In marathon running, you take the highs with the lows. Running and lifestyle content creator Eric Tai ’s most recent low was a broken foot he suffered in a marathon earlier this year in London, when he collided with another runner at mile 12. Tai heard the “crunch” and felt the pain immediately, but he fought through it for the next 14-plus miles to finish the race in a respectable 2:54:17, considering he was running on a broken fifth metatarsal.

The following months got even lower for Tai as he grappled with “an injury that took running away from me and a recovery I wasn’t sure I’d make it through.” But through patience and determination, make it through is exactly what he did, and now he’s only days away from experiencing another high: his hometown marathon where the city comes alive.

Teaming up with Brooks and Runner’s World, Tai laces up the Brooks Hyperion Elite 6 in the above video to bring you on a pre-race taper run through New York—where he first fell in love with running years ago.…