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“We often narrowly define happiness in running in terms of performance. I think that we should think in broader human ways about what success or happiness could look like in the sport. Sometimes there’s an immature rhetoric around sports, at least in the United States. We’ll hear things like ‘no pain, no gain’ or ‘pain is weakness leaving the body’—this glorification of suffering at any cost. I treat that and I ask questions like ‘What makes suffering good or productive?’ ‘Where are the lines there?’ I think those kinds of questions are important and not taken seriously enough in sports.” Read more...
Sabrina Little, Sportspersons & Sportswriter
