'We Have to Run — We're in a Hurry': The Midnight Marathon Changing the Lives of Indigenous Youth
(At a jogging pace I generally can cover six miles in an hour.)
Haruki Murakami • What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
if I was going to be in a wheelchair then I’d make the best of it. Having accepted it, I started to consider the alternative. This time, though, I did it in increments without the level of pressure or expectation that I’d had before. I supposed that if I could just stand up then I wouldn’t necessarily have to be confined to a wheelchair. And if I c
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The four runners traded Tarahumara handshakes—that soft caressing of fingertips—
Christopher McDougall • Born to Run
Technically way up on world-record schedule, his goose was already cooked. What the crowd the witnessed was a pure display of heroism. But science teaches us this is useless unless paired with impeccable pacing. Afterwards, Bobridge described it as, ‘The closest you can come to death without dying.’