Two hours into his fourth marathon, Timothy Gridley knows his mind is about to start playing tricks on his body.
With a rotating group of friends running parts of the race with him, this his toughest and longest marathon so far.Gridley isn't running for a medal or bragging rights. He's running to help the family of a friend who died unexpectedly. People have pledged donations for every mile he runs. Which is why this time, he's going for an ultra-marathon, 31 miles instead of the traditional 26.2.
What makes Gridley's marathon different than any other, isn't so much why he's running but for whom, and where. , where Gridley is serving 15 years to life for second degree murder. Those 31 miles? He's running them in the prison yard, 106 laps, with both staff and fellow inmates cheering him on. "When I'd see him in the morning, he'd tell me, 'Good morning,' and we might joke about our sports team just like two men talking not an officer, not an inmate just two men who built a relationship," Gridley said."I know his son is a teenager now and I know it must be tough losing his dad," he said.
"I've always been a selfish person and now I feel like I'm doing something selfless helping others," he said. According to Associate Warden Ed Borla, a run like this would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. But since 2019, Salinas, a maximum-security prison, has been trying to insert more humanity into its facility to reduce violence.
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