Fort Defiance, Ariz. — Gneiting walks home after a workout through the dimly lighted streets of his neighborhood.
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Fort Defiance, Ariz. — Gneiting in his bedroom. He says he hopes his marathon efforts provide inspiration to the world but, more so, to those closest to him, his family.
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Fort Defiance, Ariz. — The sound of the howling wind echos within the empty room as Kelly Gneiting prepares for the work day. With his paycheck going directly back to his family in Idaho, Gneiting puts little emphasis on material things.
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