Quotation

Born to Run

a Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Who’s more committed to winning, after all: predator or prey? The lion can lose and come back to hunt another day, but the antelope gets only one mistake. === popping a blood blister between her butt cheeks with your fingernails; === Slice the top off a ’70s running shoe, and you had a sandal: the old Adidas and Onitsuka Tigers were just a flat sole and laces, with no motion control, no arch support, no heel pad. The guys in the ’70s didn’t know enough to worry about “pronation” and “supination”; that fancy running-store jargon hadn’t even been invented yet. === Mark Twain used to say. Zatopek found a way to run so that when he won, even other teams were delighted. === was Zatopek a great man who happened to run, or a great man because he ran? === “For inspiration,” the article noted, “he repeats a saying of the Tarahumara Indians: ‘When you run on the earth and run with the earth, you can run forever.’ ”