Arthur The King (2024)

Michael Light is a restless soul with the edge of an adrenalin junkie--he was the leader of an Adventure Racing team that had a spectacular failure in it's last outing and while no one watned to sponsor him again, he didn't feel done. Adventure Team Racing is the most extreme, demanding, endurance activity in the world. It makes the Iron Man combination of running, swimming, and biking look like a game of hopscotch. An adventure race can involve running, biking, climbing, kayaking, and any other imaginable strenuous movement forward, over every possible kind of treacherous terrain. Races can last for many days, with only brief permissible stops and time penalties for aids like IV fluids. This is loosely based on the true story of one of these races, with an American team racing through the jungles, mountains, and rivers of the Dominican Republic. Michael has amassed a team and while they were in the midst of the race, surprisingly competative, and they discovered they were being accompanied by a stray dog, and somewhere along the way, that relationship became more important than the race itself, and somehow Michael is able to find deep meaning in something else, something other than the race, and the dog, Arthur, helped him to transition from competitor to life beyond competing.