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The Kenyan Running Edition

Young runners in Iten train in packs, and through months and years of running with others they learn what different paces feel like, and become masters of the effort behind a specific pace. The faster runner sets the tempo and the slower one practices holding on. Think of the power of spending a season tucked behind someone relaxed and efficient.

— Colin
6d ago

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. The thing is to keep working, to go on making things, to let the making itself teach you what you need to know.

3w ago

It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will. A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.

3mo ago

The would-be athlete that hypothetically employs a machine to do all the 'menial' drills for them so that they can get to the really exciting parts of the game will, in fact, never get to them at all.

4mo ago

Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.

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