Evans first embarked on his running journey in 2012 after a conversation with his doctor, who told him to essentially “lose weight or die.” After that, Evans tried to hire a couple of running coaches, but they didn’t want to take him on as a client. “They were like, ‘You need to lose more weight’ or ‘I don’t want to be responsible for you if you get injured,'” Martinus recalls. So he bought a bunch of running books and became a certified run coach. “It wasn’t because I love running and I wanted to train other people. It was like: I need to run and I want to run and no one will help me,” he tells POPSUGAR.
