Nike gives an inspirational shout-out to all the last-place marathoners out there

Let's be honest: Running 26.2 miles is kind of insane. Yet hundreds of thousands of amateur runners sign up for this masochistic test of endurance.

If you are one of these nuts, congratulations! You're in for a world of mental and physical exhaustion. You'll want to stop. You'll want to cry. You'll want to poop or vomit, or both (don't wait on those). You'll want to lie down and never, ever get up again. And yet, if you just put one foot in front of the other, I promise you, you will finish and it will be awesome.

You won't win, that's for sure. You may not even crack the top 10,000. But, as Nike so beautifully puts it (with the help of Aretha Franklin's "Every Little Bit Hurts") in this 1-minute commercial, once you cross that finish line, you are officially a marathon runner. Watch the aptly titled "Last" and go run your heart out. Lauren Hansen

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