Inside Athletics

Running, particularly long distance running is one of those unforgiving sports. Unlike, say, tennis and golf, or soccer and other team sports - where sleight of hand or foot can disguise failing power or pace - running is a sport which cannot be faked. There is nowhere to hide.

If you?re not fit, you fail. And even if you are fit, once you start to go downhill it feels, well, it feels like uphill. You can choose your races judiciously, but as you get slower, you cannot fool yourself, for even if the pursuers do not yet overtake, Old Father Time, with his trusty stopwatch is there to remind you.

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