The Lost Art of Running: A Journey to Rediscover the Forgotten Essence of Human Movement

The wheels are going to fall off, it’s often about whose fall off last!’

how we stand when we make a cup of tea is how we run.

the ability to optimise this system was something that most of us had either lost or simply never found. How we lived our lives was having a defining impact on how we moved and, as we had become more and more sedentary, our elastic system had responded by adopting our bad habits.

If you run, you already understand what it’s like to crave that feeling over and over again. To want to get back in touch with that version of yourself. The one you relate to more than any other.

If you run, you already have a deeper connection with yourself – a deeper connection with the world – than those who don’t. You have already experienced moments of utter childish, joy-evoking freedom, moving forwards powered only by the gifts that nature has given you. In those moments, you have been stripped back. Away from a constant connection t

tackle those hills of outrageous fortune.

Concentrating on something so intensely increases our perception of effort.

His experience in the army had also taught him that if you make a body that is conditioned to perform, you can transfer that performance into any scenario,

Headley Court (a rehabilitation centre for injured members of the British Armed Forces)