Mitch Ammons spent a decade in the throes of drug addiction. When he finally got clean, he could barely jog a half mile. Then he qualified 2024 Olympic Marathon Trials.
A long time ago—before he’d freebased opioids or robbed his best friend or checked himself into rehab for the sixth time—Mitch Ammons had dreams of a future involving running.Ammons can only shrug when asked to pinpoint the lowest point in a life filled with them. He spent a decade careening along the rock bottom, mired in what he now calls “the worst possible self-hate.” Mitch Ammons knows his story could have ended like the stories of so many buddies from his darkest years—with an obituary.
Bryan Morton met Ammons in his early days of running and was struck by his charisma, his self-deprecating sense of humor, and how “completely raw” he was as a runner. Morton, who trains with Ammons now, recalls that Mitch looked like a hippie and wore a T-shirt on the most sweltering Texas summer runs. Nonetheless, he started going out with faster groups and hanging on as long as he could. On a whim, Morton invited Ammons to join a stacked Austin squad for the 2018 Hood to Coast relay in Oregon.
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