Sublime

I was fuelled by a kind of ‘feral fortitude’.

and a philosophy of living that he called “Stotan,” which he explained as a combination of Stoic and Spartan. He wrote that an athlete needed “hardness, toughness, and unswerving devotion to an ideal,” but he also needed to embrace “diet, philosophy, cultivation of the intellect, and openness to artistic endeavors.” According to Cerutty, “You only

Anyone who’s done a mass-participation road race will remember a sea of discarded plastic cups, plastic bottles and plastic gel wrappers in our wake, plus all those free (plastic) T-shirts in a drawer unused. The global trainer industry creates as much carbon dioxide and equivalent greenhouse gas emissions (CO2e) as the entire United Kingdom (and,

‘I’ll never be the fastest out there,’ she laughed. ‘But with the techniques I’ve learned to keep me in balance, I aim to be one of the oldest.’

To them this wasn’t odd … to them this was Tuesday.

Near my house is a nice series of slopes with an elevation change equivalent to about a five-or six-story building, and on one run I rounded this loop twenty-one times.

“There’s no such thing as a runner who comes home after a run and feels worse than when he left.”

“Sure,” Fisher replied. “You got twenty bucks?” “For what?” the startled runner asked. For crimes against humanity. For the fact that “white guys” had taken advantage of the Tarahumara and other indigenous people for centuries, Fisher would explain. And if you don’t like it, too bad: “I couldn’t care less about the ultra community,” Fisher would sa