Running for 2,800 Days Straight with Hellah Sidibe

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🗓️ 7 January 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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In May of 2017, Hellah Sidibe set a goal for himself: to run for 10 minutes a day for two weeks. Little did he know that once he started, he wouldn't want to stop. Hellah has run every single day for the last seven and a half years.

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0:00.0	In May of 2017, Hela Sadeve set a goal for himself.
0:07.0	To run for 10 minutes a day for two weeks.
0:10.0	Little did he know that once he started, he wouldn't want to stop.
0:14.0	Hella has run every single day for the last seven and a half years.
0:18.0	He's even known online as the running street guy.
0:22.2	Over time, Hela's daily two-mile run turned into 50 miles a week, which eventually turned
0:27.6	into a 3,000 mile run across the country. And you know what? Once he finished the journey from
0:33.4	California back to New York, he woke up the next day and he went on another run.
0:38.8	I'm Shelby Stanger, and this is Wild Ideas Worth Living,
0:42.5	an REI Co-op Studios production presented by Capital One
0:46.3	and the REI Co-op MasterCard.
0:51.0	Before it became part of his daily routine,
0:53.6	Hella felt very differently about running.
0:56.1	He grew up in Mali, Africa, where he played a lot of soccer.
1:00.5	Eventually, he was recruited to play at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
1:05.3	Hella never could have dreamed that soccer would lead him to become a sponsored runner.
1:10.1	In college, his coach made the team run a lot,
1:13.0	and Hela hated it. At the University of Massachusetts, my lay coach made rest and peace, Sam Cooke,
1:19.7	used to love having us run. He would tell us, you might not be the most talented team in the
1:25.2	country, you will be for sure the fittest team in the country. So means that we ran like it was their job which it kind of was because playing soccer
1:32.3	is part of that's part of the game and to a point that the UMass track team would say are you guys
1:38.0	are the UMass soccer team or track team we always see you using our track and his mindset was if
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