A couple fun quotes from the book I'm currently reading, "On the Run From Dogs and People" by Hal Higdon:
The race had been conducted despite a blinding snowstorm, which made it impossible to see more than five yards ahead. The runner sat on a bench next to Ed O'Connell, now a bureau chief for the Office of Economic Opportunity. For several minutes both competitors were too cold to talk. Finally the other runner turned to O'Connell and chattered through half-frozen lips: "Did you see those crazy people out there trying to drive in that weather?"
Arthur Lydiard has a test he uses on anyone who approaches him uncertain what event to run. "I take a flashlight and shine it in one of his ears," explains Lydiard. "If I see light coming out the other side, he's a marathoner."
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