Sublime

In less than a year, I’d traveled from quitting running to twentieth at nationals, then to sixth, and now, second among the Americans at worlds. It seemed as though when my mind talked, my body listened, opening me to progress. My plan was to keep making more.

‘An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.’

Roughly ten thousand male sprinters—a number that includes runners who’ll never catch a whiff of a world class men’s race—have personal best times in the 100-meters faster than the current women’s Olympic champion.